Last time we had ended on a sweet note of your beautiful round bed with

zinnias and peppers together and that got me thinking like there are some

unique plantings in your garden and also in my

garden that I've tried this year and I figured let's share a couple different

groupings so I could start it off because I started something new kind of by

accident so I'll take credit for it though.

Put a couple rows of okra down in a in-ground bed so I have two rows of okra, they're growing really nicely.

At one point I noticed that a companion cucumber emerged.

And I was like, you know what?

I don't know what that is, but let's see what happens.

And now it's filled out the entire bottom of my bed,

providing live mulch, and it's now fruiting.

So I'm getting cucumbers down low,

okra from above, no competition, no issue.

Because okra doesn't like shade the ground that much it tends to have like a couple big leaves so there's plenty of light coming down and now I've been able to get that sweet sweet okra and the cucumbers which both do well in the heat and you're making use of the ground and the sky at the same time.

So kind of an interesting one. But I think like anything sprawling underneath the okra you could almost think of it as like a three sister style

because it's tall it's rigid

and it doesn't cast too big of a shadow. That's a good point. Ochra does grow

weird. Yeah I will say like it grows it can grow very tall but it is a bit

spingly. It's not like bushy what's what's actually off Like it grows it can grow very tall but it is a bit spindly.

It's not like bushy.

What's what's actually odd about okra to me just

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