OK....it looks like this thread lost a few pages in the last 'crash'...
It's Obama's fault !..... :P

Heres a picture of a 9 foot tall okra....not counting the height of the container...



It's growing in a 40 gallon container. The container has light weight shale. The container, along with several others, are fed system water by a pump on a timer. The pump runs for 15 mins...then the containers slowly drain back to a sump.