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Brief garden update
Update #1: Okra! Aren't the flowers pretty? (You can also see one okra pod hiding behind the flower.)
Two plants aren't nearly enough. By the time we can collect enough for a side dish, some of the pods are so long they get woody and tough to eat. I'm trying to collect them as they mature now instead of waiting until there are enough to eat, but clearly the right solution is more okra plants, because this stuff is delicious.
I'm even willing to give up space for one cucumber plant (I really need to just admit that three is too many for our small household) and a couple of tomatoes, because even with only four of the six tomato plants producing, I pulled this out of the garden today:
That's five and a half pounds of various tomatoes (large brown one = Paul Robeson; small brown = chocolate cherry; yellow/pink = Garden Peach; red = Fourth of July), and there are plenty more lurking out there right now.
So next year: two cukes, four tomatoes, three basil, one parsley, a bunch of peas, and as much okra as I can fit in the remaining space. If you'd told me earlier this year I'd be willing to sacrifice my beloved tomatoes and cukes for more okra, I'd wouldn't have believed you ... but here we are.
Two plants aren't nearly enough. By the time we can collect enough for a side dish, some of the pods are so long they get woody and tough to eat. I'm trying to collect them as they mature now instead of waiting until there are enough to eat, but clearly the right solution is more okra plants, because this stuff is delicious.
I'm even willing to give up space for one cucumber plant (I really need to just admit that three is too many for our small household) and a couple of tomatoes, because even with only four of the six tomato plants producing, I pulled this out of the garden today:
That's five and a half pounds of various tomatoes (large brown one = Paul Robeson; small brown = chocolate cherry; yellow/pink = Garden Peach; red = Fourth of July), and there are plenty more lurking out there right now.
So next year: two cukes, four tomatoes, three basil, one parsley, a bunch of peas, and as much okra as I can fit in the remaining space. If you'd told me earlier this year I'd be willing to sacrifice my beloved tomatoes and cukes for more okra, I'd wouldn't have believed you ... but here we are.
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