If you wonder what vegetable you can plant in the dead of a Texas summer, this is the one! Okra loves it hot. Although other vegetable seeds may sprout and grow, most vegetables won't set fruit in hot weather. That's why spring and fall gardens are planted here in Texas. It's time to plant fall vegetable gardens. Now is the time to plant to get a crop of green beans - there are about 90 days left until the first frost. Anything that can grow and fruit within 90 days can be planted now. It's a little too early to start winter vegetables in my opinion even though the stores are selling them. I wait until October to plant broccoli, cauliflower, kale, etc.
I planted this okra in the Orchard because I'm letting the Vegetable Garden rest. Okra has beautiful flowers - it is in the hibiscus family, and the flowers look like hibiscus flowers - very ornamental. It gets very tall, but it will produce okra pods before it reaches it's final height.
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