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9/1/2024 – Cut off 30% of old bear okra stalks. Larger older ones with few if any leaves had small green shoots that looked healthy given the fertilizing done a week or so ago and the inch of rain we had in the past week—first good rain since July 27. This is the first time […]
Continue Reading8/21/2024 – Sidedressed okra with 13-13-13. Watered it in. The splineless has been producing but now has few blooms. It has also been dry for 3+ weeks. Put the drip tube on them 2 days ago.
Continue Reading6/17/2024 – Sidedressed both rows of okra with 33-0-0 plus about 1 Tbsp/row of Borax per the 2024 Vegetable Crop Handbook for Southeastern United States. Used wheel hoe with wobble hoe to weed and blend in fertilizer. Thunderstorms possible this afternoon.
Continue Reading6/1/2024 – The first sowing partially came up in the second row from the east. Today they are 6-8 inches high and it rained slowly this morning. Where they did come up they are too close so needed to remove every other one. Used the hand trowel to scoop them out, placing it in my […]
Continue Reading5/17/2024 – The PEPH, after sowing twice with the seeder still has large gaps and in one row half the row is empty. The Kentucky Wonder bean row had very few coming up so filled in those wide gaps. The eastmost row of Clemson Spillass Okra hardly came but the second row did well so […]
Continue Reading5/16/2024 – As we had a 7″ rain day a few days ago and surely a lot of the fertilizer washed away, I side-dressed everything with 33-0-0 other than tomatoes, peas, and beans. The tomatoes are growing great so the plan is to side dress again when the first ones are ripe. Then plowed all […]
Continue Reading5/3/2024 – Predictions for the future sunrise low temps is in the low 70s. Sowed Clemson Spinless Okra in the eastmost two rows of the N½ using the No. 3 plate at ¾-inch depth with every other hole blocked with cellophane tape to put them in at 19/3= 8 inches apart. The plan is to […]
Continue Reading6/27/2023 – Side Dressed the okra with 33-0-0 after weeding. The cabbage plants we bought and the ones that came up that we sowed had been eaten badly. Decided not to spray them as the heat of summer will surely not let them produce heads. Will sow Kentucky Wonder Beans in the row this afternoon […]
Continue Reading5/7/2023 – Forecast low temperatures for the next 10 days is 68°. We received 1.3 inches of rain 48 hours ago and the row was pulled up over 13-13-13 when the pea rows were pulled on 4/29/2023. Sowed the eastmost row in the north half with Cajun Jewel Okra seed. Loosen the soil with the […]
Continue Reading8/30 & 31/2011 – We have finally had two good drying days after 19+ inches of rain this August. Disked around that Okra row in the north half and the Red Burgundy row in the south half on the 30th. The morning of the 31st there were about 4 okra pods from the Red Burgundy […]
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