Texas Gardening: Did anyone else have hail damage last night?, 0 by hrp50

hrp50 wrote:
Hail storm, part deux:

Today we had our second hail storm in Carrollton this spring that left an accumulation of hail stones on the ground that were a little larger than pea-sized, more like pinto bean-sized. In the picture you can see the white hail stones contrasted by the black soil. Luckily it caused no noticeable damage.

If you notice in the foreground of the raised bed there are some small okra plants. I looked back at my post on April 18th when I mentioned that my okra had germinated and were a inch or so high. They remained that same height, not growing a millimeter, until last Wednesday,almost five weeks later, when they suddenly decided to put on their true leaves and take off growing. I guess they just weren't going to grow until the temperature was right since okra does like hot weather. I was beginning to think that I might be asked to turn in my license to practice gardening because I couldn't grow okra, probably the easiest thing to grow in Texas