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Tony, your garden looks terrific. It's starting to remind me of the huge gardens we planted when I was young. We picked and sold thousands of dollars worth of produce over the summer. That was in the late '50s and early '60s, so you know our garden must have been big. Heck! I can remember picking gallons and gallons of blackberries and selling them for $1 per gallon. Wow! How times have changed. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Your okra will probably be a little slow like mine was, but as soon as that soil warms up, it will pop right out of the ground and keep growing. The attachment is a picture of my okra at 8 weeks. )</font>
Times definately have changed. Most people nowadays don't want to fool with a garden and a lot of folk don't have time in their fast paced lives. You have some great lookin Okra, like they say , "everything in Texas is BIG". I planted some seed that the Okra was ordered from Texas years ago by an elderly lady near me. Its not the same as the Longhorn Okra we can buy at the seed store, It makes a huge stalk and the pods get very big and stay tender We save the seed from year to year. Most people around here pland the Longhorn and people who cant stand to pick okra because it makes them itch plants the Clemson Spineless, developed here by the local Clemson University. I dont like it because it gets hard very quick. If you don't pick it about every 2 days it is hard. I've seen pods of it hard and only a couple inches long. Good luck and happy gardening
Tony, your garden looks terrific. It's starting to remind me of the huge gardens we planted when I was young. We picked and sold thousands of dollars worth of produce over the summer. That was in the late '50s and early '60s, so you know our garden must have been big. Heck! I can remember picking gallons and gallons of blackberries and selling them for $1 per gallon. Wow! How times have changed. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Your okra will probably be a little slow like mine was, but as soon as that soil warms up, it will pop right out of the ground and keep growing. The attachment is a picture of my okra at 8 weeks. )</font>
Times definately have changed. Most people nowadays don't want to fool with a garden and a lot of folk don't have time in their fast paced lives. You have some great lookin Okra, like they say , "everything in Texas is BIG". I planted some seed that the Okra was ordered from Texas years ago by an elderly lady near me. Its not the same as the Longhorn Okra we can buy at the seed store, It makes a huge stalk and the pods get very big and stay tender We save the seed from year to year. Most people around here pland the Longhorn and people who cant stand to pick okra because it makes them itch plants the Clemson Spineless, developed here by the local Clemson University. I dont like it because it gets hard very quick. If you don't pick it about every 2 days it is hard. I've seen pods of it hard and only a couple inches long. Good luck and happy gardening
