Okra...

[ol hippie]

I bushhogged everything to get ready to plant a second crop of peas....everything except a 100' row of okra. My okra has been about a foot tall for a long time. Anyone have any ideas why it's not growing?
   Don

[texasfarmer]

Possible problems.....lack of fertility,moisture,compacted soil,to much shade ,to close to tree roots,disease such as cotton root rot,or root knot nematodes.Hard to tell from here.My okra grows a foot a week.

[Rajun Gardener]

It needs to be sidedressed with nitrogen and watered in.

[tbird]

  Okra requires very little fertilizer. Stunting of Okra is seldom due to lack of nutrients.  Okra likes a well aerated soil and packing th roots tight will tend to prevent it from growing well.  Also it doesn't like wet or continually damp soil.  It comes from the hot dry plains of central Africa and that is what it likes best.  Loose, dry soil.  I would cultivate as best I could around it to loosen the soil.

  Nematodes?  Possible.  Pull one and look at the roots.  If the roots are not uniform in length and continually tapered but instead malformed with knotty looking growth and twisted looking, chances are you are a victim of nematodes.

[ol hippie]

I lightly sidedressed it with 8-8-8 day before yesterday and watered. Got 1/10" of rain yesterday. They look good, dark green, but just not growing. Will hoe around them tomorrow to loosen the dirt around them. I don't think with this sandy soil I have watered to much because they will wilt during the day. My wife says I'm babying them to much.