Has your ground ever frozen down to -10 to -20 degrees? Then by May 15th it's up in temps just enough that you can break the soil down to 5-6 inches only? Then only by mid June you can stick a pitch fork in it?
By then, in the Last week of June all your plants could freeze in 1 to 2 days while a late frost passes through. So there's only July, August and possibly a smidgen of September; if the temps stay warm till "Indian Summer" hits (if it does at all).
Okra wants a long warm/hot season so getting them in peat pots (even the 5 inch ones) is the only way most Northerners can do it. Mine were nearly 3 months old at the time, under lights, well fed, watered and tall above the knee most of the time; before putting them out.
~* Robin
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