How To Grow Okra (Clemson Spineless) In Raised Beds
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In today's episode we look at growing Clemson Spineless okra, a very popular and delicious okra variety, in raised garden beds. The Clemson spineless okra variety is a very nice tasting okra which has no spines, hence the okra variety name. Buy seeds here: amzn.to/1m9j4f4
Years ago, I had the pleasure of eating breaded okra whilst visiting inlaws in the USA. Up until recently, I didn't know what sort of plant it grew on. What struck me were the attractive flowers that make most varieties of Okra interesting to look at. A lot of people ignore the beauty of plants often grown as vegetables. If we take a bit of extra time to study the anatomy of vegetables, we can appreciate them a lot more. Why not allow a vegetable to serve as both food and something neat to look at?
I grow Clemson Spineless in Austin TX and i can tell you it LOVES the hot weather. It's 100 F right now and my plants are happy and produce abundant okra as long as I keep them watered.
Thanks, I am growing Clemson spineless okra now for the first time ever growing okra, and they are the happiest growing plants in my entire garden. Zone 8a, middle Georgia USA
Love your videos. I especially appreciate how you continue to document the growth of plants throughout the season so we can see the results.
Your channel deserves more subscribers & likes! I recently started gardening & you were one of the people that encouraged me to do so. Thank you so much! 😊
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!
0:15 Watching in 2017 and I realized how much the subscriber count has grown in only about a year. Keep up the good work and keep growing!
Thank you very much! Is because of comments like this from YOU, my viewers that I get motivated to produce my videos. Happy Gardening!
Buy seeds here: amzn.to/2ZoLWoB
I grew a red variety in my flower bed last year ( I have more sunlight in front yard but live in a subdivision- they were beautiful and very prolific!) Growing the Clemson spineless as well this year- Calling my flower bed an edible landscape. Love your videos
Subdivisions (HOA) are evil. They wont let us grow anything in the front yard. Fortunately our back yard receives a lot of sunlight
you work very hard to shoot videos... lots of appreciation.. this is dec n u started documentary in may.
+ziyana naaz Thank you for your appreciation! Nice to know you like my videos and efforts!
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I have plenty of okra in my yard. Loved making okra curry or just boiled or grilled.
I also would like to thank you for this video. I am especially grateful that it shows the whole process. Much more educational when we can see it start to finish.
+Windy Hill Nice to know you liked the video. Happy Gardening!
it's high 60s and nights 40s in OC, ca but i'm so anxious, i'm put some seeds down in the garden. *fingers crossed*
Thank you very much for producing such excellent videos! Whenever I get an idea to grow something new, your vids pop up on my searches. I was given okra seeds and I know nothing about how to grow. This vid - like all the others that I've viewed are informative, entertaining, clear, to-the-point, and always educational.
For the first time growing Okra I am impressed my okra is over 6' I planted late but I have 5, 20' rows and harvest every 3 days 4" long is best so my wife says I don't eat it but she loves it she eats it raw or I make her a stewed tomato basil onion they were easy to grow and the okra I'm growing is the same Clemson Spineless . We also sell them and give them away to friends.
Clemson spineless is my favorite. I really enjoyed the video.
Your voice is so calming lol
Another incredible video of explaining growth at each stage. Well done and very informative!
+Jeff Bernhard (The Executive Gardener) Thank you, glad you liked it!
I just had a great summer harvest of clemson spineless okra here in Florida. I actually grew them in clusters of 6 small plants in my raised garden bed and they grew perfectly fine together, and produced a ton of okra for me until hurricane Irma decided to blow them away..sad..but it could have been a lot worse.
I love okra my favorite is fried or pickled! In the US it is eaten mostly in the southern states.
Yes, well, it's easier to grow in the warmer states, and it was something known to many of the African slaves from their native countries. So ...no surprise it's mostly eaten in the South!
@@judeirwin2222 wrote just what I was thinking about.
Yes, it was a popular vegetable crop on the continent of African. Enslaved African people, continue to cultivate the crop while in North America.
Clemson variety yes that is our favorite! Produces bumper crop year after year.
here in the south if you can grow weeds you can just about grow okra!
Great informative post once again!
This isn't first year planting a garden. This is also my first year planting okra. Thanks for the video ad great details. Your plants look so healthy I hope minn will grow as beautiful.
Good luck!
Thank you for taking the time to film, edit and posting such helpful videos. Okra is great vegetable.
I’m planning to grow okra next year so this has been a very useful video! Many thanks from England xxx
Thanks for the wonderful video! It was very informative! I planted some of the Clemson spineless okra this year. It is the first time I have ever planted okra. We also have three tomato plants hanging upside down in buckets on our fence. So far we have four green tomatoes and are anxiously waiting to taste some red tomatoes! Looking forward to having some okra, too!
Sounds great! Happy Gardening!
Heb nu diverse planten staan en ze groeten geweldig
Dank je!
These videos are just Awesome. I just moved into my first house, and i'm planning on starting my first garden. Thanks for the info man.
Thank you so much for the video. I know it is late, but I planted my Clemson 10 days ago (August 15) and it looks like your picture at 25 days. I put the seeds in a soil mixed with horse manure compost so it is rich. It is growing crazy and I am hoping to have okra before the frost. I am located in North Alabama and the temp here is a steady low to mid 90s lately.
Sounds great! Keep growing!!
Man you are a wealth of information, guess comes from experience. Thanks for this video.
Hi there. Yes, indeed, lots of hard work in all your videos. This video took about half a year! That's a lot of patience and very well organized. Thumbs up!!!!
+muz Thank you for your feedback, nice to know you liked it!
Thank you for sharing. Do you trim off most of the side leaves and stems as the plant grows?
Thanks for that! I’m going to try growing okra next summer for the first time! I hope to make some pickled okra! I am also going to grow Clemson Spineless which made this video even more interesting!
I'm growing okra this year!!!
I have started growing okra this year. I live in central Texas and I sowed in March. This year the weather is cooler than before, it gets down into the 50s during the night. So far they seem to be doing well.
3-3 days between picking here in SE Georgia
I am loving your videos! Very beautifully done thank you so much for all your efforts to teach us for free. Just subscribed to your videos
Videos very clear and informative. Thanks for sharing
Love your channel
Well I just feel like coming to your garden and learn gardening.I have Okra seeds and will try in May.Thanks for the video.
+R Atwal Thank you! Yes you should try it out, fresh okra is just amazing. Here in LA the okra is not only expensive but not so fresh. God luck! Wish you a Happy New Year!
I always love your videos! I've been watching quite a few videos on experiments with pruning them at about 4 feet and although it slows down production for a couple of weeks, many side shoots develop and the production becomes even greater until frost. I'm going to try it out.
Yes, I also grow okra and the variety is of Clemson spineless. The same as of you!
Very informative video
Super super harvest
Thanks for your efforts making videos. It feeds our love of hands-on gardening, reading about gardening, watching videos--anything to do with gardening. Is that you in a financial advertisement? I have listened to you so much that I think I recognized your voice and actual face briefly in an online commercial.
+Maria HillCountryHick Thank you for your feedback, much appreciated. I haven't appeared in an advertisement/commercial for any financial product/company so that's not me :) But thanks for asking!
Just plant 44 plants today, that i started in my greenhouse.
👍👍👍. Wishing you and your family a wonderful, healthy,peaceful and content year ahead!
+Mumbai Balcony Gardener | Avid Life Observer Thank you! Happy New Year to you and your family!
Hi, I was looking forward to a recipe following. Lol Happy Holidays to you and your family and thank you so much for teaching me ALL that you know
+princessZ44 LOL I did put a recipe in my previous okra video. See here: ua-cam.com/video/N4sId5--498/v-deo.htmlm39s - Thanks for your feedback and nice to know you are learning from the techniques. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Beautiful, well done
Red burgandy okra works well for me
Will be growing some next year. Thanks for the information.
+Midwest Gardener Nice to know you will be growing it next season. Good luck!
I plow the ground about 8 inches deep and till in some 19-19-19 fertilizer. Space seeds about 8 inches apart, 2 seeds to a hole then thin out one plant later in case only one plant grows. My spineless gets about 14 feet high and I get about 25 okra from each plant all the way into October, before first frost, if you keep it pruned.
Love your videos and wishing your viewers and family a Merry Christmas. I have growing the Burmese variety of okra which gives me a larger fruit before they toughen up.
+boilednuts Happy Holidays to you and your family! Nice to know about the Burmese okra, will check it out!
Great video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it Happy Gardening!
Thank you for your videos. Because of this video, I now know I can start harvesting. :)
great! i have never try lady finger/orka. but its nice veg. i have at least a week in my dinner. i am growing different cherry tomatoes, specially sungold(inspired by your video) and also many beafsteak tomatoes.
+umar ufx Nice to know you have okra once a week. Here okra is quite expensive and the grocery store okra is not fresh. So I usually grow okra every year. Also nice to know you are growing different tomato varieties. Happy Gardening!
I grow some okra plants this season but didn't come out good thanks for giving good ideas
Awesome videos dude. I watch all of your videos. I live in Arizona and have decent garden in out yard.
+Rajesh VP Thank you, nice to know you watch all my videos and that you have a nice garden in AZ. Happy Gardening!
Awesome video
Thanks very thru. Can we start indoors in April in wash DC area
My plants are still small but producing big pods. I ate two raw today.
+Darkfalz79 Nice to know your okra pods are growing well. The fresh pods taste amazing, don't they! Can't get such fresh okra from the store here. They are mostly dry and black in color at the grocery store.
In my country we growing up eating okra pretty much 3times a week. I'm 40 years old never had healthy problems and never visit a doctor.
Nice to know you eat a lot of okra. My kids eat okra almost everyday!
Nice variety and great information . Cheers vinny
+Sussex Gardening Thank you. Happy New Year!
The flowers are so pretty. Can you show what you do with them after harvesting?
Cheers!
Louise
To plant a garden is to believe in the future.
+Louise B There is a recipe here for the okra pods: ua-cam.com/video/N4sId5--498/v-deo.htmlm40s - We usually cook our okra this way after harvest!
I want to try growing some. Do you think it's to late in the summer to give it a try? I'm in san Diego.
How wonderful that you have a planting assistant : ) Great Okra Season!! I never tried growing Okra. maybe this May. I am moving to containers this year. Do they do well in containers?
+SureHowDoYouKnow Haha thanks, you noticed the little helper :) Yes you can grow okra in containers. In fact in my first okra video (this one: ua-cam.com/video/N4sId5--498/v-deo.htmlm43s) I grew them almost all in containers and got good yields. 5 gallon or larger containers work well. Good luck and Wish you a very Happy New Year!!
California Gardening Happy New Year!!!
Are these are heirloom? Can I use seeds from last year okra plant? Clemson okra.
Hi Sir, great coordination....I too grew Okra last month n was doubtful about the right season. Its few inch tall n will have to wait 1 more mth for the pods. I use liquid fertilizer. Thanks for the video you answered my questions. Happy New year Sir.
+Padmaja Mohan Nice to know you are growing okra. Happy New year to you too! Best Wishes!!
Hello, please can you tell me why my okra plants are suddenly producing yellowish instead of the green pods they were producing before? TIA
Can you start planting in doors for those if us in colder regions. Do they transplant well
Can i plant these seeds now in late june? Or do i need to germinate them in house at a cooler temp?
Good video, thank you.
When is it time to end harvesting season for okra. Last yap ear I pulled up my pants and still had pods growing in them. Must say they were healthy but production had slowed down.
Okra stops growing around beginning of fall which is around 3rd week of October for Zone 10
Planted again! And the leaves are so big! And within 45 days i can see little pods even if they are just little 😆
Question, you said pick the okra when it's tender , does that mean before they get too big? like over 4" is that when they get too fibrous? Because this is the first time I picked them and these were the biggest okras I've ever seen and they were just too fibrous
Yes before they get too big and that depends on the variety too. When in doubt, pick early
How many does one plant produce? And how quickly do they grow when they get to the stage of 3 months or so?
As long as the growing season goes, it will keep producing till it dies. In 3 months, about 30 okras per plant
thanks for a great video. I want to grow okra this year. I have a balcony garden, can I grow this varity in containers?
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At what point after okra seeds are planted, would you recommend adding fertilizer? You mentioned fish, weed, tomato food etc as possibilities. Are all the 3 required to be added?
After around a month, when the plants are a few inches tall. you can add fish and seaweed OR tomato food
I just order all kind of seedling lol,I get inspired from you guys I also order the clemson spineless okra,I love okra cook them a lot,how your soil like dark?.
+Marietta Brennan Nice to know my videos inspired you to start gardening. Also nice to know you love okra because I too love the flavor of okra and I could eat it almost everyday LOL.
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I am not getting any okra pods to grow. I have about 7 plants. I planted them in May. What could I be doing wrong?
Same here in So. Texas. Beautiful, bushy, tall, healthy-looking, but no pods. My other varieties are producing fine. What gives?
What is the special characteristics of this okra compare to other varieties? Why is it called clemson spineless okra? Thanks
What's the spacing for okra
great quality video :)
Great video! I am almost 8 weeks into my plants growing, and I found a flower on one of my plants today! So, my question is...do the flowers turn into the actual okra, or do the okra just grow from other areas, and not from the flowers?
Yes once the flower pollinates it becomes the okra
@@CaliforniaGardening Thank you!! 👍👍👍
My okra plants are very short but still trying to produce some pods !! Can the stunted growth be due to my planting earlier in the season ? Or they are not expected to be tall before starting to produce pods ?
I was wondering how well they would do in containers
+Linda Ellis They actually do well in containers. See this video where most of the okra I grew were in containers: ua-cam.com/video/N4sId5--498/v-deo.html
Thank you!
Cool video, just a feedback we should never tussle with the fruits. It shocks the plant. E. G. I was reading in the net if we cut okra pud with knife the next okra would come from there. I see u were bending it a lot for harvesting.
Thanks for the tip
Never tasted Okra but me get grow one or two plants. Dos you stake them indibidually?
+Marina Wilson You should taste some okra before you try to grow. Not one of the easiest plants to grow and requires hot weather. They don't need staking as they have strong stems. Hope that helps!
Very informative video! How deep should the soil be for Okra?
+Losha Ram Thank you! Soil should be at least 8 inches deep for okra. Hope that helps!
How long I need to soak the okra seeds for better germination?
I grew okra this past summer. It did not do so well as compared to last year for some reason. I grew it in mushroom compost, native soil, and azomite. The seeds I used this year were from the plants I grew last year. I think the seeds were just bad idk.
+EndUser2090 Okra is not a very easy plant to grow and needs quite hot weather as well. Yes maybe the seeds were not good. Try with a fresh batch next season. Good luck!
Issue with my Okra my plants developed a powder mold on the leaves so I used a baking soda along with a little dish soap to get rid of it along with cutting away the infected leaves my problem is now the okra has developed like bites or pimples on it not all the okra have this even on the same plant it is spineless Clemson I see no pest on the plants what could it be any ideas I can send pics if you like but I wont sell this until its resolved I just planted another 150 seeds.
Try spraying with neem oil. This is a ready to use mix which works very well: amzn.to/2hT00DL
What was your favorite okra to grow? I would like to grow some this coming season. Thank you for your efforts :)
+Eric Glass Thanks! I think the Clemson Spineless and the Louisiana Velvet are are my favorite varieties. Didn't like the Emerald too much but its still good, produces okra too thick (and not long)!
I notice taro root in the bed? Are those a companion plant? great vid as always!
+The Mixing Station Great observation. Not really companion plant but I had to plant two taro plants somewhere. Interestingly, this harvest video is from the same plant: ua-cam.com/video/EhKsBlJ5_xg/v-deo.htmlm19s
Hi, I plan to sow okra seeds in raised bed. I saw in one of your videos that you use Organic potting soil from Costco. Do I need to buy compost separately and mix with potting soil?
+Deepa Nigam Potting soil from Costco already has compost so you do not need to add anything else!
hello brother how are you... I like your video. .... but I want know .... which fertilizers use when we seed is sowing... and when seed is germinate then which fertilizers use to grow faster. .?
+Sandeep Sachdeva Thank you! You do not need to use any fertilizer when seed sowing but after germination just use a slow release or liquid fertilizer. Hope that helps!
Not sure about the variety I am trying for the first time as the seeds were posted from Malaysia to Austria. However, if you could update your video about the common pests which attach okra plants, that would be highly useful for your audience. Please, no pesticides as I think more and more growers prefer organic vegetables, less harmful to the environment and insect life + bees.
Please see: ua-cam.com/video/35t_yr1bb40/v-deo.html and this: ua-cam.com/video/CTUHpJekFdw/v-deo.html
Hmmm. Ive been growing okra plants too, they are short but, they already have little okra pods.. And it has like an egg of insects. And the leaves are starting to have white leaves
+Katrina Dizon Most likely white flies or aphids. Bathe them with a soapy solution, let it dry and hose off with water. Should hep, good luck!
I'm growing okra in a 2by4 box
which fertilizers are slow fertilizers?
+Sandeep Sachdeva Any granular complete fertilizer like this one: amzn.to/1Oparmn
Hand pollinate okra plants