Watermelon, Okra & Squash

[Texan]

Here are two shots of one of my baby watermelons. Note the golf ball

Here is a baby Okra

Here are some baby Squash

 

[HiDelight]

look at your babies!!!

next year I am going to start okra in the house and try grow it in a pot it is such a beautiful plant

I miss fresh okra

thanks for sharing!

 

[m.rogers]

looking good. is the 2x6 just for the pic or will you let the melon stay on it?

mike

 

[Texan]

looking good. is the 2x6 just for the pic or will you let the melon stay on it?

mike

Mike
Its a 1x6. I have considered leaving it. Do you think it will harm it? I know some of the watermelons are going to wind up in the dirt in between rows of other vegetables. I tried to get all the vines going in the direction as that one in the picture but some of them went towards the tomato plants.

Mjd

 

[TillinWithMyPeeps]

What does Okra taste like?

 

[blue skys]

hooray!! great pictures - My okra just started flowering, so okra here we come!!! yum!!

Andy123 Okra is hard to describe, they taste "green" (kind of like green beans - but not really) - some people are put off by the "slime", but if you batter them up with some corn meal batter and fry them - you can't beat them. They go in gumbo or even just get stewed up by themselves.

 

[Texan]

hooray!! great pictures - My okra just started flowering, so okra here we come!!! yum!!

Andy123 Okra is hard to describe, they taste "green" (kind of like green beans - but not really) - some people are put off by the "slime", but if you batter them up with some corn meal batter and fry them - you can't beat them. They go in gumbo or even just get stewed up by themselves.

It is possible to cook them without causing them to slime. It is discussed in detail on another garden forum.

 

[Dennis1979]

Looks like you are growing some pretty healthy golf balls there too. I always wondered where golf balls came from

Dennis

 

[chills]

YEA!!!!
im so jealous ..

 

[obsessed]

I am so jealous also. Out of my 7 plants not one watermelon. My ducks got them and ate all the leaves. The melons stoped growing after that. Maybe in the fall.