How Does Your Garden Grow??????

A.K.A. Overgrowem said:

One article sez top Okra at 6' back to 4'. Another sez top at 18" and pinch tips(???). I would like a bushy plant with several heads. Advice from anyone who has been there, done that, would be greatly appreciated.

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I've never topped okra, so no help to you. Each limb will have a fruit, so as the plant gets taller the fruit is higher up. But the lower limbs do put on fruit too, so you have to look close, or you will miss some of those.

And judging from my sprouts, I did plant okra the other day. So much for my memory.

I still have my house guests. I've stayed at the camp as much as possible this week, but when at home, I've been in the garden.

What I think is okra sprouts. {I really need to take better garden notes} Will have to cull the weak ones.

My best sweet corn plant, and a couple of the young replants.

On the peas, the replants will be bigger than the originals any day now. I did a little hoeing a couple days ago. It was too wet to do much good, but I cleaned them all up a little more this morning. {after this picture was snapped}

Crimson Sweet replants. I have 7-8 hills.

The field corn is coming up pretty good. Will plant the pole beans between the corn plants the next good viney day.

A few tomato sprouts, but for the most part, nothing on the peppers.

Peppers in cups.



Peppers in pots.

14 sprouts from 14 beans. I have to put up a fence so I can grow these away from everything else {and the deer not eat them}.

I turned the dirt in my pepper pit. Still haven't transplanted the 3 bought Mammoth Jalapeno. They are blooming already.

too larry said:

My best sweet corn plant, and a couple of the young replants.

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do u plant the corn in rows or clumps?

thumper60 said:

do u plant the corn in rows or clumps?

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In rows. I used the little hand planter the first round. But the late frost did get a few of them. So I planted the skips by hand, and those are just now coming up.

too larry said:

My best sweet corn plant, and a couple of the young replants.

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your corn is bigger than mine..., lol...

gonna water the garden soon, will snap some pics.

Sour Wreck said:

your corn is bigger than mine..., lol...

gonna water the garden soon, will snap some pics.

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I only showed the biggest one. lol

Acorn squash.

Green beans popping good after the two rains we've had. I have some that came up a few days ago, but no good pictures of them.

No sprouts yet on cucumbers, Armenian cucumbers, zukes or squash.

too larry said:

I only showed the biggest one. lol

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yours is bigger

too larry said:

No sprouts yet on cucumbers, Armenian cucumbers, zukes or squash.

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my peanuts aren't up either. need to research that. might have planted too early.

Sour Wreck said:

my peanuts aren't up either. need to research that. might have planted too early.

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I saw this when I looked them up before. {the copy and paste thing}

Plant peanuts after the danger of frost is past. Peanuts require a soil temperature of 65 F for germination. Sow peanut seeds 1 to 1 1/2 inches deep and 6 to 8 inches apart.