Homestead Mini Update - Wednesday 9-25-24 - SEE DESCRIPTION FOR MORE INFORMATION -

[@Maggie-Gardener-Maker]

Thank you for stopping by. The thumbnail of this video is of an okra that I am growing this year in a container. The name of the okra is "Louisiana 16 inch long pod okra" that I bought from Baker Creek Seed Company, here is the link www.rareseeds.com/okra-louisi... The growing information states that they are tender up to about 10" and I did eat the one in the video Wednesday night after I recorded this video 9-25-24. It was tender and delicious! I added it to some brown Jasmine rice with fire roasted tomatoes, onions, and peppers that I had made a couple days ago. The large green leaves on plant in front of the shed with porch are commonly known as Rice Paper Plant, the botanical name is Tetrapanax papyrifer; you can read more about this plant at plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/tetrapanax-papyrifer/ The sunchokes (Helianthus tuberosus) growing in compost corral got growing from some cast off ones that were tiny tubers from a harvest I had tossed in there last winter. I mentioned my roselle in container this year, and I started to say I would put the link to videos of last year Roselle plants, here are two videos and they show my Roselle and Lemon grass out in the back garden. • Roselle is BLOOMING | and • Garden Tour | Roselle Update | see description for the links. The bamboo shown in this video is clumping bamboo not the running kind. I love that bamboo and only had a few pieces that I brought from old homestead and I was so worried it wouldn't take hold. I laid it horizontal in the ground and buried it about 3" deep. The yucca plants you see in video also came from my homestead, they were just small ones that I pulled out and brought up to my current homestead. The first year (2021) that I moved up here it was late fall when I moved them up here and I just dug a shallow furrow and put them in it then covered with them leaves and such. I was so happy when in the spring of 2022 they came to life. They originally came from a small plant that my mom kept trimmed and in a small pot in her house. She gave that plant to me around 1995 and I planted it in my yard at my old homestead where over the years it multiplied a thousandfold. In the video I show some lemongrass potted up, I grow that in the back garden, I have a tremendous amount growing in the ground along side the Helianthus tuberosus (sunchokes) also known by some people as Jerusalem artichokes. I mentioned in the video that I placed that board on the branches of my azalea bushes. I didn't explain that I did that hoping to root some so I can place them at other places on property. They would make a great hedge on the side where the old rotting fence that belongs to my neighbor.

[@que-stead-que1717]

Great job on the okra 😊. Thanks for the update everything is looking great 😊.