![]() For each type you want to plant, determine the germination time, the time it needs to grow big enough to transplant, and the time to harvest. They 'fix' nitrogen (pull it from air and store it in the earth). You could sow a cover crop of rye or clover that you will till in in spring. Now is the time to add organic matter to the soil so it can rot all winter and build up your soil structure. Nothing you have can be planted out overwinter. Now I'm not saying that doctors aren't needed just that you have to have an open mind and look at the other options also! and yes I'M A TREE HUGGER! hahahahahh dj Which they don't need at the time which cause supperbugs. example colds people automatically ask for antibiotic. Too many of the people rely on synthetic drugs, (which all started with two really great sales men), that have side effects or are taken wrong. Also my Uncle who owned his own pharmacy told me every medicine came back to herbs, leaves, roots, tree barks, molds, fungus's. I was taught by and old indian woman when i was young how to gather herb and such, only taking what i needed and to give back to the planet. ![]() Pesticides hurt our environment i.e., bees and other creatures like us! I was raised in the nursery business and used to hate it as a child, but learned to love it and nature and the miracle of herbs and their healing properties. lived on property for 30 years (no pesticides) No chemicals (free range chickens), We all need to be responsible for our planet. next want to work with areo ponics which is what NASA uses so i've heard. the water barrel is now inclosed in foam and the water stays cool enough to do hydroponics, we also bought and grew hydroponically in gutter system. in florida the poor fish cooked and was sad. it was really great, however when the intense heat of the summer came the fish were in the pond and with no shade. Aquaponics - we grew the duck weed to feed the fish, the fish fed the plants and the plants fed us. My question is whether anyone else is suffering from the same predicament and whether I should just mow the stuff down and start over with new seed. He thinks this Okra that I have is possibly the same strain that he had in the problem year. He and the other farmer successfully sued the supplier and won the case because of their loss of income. He said that there is a strain of Okra apparently bred for cooler climates that just does not produce until cooler weather and maybe never. The bought commercial seed and it turned out just like mine is now. My friend who grows Okra commercially stopped by a couple of days ago and mentioned a problem that he and a fellow farmer had some years back. I use a soaker hose and regularly water them. ![]() At planting, I fertilized them with 5-20-20 and later side dressed with 10-20-10. ![]() The seed was planted on May 31 and within a week the plants were showing and growing. I do not remember where we got the seed but the plants came from Lowes. We have gotten 4 or 5 pods from the transplanted ones but absolutely no sign of anything on the ones planted from seed. The plants are all extremely healthy in appearance, about waist high and fully leafed out to the point that they look like shrubs. We have 3 Okra plants that were bought as plants and set out in the garden and a 60 foot long row of Okra that was grown from seed. ![]()
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