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I planted a (very messy) garden with the kids. Onions have come up. Squash seedlings have come up and produced some leaves, and decorative bulbs have come up. Other seeds may or may not have gotten washed away by a heavy storm, but I'm still somewhat hopeful it will produce something, anyway. Onions at least.
"Plant a bit of everything and see what happens" seems to be the right way to go if you have any kind of tough local climate/pests/fungi/etc. Our green beans grew great. Our okra next to them grew even better but went from "not yet ready to pick" to "basically wood" so fast that we only successfully harvested a fraction. Our vine plants mostly didn't sprout, except for some that sprouted and grew great and then suddenly died for no apparent reason. Our peppers grew very well; our tomatoes did the same, then came back on their own the next year, but didn't really fruit that time before a heat wave got them. Our parsley kept coming back, huger and huger, through heat waves and freezes, though I think this summer might finally finish it off. Etc. etc. I'd never have predicted any of that in advance ... except the peppers and tomatoes, I guess.
But I'm lazy and our planting season is tricky, so mostly I gave up and started with hydroponics. We still had the same problem with cucumbers (it's got to be fungi?) and of course it's a tiny garden, but it's wonderful for herbs, still good for tomatoes and peppers, and infinitely better for things like lettuce that can be hard to distinguish from the local weeds until they're big.
Okra varieties can be really different on size and edibility - I once planted seeds of one called, IIRC, Milsap White, and those pods were still good even at 8 inches long. Alas, the vendor I got it from no longer sells that variety, though I did get a different one this year that claims similar performance. I may or may not be able to verify that this year; my four-year-old likes to pick and eat raw pods when they're still quite small.
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