Worth's 2017 Accidental Garden.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

I have grown some of those called Scaloppini (?).
Didn't like the much. I think back and remember that they were too tough.

BTW: All okra seedlings planted out today:
LA Green Velvet
Baby Bubba
Emerald.

You have to pick them when they are small.
The darn things will get the size of a dish if you let them.
The one garden I had at another persons place.
That person was greedy and let all of my squash get huge and it was horrible.

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I meant to ask, are you growing anything in the octopuses garden this year?

Not behind the house it is too much shade.

Worth

[Worth1]

The okra is just starting to show signs of true leaves and I am on a snail killing spree.
We got an inch and one half of rain.
I want the sun to come out and run them back into whatever hell hole they came out of.

Worth

[Worth1]

Oh yes the tomatoes are doing great.
They are starting to grow big time.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

A few okra plants are up today out in the garden. None are in the raised bed yet.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Worth1

The okra is just starting to show signs of true leaves and I am on a snail killing spree.
We got an inch and one half of rain.
I want the sun to come out and run them back into whatever hell hole they came out of.

Worth

Worth, You are ahead of me.
My okra are still in cot leave stage, that is how I transplanted them from pot to ground, Even the I noticed long tap roots.

On the squash thing a lot of people think that bigger is better

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Worth, You are ahead of me.
My okra are still in cot lea. ve stage, that is how I transplanted them from pot to ground, Even the I noticed long tap roots.

On the squash thing a lot of people think that bigger is better

Bigger is not better those squash were horrible.

Today's warm weather bas just about put the okra in overdrive.
At this point in time I see no need for fertilizer in the bed I didn't fertilize.

It is my control bed.
I have three beds and will explain them later.
Worth

[greenthumbomaha]

The one year I grew okra transplants I had 4 people sized plants with no fruit. Never fertilized it, lesson learned.

- Lisa

[AlittleSalt]

Still none in the raised bed. The soil temp is 70 in that bed with lots of sun.

[imp]

I like the scallop squash- usually grow the yellow ones and pick them at about 2 inches across, young and tender.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Bigger is not better those squash were horrible.

Today's warm weather bas just about put the okra in overdrive.
At this point in time I see no need for fertilizer in the bed I didn't fertilize.

It is my control bed.
I have three beds and will explain them later.
Worth

After 3 days from planting the okra sprouts, they are still stuck at cot leaf stage.
The weather has been good, sunny highs reaching mid 80F and lows above 49F.

My previous bean seeds never came up. I think they rotted. So yesterday I planted some more between the corns. BTW, the corns doing good.

I think I am pretty much done w/ planting, except my 4 tobacco seedlings.

[Worth1]

Never had the yellow squash.

Never had okra not bloom.

I think you guys temperatures are a little cooler than mine.
I said I noticed true leaves about to come out not that they have big true leaves or anything.
One bed is heavily fertilized one has had peat mixed in from awhile back and one nothing.
Okra is supposed to tolerate more on the alkali side and I want to see if there is any difference.
Right now I am in a race with the snails and slugs.

[AlittleSalt]

Worth, what is your ground temperature? In the raised beds, ours is 70 degrees. I found this online -

'Okra seeds take 27 to 30 days to germinate in soil at 65 F. If the soil is 75 F, germination time is cut in half. You can speed up germination by soaking the seeds in cool water for 12 hours before planting.'

If the above is true - That would explain why my okra hasn't come up yet.

[Worth1]

Salt I cant find my thermometer.
It feels warm.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

I have an extra one. I'll PM it to you. We bought ours at HEB (Chefstyle)
It doesn't help that the recent rains were very cold ones.

[Worth1]

Salt I just got your thermometer in the PM.
The soil temperature is 87 degrees 3 inches down.

Worth