Garden Things

     Hard Okra:
I mentioned earlier how difficult (nigh impossible) it was to find a packet of okra seed late in the okra season last Spring To avoid such this coming Spring I decided to let my first okra go to seed. Bad idea on my part. I had plenty of small okra pods on my plants just the other week so I harvested what we refer to as a "mess" of them. Kids, they boiled up like a pot full of  hickory sticks!
     I reckon the lesson I learned is to harvest eating okra early and make seed from later pods.
The one good thing is that I've almost a quart of seeds already for next season and plenty to share with anyone who waits until the stores sell out.

      My other "garden thing" is all the dried out okra pods and other things I would normally just toss into my compost buckets have found a new process that makes them easier to break down. It is so simple that I am surprised hat I never thought of it before yet it makes the breakdown process so much faster. I set one small section of my back yard apart and every week or so I toss my soon to be compost there. Then I run it over with my lawn mower (with a bagger)... Then it goes into my compost buckets. The compostables then break down so much faster.

    If you compost, try it! You'll love it!