On May 8, 9:50 am, "0tterbot" wrote:
"len garden" wrote in message

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g'day kylie,

we've always found okra easy to grow and get fruit from, always too
much too eat as once it starts producing picking is a dail affair.

now the ants may have bought aphids onto the flower buds and that
could cause problems with bud development.

maybe for the flowers that did open as normal they didn't get
pollinated yo may have shortage of bees etc.,?

can't quier remember but i think they have gnarly looking roots, but
just in case it is nematodes pre-treat anotehr planting spot and try
again, we have reciped for pre-treating on our remeidies page.

they do like to be well watered but we kept them heavily mulched.

so get a spot ready for next seaon.

hm, thank you everyone.

i am really thinking now that it wasn't consistently hot enough for them
(i'm not in sydney, tish - southern tablelands in fact, where the summer
maximum average is about the same, but it cools right down at night, and the
weather is really _variable_ e.g. we had a frost on christmas night!!!)

while we do have plenty of bees (and other pollinators) i can't recall if i
ever saw any on the flowers or not - i'd assume so, but who knows. i think i
got everything else as right as possible. we'll see what happens next year!

thanks for the cooking tips, dwayne and tish. i must say, i don't even know
what they taste like, as the slime just gets me. dh mustn't mind the slime
at all, but i do! if we actually get a crop next year somehow, we'll work
our way through that ;-)
ta!
kylie

It may not be warm enough, as you said. When I lived in Armidale
(northern tablelands NSW), things like okra were not even remotely
possible (in fact, it was too cold to even grow lemons, except meyer
lemons, which don't cut the mustard IMHO). Instead, you probably get
to enjoy such delicacies as gooseberries, greengage plumbs, asparagras
and other things which enjoy a proper winter chill.
Tish