Since I’ve sprayed the okra twice now with the chelated iron spray, it’s looking so much better and I’m thinking I might get some okra this year. It will make til a hard frost . . if it will just keep growing.
It’s funny how finicky some plants are. Everything will grow in the same spot except the okra.
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There are a couple of tomatoes that have sprouted up in the okra patch.
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In one part of the okra, a loofah from last year must have been left behind because there’s loofah growing everywhere. One of those things has a million seeds and it seems that every one of them sprouted in the okra patch.
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The first year we were here, I planted tomatillos. Plant those things once and you’ll have a lifetime supply. They come up everywhere and I always get enough to make green salasa.
Why is it that everything else finds the soil acceptable but okra wants to play hard to get?
Linda in NE says
Hmmm, maybe okra just isn’t supposed to grow in that part of Texas? You just never know about plants. For several years I had beautiful peppers. Last year they didn’t do a thing. This year they are in a different spot and still look kind of spindly.
JudyL says
I’m not sure anything, including humans, was meant to grow in this area. The temp here is ideal for okra but I have to water it a lot and our high pH water is just making my high pH soil worse. It’s doing great now that I’ve been spraying it with the chelated iron and it’s looking like there are some potential blooms trying to form. I’m hopeful.
barbara woods says
It’s picky , wont grown unless the ground is warm
JudyL says
I’ve grown okra for 30+ years (Louisiana native, remember?). I even grew it here before our pH got so out of whack.
By the way, if the ground gets any warmer around here, I think we’ll need the fire department. Seriously, okra is always the last thing I plant after waiting to be sure the ground is completely warm.