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I use the coriander as a spice all the time. Great for pork rubs and soups. I grind it in a pepper mill though it still always needs cooked to break down the husk a bit.

You don't really have to cut them back, but once the leaves get to be full sized you might as well cut and use them as they just end up shading the other new leaves if you don't, and start to degrade. When it bolts the new leaves will also be a different shape and in my opinion, a little bit...

^ Even if the plants stay over soil they may be a lot hotter than if placed elsewhere. Asphalt in summer sun can get hot enough to cook an egg. If the space must be used I would cover the entire area with soil... but really, if it's not going to be a court anymore the blacktop might as well...

Plants don't get colder than the actual temperature either. Wind chill is mostly limited to warm blooded animals, though the wind can remove the heat radiated from the soil below at a higher rate.

Granular fertilizer should last longer. You can get a higher concentration, put down less, and have it leech into the ground slower with rain or watering. What it can't do well is foliar feeding rather than burning leaves if applied when they are wet.

If you put only soil for the hills on blacktop you will probably end up with cooked plants considering how hot it gets in your zone... unless you wait till fall to do it.

I always put stakes in right after they go into the ground. It marks the spot so people don't trample on them, and provides an obstacle that critters might walk around too, decreasing the chance the plant is disturbed, plus doing it early means you don't disturb any of the roots like you might...

My pepper plants respond well to a few doses of magnesium sulfate., though my primary intention is to give them more magnesium.

Pretty amazing if you had any less than 3x the rain we saw here, though I'm doubting it's worth the trouble to get it in the ground this late into the season, looks like it's supposed to get down to freezing there tonight or tomorrow night.

It seems there is no mention that the control group fed a "standard diet" was fed an equal quantity of non-GM corn. The validity of the study could hinge on this variable.

If they're inside or it at least gets fairly warm during the daytime then any that were full sized for a week or two may manage to ripen before drying out or rotting. Full sized doesn't necessarily mean the full size of prior peppers, their own individual full size may be smaller at the end of...

^ I'm guessing it was just due to the preparation or cooking, all the okra I know about are very low in fat and carbs.

I just found it odd that it only happened, and happened so quickly, right after a lot of rain following a drought. I had been watering it regularly, but I'll see how it goes as our annual grasshopper onslaught is beginning now.

^ It looked pretty good for a while but that okra is now about 8 foot tall and the leaves don't cover the stalks anymore and it's wanting to spread onto the driveway. I have to top it off soon, not going to get a ladder out every day to pick okra.

Primary camera on a road trip, phone camera is not too good... This is not on all the plants and only on the southeast facing side of the stalk where present.

After a long drought we finally had ~ 4" of rain within 48 hours from the hurricane the south saw, and now I'm seeing what looks like a red colored mildew on one side of the main stalk of some of my okra plants, the side the sunlight hits most but none on the leaves or pods. Is this anything...

^ Burmese does, not sure about Cow Horn.

At first the weather reports were suggesting up to 5" inches of rain here, but so far only 1/2". I'd been watering regularly so I didn't see an increase in # of okra pods but the ones I picked today have a higher diameter to length ratio and a little faster growth rate in general despite less...

^ Maybe Burmese or Cow Horn, both stay tender till longer in length.

^ I know what you mean. Sometimes it seems as though I've picked them all, taken them in the house and came back outside only to find more already grew enough to be picked. I don't dry any, usually freezing what I don't eat or give away. Does anyone know what is making a few of mine look...