Our First Texas Garden

From the minute we moved here over 6 years ago, we were told that unless you had a significant amount of land and a LOT of patience, you really shouldn't attempt to grow a garden, especially if you just moved here from Lindon Utah where our backyard was literally The Garden of Eden. So we haven't attempted anything, until now. This above picture is our attempt at growing green beans. We already had the pots from Del attempting to grow Christmas tree's??? I wanted some homegrown tomatoes - placed in a larger pot on the same day these three pots were planted. One day of the Texas sun and those littlest of tomato sprouts had withered and died. But I could tell, since Del is not a tomato fan, which of the pots were going to get the necessary TLC to survive the backyard heat. They don't look too bad for wear, but I'm not quite sure how we're going to divide the 7-8 beans it will harvest in 2-3 months between the three of us. I will venture that since Del is the favorite in the family, he will get the first bean..but after that, Kathryn and I are dividing the other 6 evenly; 3 and 3. I'm thinking that next year, we are going to make a SERIOUS and slightly expensive investment in making a raised/boxed garden - large enough for my tomatoes, some beans, green onions, cucumbers, lettuce, carrots and maybe some peas... just enough for one or two really good dinner salads. All that work will be worth it just to know that we grew it ourselves.
Happy Gardening!