This Okra Doesn't Get Tough!
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- Tired of growing okra that gets tough after it gets just a few inches long? We'll show you a dwarf okra variety that stays tender even at 10-11" long. This provides for a longer harvest window and allows you to get more okra per harvest because the pods are larger.
We'll also be harvesting a couple heirloom tomatoes for some delicious okra and tomatoes over rice. Lastly, we'll venture over to our giant pumpkin patch and check on our giant butternut squash and Atlantic giant pumpkins.
0:00 Intro
0:35 How Far Apart Should You Plant Okra?
1:06 Why Do We Like This Okra Variety So Much?
2:17 How Big Can These Okra Pods Get?
5:08 Following Garden Rule Number 41
6:10 How to Train Giant Pumpkin Vines
10:06 Weighing Our Giant Butternut Squash
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0:00 Intro
0:35 How Far Apart Should You Plant Okra?
1:06 Why Do We Like This Okra Variety So Much?
2:17 How Big Can These Okra Pods Get?
5:08 Following Garden Rule Number 41
6:10 How to Train Giant Pumpkin Vines
10:06 Weighing Our Giant Butternut Squash
I grew up on okra and tomato stew over rice. Later I discovered fried okra, which I crave from time to time. What really got me growing my own okra was making hot pickled okra... and I fry some, too. It's the bomb!
Me too! My grandma would can okra and tomatoes also, and we would eat it over rice. Such great memories. Yum yum!
Are your hot pickled okra slimy?
@deanl4193 not mine! Heat the brine, pour it into a jar that has been stuffed with raw okra garlic and hot pepoers, stick it in the fridge, wait a week.
Save the big ones for seed if they get away from ya! Always do that at the end of the year. We jar okra an mater's every year. 😊
Cowhorn is all we knew in Western NC, Cherokee County.
Yes, indeedy. Some seasoned stewed tomatoes and okra over white rice is it!!! Yum!
Growing up, the closest I got to tomatoes and okra together is in gumbo. Never had it on rice. But we were into fried okra back in the day, and that's how I fix it now whenever I grow it on my lil' patio. 😄
I made the tomatoes and okra recipe last year for the first time and it was my favorite garden meal of the summer. Getting some small okra starting on the plants now here in Ohio after a cold start to summer. Can’t wait!!!
Travis everything is looking so wonderful. I’m having the best garden ever. It’s true the soil you put your plants in is the key. Thanks for sharing your experience and gardening with us ❤️🙏
Bought the seeds from you last year. I am loving the dwarf okra! Don't even need a ladder lol.
I can see why Cajun B said dwarf cowhorn is the only variety he grows nowadays. Really stands out from other varieties ive grown. Glade that cultivar seed stock made its way to Lazy Dog Farm! I dont see myself growing any other variety unless its something just for "frills"
Emerald, a variety developed by the Campbells soup company for gumbo stays tender up to 9-10 inches. The plants are compact at only about 4 feet. You should try some and I will definitely grow yours next season to compare.
I grew that one a few years ago. Great tender variety, but the plants got too tall on me pretty quick.
I grew some of these from seeds I got on your website. The size of these plants work great for my small garden space. I thought the color of the okra was odd too, mine was really pale green, even more so than the ones you were showing. I fried some the other day and it tastes fine though, maybe less slimy than other varieties I've tried.
Thanks Travis, i hope baby Esse, loves her baby food.
! I just turned on this video after I just started to stew some fresh tomatoes, okra, and garlic on the stove...
Love okra and tomatoes over rice. My wife likes me to add corn to it. Either way we’ll be eating some this week with all this rain and heat
I got mine from you and they are growing great.
My mommy used to bend the tip of the okra and if it breaks off that means is good to eat, but if it does not break off, that means its too hard and not good to eat.
Love your recipes ❤ Nothing like Deep South okry, maters, and rice❤❤❤Mighty good eating❤❤❤Love your channel and beautiful family❤❤❤❤
Picking okree for a month lovem stewed. kinda particular to clemson variety thats what my dad grew many years ago.
My okree has started to put on a few pods and soon I'll have some fried or stewed with onions and tomatoes. Makes my mouth water thinking of it.
I’ve never had, okra and tomatoes. I’ll have to try it out.
Love fried okra !
Travis, Nice squash !
Great variety. I love them.
The okra and tomatoes recipe was great. Added some cayenne and crushed rep pepper flakes. 😋
Nice veggies! I planted my giant butternut seeds a month ago? I checked them last week and saw they germinated but weren’t breaking through. So I replanted them and today I saw that the leaves have sprouted. Might get a squash yet!
Yummy love it.
I am making that recipe tomorrow
Thank you for the primary, secondary, and tertiary videos that you produce for us each week. If we were neighbors for a day (about all of ya'll's humidity I could take), I could teach you all about hand pollinating cucurbits so you could teach the Lazy Dog Fam. Just ain't that tough. The rest of the day I'd spend with Titus in a fig eating contest at your expense. How would you describe the flavor of your Turkey Creek tomato? I'm still several weeks away from that date with Duke's (It's got Twang)..
Turkey Creek is very tasty!
Travis, you got to grow some white okra. I get seeds from truelove seeds. It's called white velvet. Really good.
Just went over to your website and ordered the dwarf cow horn. This will make nine, ten varieties that I have.
Quite the collection!
@@LazyDogFarm The seeds came in the mail today. Started some. Thanks again!😃
I am getting 6-8lbs of okra a day now with just under 200 plants.
I'd strongly suggest hitting up your local Latino supermarket for some nice white corn 'harina de maiz'. It's the best thing for breading and frying okra. Add a little flour, some buttermilk and an egg, season it how you want...I just dip them whole when they're young and fry them up.
@@MrBendylaw we use regular cornmeal and don’t use anything else. If you shake okra and cornmeal in a bag and leave it for a few minutes, the mucilaginous quality that makes okra slimy binds the cornmeal to the okra with no need for other ingredients. But I cook mine sliced rather than whole because that’s how my family prefers it because it gets really crispy that way and removes the sliminess. 😊
Wow. Great deal. There's only 2 of us, so 50-60 plants are just about perfect.
@@tarabooartarmy3654 That is what I was raised on, and I still do it sometimes with a little baconfat and Crisco. But if you split them down from the stem and get your cornbread mix right, and the hot oil, you can get them to 'bloom' as they crisp up, and it's mighty good.
@@MrBendylaw Sounds interesting. I might have to try that next time.
Okreeee!!!! Yum!! I’ve got 3 jambalaya plants but I tend to stand in the garden and eat it raw before I ever get in the house with much of it lol 😂 Good stuff! 💚
I overplanted about 8 types of okra. I eat raw okra first thing each morning. Growth EXPLODED towards the middle of June. So I hope to save a lot in my freezer to cook on my little Dash Mini Griddles. I`ve only cooked a bit of it....had okra, grilled green beans, and yellow squash chunks coated in PAN precooked corn meal and cooked it al;l on my griddles in olive oil with Cajun seasoning and onion/garlic powder.
I've never eaten it raw! Do the hairs not irritate your mouth?
First time making okree and maters on Sunday.
Almost liked it better than fried. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
I've never grown Seminole pumpkins but I'm growing Cherokee tans for the first time and the vines are insane. The vine to fruit ratio are similar to watermelons. I don't have many fruits for all the vines I have. They've taken over everything. I may need to create a new garden bed just for them
Cherokee Tans are extremely vigorous plants. Good producers too!
Nice welcoming humidity to bring you back to reality- I feel your pain.
When I'm harvesting okra, if I think it might be too tough, I just bite off the end. If it's chewable, it's good.
I frequently use that test as well. Good one!
Smothered Okra and Tomatoes on rice Yee Haw ! I usually add thinly sliced sausage.
Years
Years ago my Granddad grew something that looks like that but about twice as big glad to know that might be it He grew them to fating up the hogs
We pick twice a week and get 3 - 5gal. Buckets each time…
Promise y’all this is great product okras and like slimy.
Somewhere I heard that if you put a tough okra pod in the microwave , about a minute, till it "pops", it will be tender again. Now, I haven't tried that so I don't know if it works..
Jeff from East Tennessee. Zone 7A. Just canned over 50 quarts of bush beans. Got them from Jonny’s seed. Called Affirmed. Just 2 down the list from Provider in seed catalog.
Question: when can I plant snow pea seeds in trays for fall crop? Plants will be inside under good grow lights for just a few days. Ps garden looks good. Tomatoes have some die back from all the rain. Thanks!!
I'd just direct seed them once the temps break a little in early fall. They don't care much for temps in the 80s or higher.
Oh no! No wonder there`s vines all over my garden. I stuck seeds everywhere at my new place to see what would grow and of course covered the area in peas to build soil. I have been attacked by vines. I move the vine and it returns. But I planted various vining plants included a few pumpkin seeds. Armadillos attacked and killed so much that I have no clue what actually survived.
Are you still affiliated with Hoss Tools? On one of your other videos you mentioned several varieties of tomatoes that Hoss Tools doesn't carry. I've been enjoying your videos. Good job.
I resigned from there in early 2021.
On your first pumpkin, I don't think the vine should be on top of the pumpkin. Exciting how fast they can grow. 😮
You're right. I was able to reposition the vine a bit when I put the pumpkin on a pallet a few days ago.
@@LazyDogFarm I'm growing an Atlantic Giant pumpkin on my front lawn. No idea how big it will actually get but it's fun.
Are you making white rice with your okra and tomatoes? Because I will stop by for dinner, I love the southern home cook meal because you can taste how fresh the food is. 😊
Yes, always white rice with okree and tomatoes.
That sounds like a plan. The best food is always simple yet flavorful because it is not being covered by all of those spices.
I didn't plant any okree this year and I've been regretting it
There`s time if you plant a dwarf variety. In the South plant any early producing type. Start in a big pot indoors under 24/7 grow light.
@@baneverything5580 I don't have the space indoors but I might order some dwarf variety and just direct seed them and see what hsppens.
I have one okra from 4 plants...😅
Hello from Bergheim, TX! I have a corn question: I’m in zone 8b. I would like to plant some Indian corn. Is it too late? If there is still time when exactly would you recommend planting it? I have Blue Hopi seeds. Thanks! Robin
Not too late. We'll be planting some blue corn in the next couple days.
I don't see how to order different types of okree seeds
Lmfa..oak-ree...love it!!!! Go dogs i suppose..as.a.sports widow...(WHO IS PUSHING 80 AND TODAY IS OUR ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUICKEST MILLION YEARS ON RECORD...ACTUALLY 63 YEARS.....LOL..BUT LONGER ..
AS WE WE MET AND STAYED TOGETHER SINCE 7TH GRADE..!!!!!!!!!)
DOGS...is the only collage team i now know....BTW..WHAT KIND OF DOGS???
Back to.gardening....WHAT ABOUT GROWING ARTICHOKE..AND WHICH IS BEST FOR US SOUTHERNERS..CAN WE DO IT IN FALL??? Under your inspiration i got about six from each of my four plants..i sure would love to make marinated ones...ANY IDEAS???..ANYONE???
I'm growing dwarf cowhorn okra that I bought from you, are you selling seeds again next year, or do I need to save some from what I have growing?
I hope to have a fresh stock of seed for next year too.
Travis/members in comments. I broke the top off my Orka plant ( the flowering part). Will it grow more flower from the side or is it toast?
Not sure about your variety.
I normally cut my okra plants- crimson spineless when they are too tall to reach for harvest.
More side branches would grow out. Not long afterwards then frost came.
@@mamokamika4212Thank you very much, I was hoping more would grow out the side, and yes Clemson. Thanks again
22.4lbs ain't bad dawg .. ours might be that and still growing.. 😅
Do the butternuts taste the same and keep well?
Haven't tried them yet, but I'm told they do.
Oakrey, Oakley Sunglasses?
Couldn’t find that particular recipe
Here you go: lazydogfarm.com/blogs/recipes/okree-and-tomatoes
Thank you Looks great
Sure would like to take you at your word about that okra but I'm skeptical ever since you convinced me to try that evil jambalaya dwarf okra 😂. Still waiting for you to start selling the bacon taters, by the way!
Haha! Jambalaya was the way to go when we were growing okra to sell. But it caused me to have several fits of the okra itch/sting in the process.
@@LazyDogFarm that stuff ate us alive lol
Can large hard okra be pressure cooked like fish with bones to make them edible?
Never tried that. We always toss the tough ones.
If you dont hand pollinate your giant pumpkins you run the risk of rogue pollin from another squash plant.
Makes sense. I hadn't though of that.
St. George, PC, or Destin?
Panacea
@@LazyDogFarm you must like it quiet.
@@bpfsu We do.
So I shouldn't let my Jambalaya okra get larger than 4 inches?
Just keep a close eye on it. If it gets really dry, it can get tough quick.
Planted my okra transplants in the ground 3 weeks ago and it aint grew a bit ? Maybe i should have been a dentist like my Daddy said 😂
Where are you located? Okra can be kind of slow like that and then suddenly it just takes off.
Okra likes hot weather. It grows like a weed down here in the summer.
Picking okra in a tank top, not me bro'.
Lazy dog > Hoss
Think it's pronounced oak ra not re 😅
Depends on where you live. lol