What can you grow in a winter garden in Louisiana? LSU AgCenter offers advice on Louisiana winter vegetables.

There are many hot-weather vegetables that can be planted in May.

What can I plant in south Louisiana?Dan Gill is a reporter for The Times-Picayune.The heat of summer makes it necessary for vegetables to be planted in May.J.You can't have a Southern garden without okra.Southern peas.Southern peas are easy to grow.There is a sweet potato.It's a pity.The Luffa Gourd is a vegetable.Cucuzza.There is watermelon.

Some of the more popular leafy crops are Swiss chard, collards, spinach, mustard, turnip greens and lettuce.The greens of mesclun mix do well during the cooler months in Louisiana.cabbage and Chinese cabbage are some of the best leafy crops.

Many of the plants we can't grow in Louisiana need more cold weather in the winter.Gardeners are having good success with peonies in the far northern part of Louisiana.irises and forsythias grow well in north Louisiana but not in south Louisiana.