On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:48:25 -0500, Terry Coombs >
wrote:

>On 6/5/2018 9:04 AM, wrote:
>> A guy I know in Miss. said he doubted there was enough real hot weather here for okra.
>
> * Where is "here" ? I'm in North central Arkansas , and it's been in
>the 80's here for a few weeks now . My okra was planted kinda late to
>let the soil get nice and warm , there's like 20+ plants out there now ,
>about 3" tall . I expect them to start producing around the first week
>of July , and keep on until sometime in September or October . As long
>as you keep it picked , it'll keep producing new pods . I usually get
>tired of picking them around the middle of September and leave the last
>few pods for seed .

"here" appears to be "Miss"issippi".

I grow okra here in northern NY, no problem other than occasionally
I'll miss harvesting some so they grow too large and then they are
tough/woody... once okra become over six inches they are only good as
dildos. Some of these okra grew too large... check out my UFO patty
pans:
https://postimg.cc/image/5zqtfjemv/
I tried to patent this Korean eggplant:
https://postimg.cc/image/e6nekv1t3/