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CLAREMORE, Okla. — Mary, Mary rather contrary has thing connected Linda Compton.
The retired Claremore caregiver turned to gardening to enactment busy, increasing butternut squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers.
“I've got mammoth peppers, and there's thing comic going connected further backmost with different enactment of squash,” she said.
But it's this monolithic okra works that's the pridefulness and joyousness of her garden.
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“No, not successful a cardinal years did I ever deliberation it'd get that gangly and past I started looking it up and I said, ‘I’m going to acceptable a grounds here.’”
An mean okra works is 6-to-7 feet tall, and Linda said the existent satellite grounds is 10 feet 5 inches, but her okra is inactive going strong.
“We're astatine 11-foot-8, going for 12 feet,” she said astatine the time.
Planted from mean okra seeds she purchased astatine Walmart, Linda told 2 News Oklahoma she hasn't utilized fertilizer oregon chemicals.
The plants “love the Claremore dirt, tons of water, and 1 different thing."
“They similar my music,” she said.
Linda and her hubby measurement the works each 3 days portion she stands connected apical of a ladder.
Although the okra stands supra everything other successful her garden, nary 1 truly knows astir it. Just household and the cablegram guy.
“The cablegram feline started taking pictures due to the fact that helium said it doesn't turn that tall, not astatine all!” she said.
Right now, it's the Oklahoma upwind she’s disquieted could drawback her plants successful half.
Immediately aft the Coweta tornado, she texted Mike Brooks, excited the plants made it done the nighttime and present measurement 13 feet 6 inches.
Linda said she's officially submitted an exertion to Guinness World Records, “I haven't heard backmost but they said they needed 2 medias truthful here's one. So, you're helping maine out.”
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