It’s Okra Time

Okra / Ladies finger  - it is among the most heat- and drought-tolerant vegetable species  and will tolerate soils with heavy clay and intermittent moisture but frost can damage the pods – that’s the info that I got on the Google.

So what I did was got some seeds from the Floranaza Nursery located in Wakra near the Qtel roundabout, costed me around 4.50 QR.

Sowed all the seeds in a pot, around the end of June .

Since it was fighting for space, I transplanted it , when it has some leafs around the mid of July 

Transplanted on July 10 - 2013

Being a beginner and seeing the plants droop , lost hope and posted my first post in OTG , Many experts ,I would say, gave their comments .. Most of them did say the plant will pull up and don’t watch the pot boiling now!

So true it’s been a month now and I can say transplant works – Just add a bit of sugar water and make sure you don’t expose the roots to much of air and iyaṟkai (nature) will take care.

Still Growing - Aug 14 - 2013

Saw some lovely pearl /dew drop/sweats like thingy on the leaves – made me panic– so many people posting insects attack, this deficiency, that deficiency etc

 Don’t do anything its just making some changes, natural secretions from the okra plant through glands on the leaves and stems. This is a natural process of the plant and causes no damage. Leave it alone.

Okra Sweat's As you Sweat its normal !

But be careful not to brush too much against the plant or you’d have to deal with itchy skin.

Sep 01 2013 , first flowers blooming ...

Not a clear pic thou :) Need to develop some photographic Skills 

Oct 07 - After almost 6 to 10 flowers bloom - one of the okras seems to show 
up . That's when i get the whole concept , when it blooming , add the cows 
manure or some feed .
It took 3 months to grow from the initial sowing.

Hats of to the farmers who grow vegges in abundance , every time i say no to 
vegges while i eat , ill think of the patience , sweat , handwork , it took for the
farmers to grow each one of them ...