Not getting much help here on this garden thread :rolleyes:
Well here is my one volunteer Sunflower :D
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Ripe and ready cherry tomatoes :clap:
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Beautiful sunflowers!
Those tomatoes are making me want to go and make up a big salad! I think I will! I hope I have some that taste as good as those look!:D

I want to see an "Okra Update" there Isaac!!! :D Inquiring minds want to know!

and so you have the update rhertz. I picked this morning and it was a bit hazy out but this shot will show you how life giving rain can get these girls to grow.

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LOL, just don't eat so many okra that your socks slide down! :D

You pick that okra and you will get the itchy bug itch and you better wash those hands twice.

Etymology, origin and distribution
The name okra is of West African origin and is cognate with "ókùrù" in Igbo, a language spoken in what is now known as Nigeria. The species is occasionally referred to by an early, now incorrect synonym, Hibiscus esculentus L.


Okra flower bud and immature seed podThe species apparently originated in the Ethiopian Highlands, though the manner of distribution from there is undocumented. The Egyptians and Moors of the 12th and 13th centuries used the Arab word for the plant, suggesting that it had come from the east. The plant may thus have been taken across the Red Sea or the Bab-el-Mandeb strait to the Arabian Peninsula, rather than north across the Sahara. One of the earliest accounts is by a Spanish Moor who visited Egypt in 1216, who described the plant under cultivation by the locals who ate the tender, young pods with meal.

So okra is really not in the Hibiscus family? The flower looks sort of like a hibiscus.

Do we have any fall gardens ? I have mine all planted. Still has a way to go before I will have new photos. This is a photo of last years broccoli. I have multiplying onions,spinach,lettuce,turnip greens,carrots and radishes.

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That would be old Chester on rat patrol in the garden.

Go on Isaac. All I have is okra, basil, mustard greens and 5 rows of Spinach, the kind without salminella.

I am surprised you still have okrie. Where is rhertz with his green thumb ? :D

No collards, no mustards, no turnips... No peas or brocoli, or any cold weather crop. I'm off my game. All I have are some fast riping peppers. I'm in Jalapeno heaven here.... Maybe it isn't too late for some brocoli or carrots....

Fall is in the air and in the garden. I thought there were some gardeners on this board :confused::confused: Well lone wolf is still tilling the ground. I have a few photos of broccoli and turnip greens. I grow the greens for some of my friends that is one thing I will pass on. Love that chopin broccoli :D
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notice the multiplying onion mixed with the broccoli.

Good lookin' Greens Son of Abraham. Mine are just stretching out of the ground, but they be as many as the sands on the beach. I'm still getting Peppers. By the way it's Satsuma time.

I believe those awesome tomatoes are available again as well at the Ag Center, along with the satsumas!:)

LSU has very nice tomato's. The tomato's come in a five pound box and cost 10.00 a box. Satsuma's are very good too. LSU grows them in south LA.

CITRUS SATSUMA (GROS SUJET)
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I just called LSU Ag center and the lady said that the Satsuma's will not EVER be sold again because Katrina wiped them out. :( They will have the tomato's through Christmas.