as a matter of fact are there any good charts anywhere for approximately when to plant various vegetable plants?

Welcome to Texas! There's a LOT of good information on this site to not only get you started, but will help you along as more questions come up. The forum is a little slow right now compared to spring, but I'm sure you'll be getting some more tips.

Wishing you the very best in your gardening endeavors.

Here is a link that might be useful: Plant answers ...

thank you very much, we carefully picked where we ended up to settle in knowing we wanted to end up in Texas for quite a few years and we love it here

Welcome!

The good news is- you can put away the snow shovel, but not the jackets. In a couple of years your blood will be so thinned out you'll be grabbing a sweater when it gets to the low 70's :-)

You're right about the planting time frames being very different. A lot of people use planting guides from the extension office. I like the one on Fanick's nursery too. The website is linked below.

I've lived in a few parts of SA, but not in Live Oak. Have you dug in the yard at all? There's this rocky stuff they call caliche in a lot of the city. If you have that you pretty much have to build/construct some kind of raised bed. There was a pretty good thread that talked about some things to think about.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/txgard/msg0313094626705.html

When you look at where you put your garden make sure you have access to water hoses. You'll need them.

Also there is a plant swap Oct 12. You should come if you have time. There's a whole lot of nice people and very experienced gardeners you could connect with. But feel free to post questions regardless.

Lisa

Here is a link that might be useful: Fanick's gardening calendar

thank you i'll be checking out those links

and looking for a sweater

we already have planned to do raised bed .. never done it before but we have done something similar in that we had a garden area emptied out once and refilled with nice garden soil