DutchDutch said:I need to plant a decent amount of okra. I only maybe 1 okra per plant per day, and it only really stays in the fridge one day, so I'll probably plant 6-10 so I can pull off 8 one day, 8 the next, and eat it fresh...

Have you ever and veggie ever picked okra? Just wondering. If not, then you might want to rethink this decision.

DutchDutch said:Well, out of the 4 okra plants I planted last year (first year I planted okra), 2 died, and the other 2 peaked at only an okra, maybe two per day. Are you saying that my variety of okra was underperforming?

Nah, just saying that I hate, hate, HATE picking okra. Unless you are wrapped head to toe in clothing then you itch like crazy.

August in Arkansas isn't condusive to wearing jeans, long sleeved shirts and gloves.

i put in radishes one year, but one of my neighbor's friends kept picking the leaves and eating them. thus, the radishes never grew.

Do crocus's only bloom once?

I try to grow plants, but I'm not very good with that either. I have managed to keep the plant that SSGSepo bought me when I was in the hospital a few years ado alive, but I'm not sure how.

I bought a really pretty spring flower thingy a few weeks ago. A paperwhite daffodil, the card says. I thought, oh, it'll be so pretty when it blooms and it will make my house smell like spring.

Um. No. It bloomed and I walked in from work that day and thought "What in the HELL is that smell? I took the trash out this morning and Thurzday's litter box is clean!" I walked all through the house, sniffing everywhere.

I finally deducec that the only thing new in my house was the plant. I moved the plant to the bar and gave it about an hour, sure as shit, the smell was now in the bar and out of the kitchen.

I have NEVER smelled a daffodil like that. My friend, L bought one too and I told her thank God we didn't buy one for someone as a gift.

The Aerogarden is Bob's buffet.

Sepo71 said:Do crocus's only bloom once? nope. they come back year after year.

Hey, Seeps, here's a pic of my Arkansas garden a couple years ago. See the tomato plant in the grey tub sorta in the middle? Right behind it is a broccoli plant (with more in the row behind it). The broccoli head grows straight out of the top, then when you cut it, it makes side shoots you can also cut.

And Jen, I grew upside-down tomatoes the year before that. They worked fine but need water more than the ones in the ground do. I planted peppers in the top of the buckets.

I always have started from little plants from the store. Our soil sucks though. My garden now consists of two big planters with basil in it, but my mom just gave us a hanging tomato plant. It will look nice by the basil in the yard.

We get a sun all afternoon in our yard, so it has to be watered a lot, and with swim practices and the pool, I don't always remember. One of these days I'm going to attempt a bigger garden again.

If I remember correctly, Matt grows a lot of veggies in his yard.

DutchDutch said:Really, just take your veggie peelings throughout the summer and throw them in a bin under the sink. When it's full, dig a hole in the dirt, dump the peelings, cover. Lather, rinse, repeat all summer. The next year your soil will be so much better.

Oh, I should have explained. Our "soil" is clay. Hard as rocks when dry, sucky like cold modeling clay when wet. It would take a ton of work to dig out an area and get real soil put in.

traveller said:Try Lasagna Gardening.

That's kinda cool.