How to harvest okra (Harvesting full grown okra plant) and care for summer vegetable plants
How to grow okra, basil, aubergine, and etc in mulching cultivation. The focus for today is managing the growth of our okra, basil, aubergine, and etc plants. This time, I’d like to check the growth of the okra plant. Okra has been growing for about two months since planting, and it’s starting to enter the harvest season.
Best way to grow okra (Growing okra from seed) – How to grow okra from seed
How to plant okra from seed? Okra was planted in early June, and about two weeks later, the seedlings emerged.
https://www.vege-try.net/en/plant-peanut-and-okra-seeds-enIn late June, the okra leaves became crowded, so we thinned them out. For okra, thinning is done to three plants per hole in the mulch.
For the next month, I’ll take care of the okra. Once the first fruit grow large, I’ll harvest the okra.
Additional fertilizer for okra (Cultivation of okra) – Okra plant care
We fertilize the okra when harvesting the first fruit. As okra is entering its full harvesting season (full grown okra plant), we’ll fertilize to ensure it doesn’t run out of nutrients.
For okra, fertilize once between the plants. The fertilizer used for okra fertilization is chicken manure, with a quantity of 30g (1 oz).
Turn over the mulch, dig a hole about 10cm (4 inches) deep, and apply fertilizing.
After that, water the chicken manure that has been fertilized, cover it with soill, and put back the mulch. We water the fertilizer because it helps it decompose faster in the soil. (For soil microbes, wet fertilizer decomposes more easily.) The fertilization for okra is finished.
Summer vegetable care (Thinning basil, pinching eggplant, and etc)
Next, basil care. We thin basil planted next to tomato from 4 plants to 1.
We planted basil seeds in early July.
The aubergine has grown to a height beyond the support stakes, so we’ll pinch off the tops.
The cucumber’s female flowers turned yellow, but new fruits have started to grow again.
The cucumber’s female flowers turned yellow about a week ago.
Following is the video for how-to. English subtitles are available.