If you would like to know how to grow a big harvest of okra watch this video for my five top tips on okra growing!
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Love that okra!
I love small okra steamed until just tender and served with butter and salt. Yum! A favourite for sure. Thanks for the tips. Trying to grow it for the first time this year : )
You should try it in a Gumbo
Didn't know young leaves were edible until watching your video. Thanks
I am starting to grow different types of okra
Hey .. everyone Moniee-Mon, is listening thanks for the info vedios keep doing what'cha do best God bless ya!.
So spacing is def important with Okra???
Love your vidoes….God bless. Take care and stay safe
Great video. I love it my husband does not. I'm the cook, so looks like we're having okra for supper 🙂
The gooeyer the better.
Cokl
Okra is also considered to be healthy for neurological health. We eat it a lot in the Caribbean. With corn meal like a polenta style dish called fungi. Also cooked with rice. Good stuff.
Oh how I'd love to grow Okra! Not possible in often cold miserable wet Britain.
We will have to try the red-and-green okra again because I and two others definitely enjoyed the red okra much more than the grain but perhaps it was planted in a different area or something else so we will try it again to see if there really is no difference between both!
We found that the red ones had a little bit of a sweeter taste to them. Just the slightest more flavor is what we concluded.
Oh and we also found a little less mucus in the red ones it seemed like the walls of the pod were a little thinner.
My older relatives in North Carolina boil whole okra with salted pork and eat that slimy goo. As a child it made me gag, but now I crave it. And it thrives in our summers here in middle Tennessee, as soon as the nights stay consistently above 65 F, so I get huge returns with little work.
My 7 years old daughter eat it every day, saute with geera,carrots (cubes) green onions, saffron powder, pinch of salt…….yummy
Look into "Bradford Family Farms" Heirloom Okra from South Carolina in the United States. Family kept for over a century, they can get up to 8 INCHES before going woody/hard, tastiest variety I have ever tried; The wife and I love em sauteed, pickled, fried whole, even RAW after a rinse/scrub!
I always hated eating okra as a kid in Egypt but now I crave it! I recently picked up the red variety–didn't realize they turn green when cooked. Why do some vegetables do that? I have purple pod beans which do the same
Thank you
just planted some red burgundy here in the desert
This year is the first time Ive grown okra and it was from starts in a kiddie pool . I planted late so they escaped all the cold and rain early on and grew great. Yesterday I noticed I was very close to actually having okra. They grew so tall. This morning my first bloom came out and surprised me. The beauty took my breath away. It does look just like a hibiscus flower. I did notice in most videos that the okra started from the bottom of the plant and grew upwards. Mine are all at the top right now. But one video Hollis mentioned they love sun. Well the weather has been so scorching that they were wilting so I moved them to the shade and they have been wonderful since. Im wondering if being in the shade for a while caused the okra to just grow from the top. It appears to be slowing growing in the joints going down….but right now the biggest are at the top. First time Ive ever even seen growing growing close up. Im growing a few things Ive never grown before, beets, carrots, and spinach…on a small scale to get the hang of it. I had zucchini squash early but the scorching heat killed them and the pools they were in were too heavy for me to move. From now on I will grow more in containers so I can move them to the shade periodically. I love it…such a beautiful learning experience. I had a garden many years ago and had so much yellow squash I had to bring it to the soup kitchen. My family couldnt take anymore either…lol. Im retired now so this will be the wonderful wrap up of my days. I can see why Jesus spoke about gardens so much.
I had great success with okra when planting in manila, i had a few okra plants and they produced a lot of okras, sadly they died due to a huge typhoon which blew them away, but they were really beautiful!
Pan fry okra and tomatoes. The tomatoes cut the slime.
Hello. I live in Florida I used have red one i brought from India. Some how i lost the seed.Canu you share some seeds please. Thank you. I do have organic garden
I love slimy cooked whole okra! Yum!
my okra always fails for two reasons it seems … i plant too early .. and not enough sun
Picked up with eggs and sausage… one big snack jar
I grew up on Okra in Appalachian cooking but haven’t seen it much in Australia. This is the best advice I’ve seen for Okra in the Southern Hemisphere. Cheers!