🍆🌱 Vegetable Gardening Requires Hard Work | Okra Updates 🌱🍆

It is not always easy for us to find time to tend to our vegetable garden. We do a few other things that sometimes take us away from the supposed daily routine to ensure that the crops are well maintained.

The most demanding of time and energy is pulling out annoyingly persistent weeds on a consistent basis. Weeds take the nutrients from the soil that the cops could otherwise use to grow and produce fruits. Once the weeds grow to a few inches long, it can get quite discouraging to continue gardening for a few reasons:

1. It gets more difficult to pull out having established root system.
2. Fear of snakes, frogs, and rodent that may be hiding.
3. Some grown weeds develop sharp edges, and can cause scratches that can get really itchy.

We've planned to clean this up today, but the rainy weather is not letting us. We might need to leave this task for the next weekend. Between pulling the weeds out, cleaning the area, and tilling the soil to be ready for planting can take one whole day.

With cleaning the garden not possible due to the inclement weather, we decided to start with gathering some of the large pots, cleaning them and filling them with potting mix in preparation for transplanting some okra from our seedling tray. If we manage to grow okra in these ten pots, we will have enough okra for the next three to four months.

I planted some okra seed for this post Growing Okra From Seeds w/ Pictures some 22 days ago. The photo below shows how they look like now. We should have transplanted about a week earlier.

After thinning the seedlings and leaving only the healthiest per slot, I started carefully removing the seedlings from the tray, making sure that I don't break the roots. The next steps are shown in the photo below.

1. Remove the seedling from the tray completely.

2. Transfer the seedling to the pot by making a four inches diameter, 3 inches deep hole.

3. Make sure to compact the loose potting mix around the base of the seedling.

Finally, water the newly transplanted okra seedling generously. In a couple of months expect free and organic okra.

Here are my other posts related to vegetable gardening:

Growing Papaya From Seeds w/ Pictures
Growing Okra From Seeds w/ Pictures
Growing Eggplant From Seeds w/ Pictures
Growing Our Own Food & Why We Are Doing It
Pagpapatubo ng Sili Mula sa Buto | Growing Hot Peppers from Seeds

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