Thank you, David, LOL!
Mary,
Have your daughter contact me. I'd be glad to help out with the planting schedule.
Not that I'm a pro or anything, -- far from it. But, I've been working alongside other local gardeners to get the timing correct.
Tell her now is the time to start patio tomato seeds (plant out for long- & medium-season tomatoes is mid-February -- too late to start these seeds now -- go for the short-season varieties for plant out by March 1st); bell peppers (hurry, cause they need to go in early April, and they take awhile to get going -- they need heat) eggplants (same as for the bell pepper seeds - they need heat);
With adequate protection, tomatoes planted out mid-February (long- to medium-season varieties) will be ready for harvesting around mid-May. Most folks here don't put tomatoes out until April. By then, only the shortest varieties (cherries and patios, etc.) will have any hope of maturing before our "Hell Fires of Texas" heat moves in on them in July. I'm usually ripping out my tomato vines by mid-July, when others are just getting started...
The fall/winter veggie gardens here are TO DIE FOR!!!! Best season ever to grow veggies!!! That's MY season!!!
No mosquitoes, no stinkbugs, no aphids, no heat!
Houston has 285 potential growing days (as the crow flies).
She can grow the following (and then some): beets, broccoli, brussels sprouts, carrots, cabbages, collard greens, garlic, kale, lettuce, mustard greens, onions, radishes, spinach, turnips, etc. (this is my list -- there's much more to be grown!)
Linda
