too larry
Well-Known Member
My wife doesn't eat okra, and she cooks it for me almost everyday.i liked that for your persistence, not for the okra
How Does Your Garden Grow??????
- Thread starter Larry {the} Gardener
- Start date
too larry
Well-Known Member
Okra doesn't like cold nights at all. Northern gardeners are at a disadvantage when it comes to growing okra.I successfully grew Okra here in Portland Oregon. It's not well suited for growing here but I thought I'd give it a try. The results are not that great but I learned quite a bit. I made many mistakes.
Next year I'm confident I'll be able to get a worthwhile crop. I have a very short window of adequate day and night temperatures for it to grow well so next year I'm not even going to bother with it until those temps are warm enough. I planted too early and incorrectly so the plants just stayed stunted and many just died. If I can get enough next year for a couple batches of Gumbo I'll be happy.
too larry
Well-Known Member
I got about two thirds of my compost spread yesterday. Used the boxblade, and it worked pretty good. Not really even, but I got it done. This morning I cut it in with the disc. I thought I had it pretty good and took the disc off the tractor. But the corn stalks and grass didn't cut up as good as I thought. I did have enough done right that I was able to lay off some rows after lunch today.
too larry
Well-Known Member
I dug pepper trench number three today. 30 gallons of mushroom compost with the following amendments added:
1 cup 5-5-5 EcoScraps
2 cups 4-3-4 Holly Tone
5 cups coffee ground compost
1 cup lime, crushed
1 cup line, pellets
1 cup Gypsum
1 cup soil acidifier
2 cups Epsom Salts
The plan is to transplant my mini sweets on Sunday or Monday.
1 cup 5-5-5 EcoScraps
2 cups 4-3-4 Holly Tone
5 cups coffee ground compost
1 cup lime, crushed
1 cup line, pellets
1 cup Gypsum
1 cup soil acidifier
2 cups Epsom Salts
The plan is to transplant my mini sweets on Sunday or Monday.
xtsho
Well-Known Member
I really like Okra. I don't know what I'm going to do with the one Okra I grew but it better turn out good.
I know. But fortunately Okra grows fast when the temps are right. We had an extremely hot summer with warm nights this year. I had enough time to get it done but didn't have the knowledge I needed to grown Okra. I've spent hours of research and I know what I need to do. Next summer I'm definitely going to be harvesting some Okra. Now I get to wait for a year.
I'm jealous of the space you have. I keep telling my girl I'm going to sell my house and buy some property out in the sticks. Now might be the right time to cash in on the insane property values and get out of the rat race. As long as I have internet I'll be good to go. And then I'll have a reason to buy a tractor.
socaljoe
Well-Known Member
The cucumbers are picking up steam. I've seen a lot of growth in the past 6 days. I've been plucking secondary vines and fruits off to encourage vegetative and root growth, once they all start climbing I'll begin to let the fruits go but will maintain plucking sucker vines to keep them to one stem.
The Kratky hydroponic tomatoes are alive, but I messed up with my initial approach. I had them in seedling pots with coco, and by combining the two approaches, I think I was slowing things down as the roots would have to establish in the media before growing into the water. So I've switched them up to rockwool cubes...fortunately the roots were small enough to directly uproot without damage (I'm pretty sure). So now they either live and thrive or they die and I start again.
The Kratky hydroponic tomatoes are alive, but I messed up with my initial approach. I had them in seedling pots with coco, and by combining the two approaches, I think I was slowing things down as the roots would have to establish in the media before growing into the water. So I've switched them up to rockwool cubes...fortunately the roots were small enough to directly uproot without damage (I'm pretty sure). So now they either live and thrive or they die and I start again.
Last edited:
too larry
Well-Known Member
Here is my garden from space. You can see the new waterlines to the north that I had just laid {5 spigots per line X 3 lines}. This was 2-3 years ago. I have several fruit trees growing in that area now.
And be cautious buying tractors. It's addictive. I have 3 and I'm always on the lookout for the next one.
socaljoe
Well-Known Member
Looking good Larry.
The weather forecast for my area is looking good so far, temps are projected (for now) to be in the middle 90's, which is great. Last year around this time, we were up in the high doubles and low triples for a lot of August and even into mid September. Hopefully it cooperates and I'm able to get a nice, productive latter third of summer and most of fall.
The weather forecast for my area is looking good so far, temps are projected (for now) to be in the middle 90's, which is great. Last year around this time, we were up in the high doubles and low triples for a lot of August and even into mid September. Hopefully it cooperates and I'm able to get a nice, productive latter third of summer and most of fall.
too larry
Well-Known Member
I have a picture from a few days ago. Looks like 10 of 15 on the Armenians. The others are down to just one now.
too larry
Well-Known Member
I hope so. I've gone two days without rain. If that keeps up, maybe the seeds I'm planting tomorrow will have a chance. I just took a closer look at my moon signs, etc. Tomorrow and Monday are both good planting days, but the full moon is tomorrow, so Monday would be a Root day.
socaljoe
Well-Known Member
I'm seeing a bunch of little 1/4-1/2 cm long cukes popping up all over my new plants...and I swear they've grown since I looked at them this morning. I'm not into counting my chickens before they hatch, but something would have to go very wrong for me to not get a bumper crop of cukes.
too larry
Well-Known Member
I saw a few that size, but there was at least one a couple of inches long. Lots of blooms on the Armenians, but still no fruit setting.