You have nice hot weather, here it is cold and raining. Okra are really great plants. I have never grown them, or tasted okra, but interesting to see how large the plants become and with such thick stems. About as thick as my sweet corn plants. Thanks for sharing.
Okra is a part of culture here and if you ever get the chance to try it I say go for it. I wish I could send you a nice mess of it but I don't think that would be wise, haha. It's so fun to grow but I really question its potential profitability. Thanks for checking it out.
I have never done that because I like to keep one central stalk in production but I have seen people do it. I like to see how tall I can get the plants, I have had some over 10 feet tall in the past.
Thanks brother, I'm pretty burn out in this video from the heat but I'm trying to get my head right going into the fall shoulder season. I'll be honest, I'm having trouble separating my love of growing variety from hacking out a profitable skill set.
The okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, heritage style small melons from warm climates. And maybe if you are lucky the butternut and smaller keeping squash before first freeze if your dirt is rich enough. You are gonna need an axe for the okra removal. And preferably a son to help hack and pull. If you lack a son then a best buddy. Those look like the red okra. I am on my phone. Here they go for $5 or 6 for a plastic box the size of a quart jar. I know of a rare variety that is a better producer but don't want to blurt it out here. I have grown okra for years. And I can tell you that this variety I am speaking of needs to be saved, unless of course it is too late. I will inquire on it again. Perhaps you can help save it. I was unable to find seed this year. What zone are you working? I am in 8a. I got melons from the market the other day. The main farmer had watermelons, cantaloupe, yellow watermelon (video), okra, tail end of tomato crop, onions, cukes, purple hulls, a few yellow squash. And I hear some peaches are around. For herbs I have seen the mint and basil at peak. The melon and cantaloupe seeds I have are acclimated for 8a if you want some. My email is on my video. #FreeSeeds Good to see you prospering. Okra may be your deal. I will be happy to share more details over email. What's the plan on the hair? You going for a rat tail, Willie Nelson braids, or curly old Toby Keith look? Wjat is your wife saying? There is a guy I watch at night. The choices he made affected his channel. When he started using gel it did improve the aestetic. Don't laugh so hard! It matters. 😂 Listen to a lady you know with a good sense of style. Not Mom. LOL I know looks are skin deep. But this is a visual medium. I know you don't have a huge following yet so analytics are thin. But it wouldn't surprise me if your viewership ends up being females 30-60. I think that you will do great in time. Keep plugging. Your skills are visibly better.
I'm very interested in this okra you speak of but can't commit to a seed saving project just yet. I have saved seed for okra many times in the past and its a blast. I apologize for my appearance but it will probably get much worse before it gets better. Its pretty low on my list of priorities.
could plant a row on every or every other bed, on the west side of the beds. Then plant things that can't take as much heat along side them. By the time the Okra is shading things, your daylength is pretty long, and the soil's plenty warm; so the plants like collards, kale, cabbage, Lettuce, and carrots don't need direct sun for the entire day to do well. By the time you prune up the stalk 12-24", the season's starting to cool off a bit, and you can allow more light into the beds. Up here in OH, I interplant every bed with taller things, so I can grow most crops all summer long, with minimal irrigation. Plus side is that it makes those taller things more economically viable on a small scale (sweetcorn, okra, greenbeans, ect). Can't make much money on .33 acre of only sweetcorn, but it's nice to have if you plant it on "wide rows" (spreading the same number of plants out over .66 acres) and then plant the entire .66 acres with more valuable stuff, which benefit from the shade the corn provides (or structure in the case of pole beans). Similar idea to broad-acre farmers interplanting into 60" corn (wait... it's been 3 years and I just realized that that would put the corn I'm planting on 60" 🤦♂) I run 48" beds, with 12" paths, however. Every bed gets horizontally trellised tomatoes (or tomatillos), every bed gets sweetcorn, every bed gets pole beans, every bed gets a cucurbit (melons, cucumbers, squash, ect), and every bed has either peppers or eggplant. The beds (4 x 220') that get zucchini get Okra along with the corn and tomatoes. Everything else is planted wherever there's space. Can't be certified "organic" since I can't 100% guarantee that I won't be planting something in the same place twice in a season lol; but the price premiums have pretty much disappeared anyways, so it's NBD.
I didn’t know that okra grew that tall! That’s a great idea to interplant into the okra. So you’re plan is to plant Salanova starts underneath while the okra is still growing then cut the okra back when it’s done producing and maybe it will also be cooler temps by then for the lettuce?
Heirloom okra is a beast of a plant! Mine typically tops out around 9 feet but the last garden I ever did before I left Alabama was the biggest. I moved to Arkansas when it was around a foot tall. I came back that fall and my PaPa cut the tallest stalk and measured it at 12 feet and 1 inch! A wonderful memory of a very special man. So in this video I was talking about getting out a crop of Salanova on the front end when the okra is still young. However I have been pondering doing what your saying this fall but am still on the fence about that. I can't make up my mind on anything in the fall garden yet.
Okra is awesome, I grow it myself thanks for the reassurance of there heat tolerance my fellow human
You have nice hot weather, here it is cold and raining. Okra are really great plants. I have never grown them, or tasted okra, but interesting to see how large the plants become and with such thick stems. About as thick as my sweet corn plants.
Thanks for sharing.
Okra is a part of culture here and if you ever get the chance to try it I say go for it. I wish I could send you a nice mess of it but I don't think that would be wise, haha. It's so fun to grow but I really question its potential profitability. Thanks for checking it out.
Do you top our plants?
I have never done that because I like to keep one central stalk in production but I have seen people do it. I like to see how tall I can get the plants, I have had some over 10 feet tall in the past.
Looks good, nice work
Thanks brother, I'm pretty burn out in this video from the heat but I'm trying to get my head right going into the fall shoulder season. I'll be honest, I'm having trouble separating my love of growing variety from hacking out a profitable skill set.
The okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, heritage style small melons from warm climates. And maybe if you are lucky the butternut and smaller keeping squash before first freeze if your dirt is rich enough.
You are gonna need an axe for the okra removal. And preferably a son to help hack and pull. If you lack a son then a best buddy. Those look like the red okra. I am on my phone. Here they go for $5 or 6 for a plastic box the size of a quart jar. I know of a rare variety that is a better producer but don't want to blurt it out here. I have grown okra for years. And I can tell you that this variety I am speaking of needs to be saved, unless of course it is too late. I will inquire on it again. Perhaps you can help save it. I was unable to find seed this year. What zone are you working? I am in 8a. I got melons from the market the other day. The main farmer had watermelons, cantaloupe, yellow watermelon (video), okra, tail end of tomato crop, onions, cukes, purple hulls, a few yellow squash. And I hear some peaches are around. For herbs I have seen the mint and basil at peak.
The melon and cantaloupe seeds I have are acclimated for 8a if you want some. My email is on my video. #FreeSeeds
Good to see you prospering. Okra may be your deal. I will be happy to share more details over email.
What's the plan on the hair? You going for a rat tail, Willie Nelson braids, or curly old Toby Keith look? Wjat is your wife saying? There is a guy I watch at night. The choices he made affected his channel. When he started using gel it did improve the aestetic. Don't laugh so hard! It matters. 😂 Listen to a lady you know with a good sense of style. Not Mom. LOL I know looks are skin deep. But this is a visual medium. I know you don't have a huge following yet so analytics are thin. But it wouldn't surprise me if your viewership ends up being females 30-60. I think that you will do great in time. Keep plugging. Your skills are visibly better.
I'm very interested in this okra you speak of but can't commit to a seed saving project just yet. I have saved seed for okra many times in the past and its a blast. I apologize for my appearance but it will probably get much worse before it gets better. Its pretty low on my list of priorities.
could plant a row on every or every other bed, on the west side of the beds. Then plant things that can't take as much heat along side them. By the time the Okra is shading things, your daylength is pretty long, and the soil's plenty warm; so the plants like collards, kale, cabbage, Lettuce, and carrots don't need direct sun for the entire day to do well. By the time you prune up the stalk 12-24", the season's starting to cool off a bit, and you can allow more light into the beds.
Up here in OH, I interplant every bed with taller things, so I can grow most crops all summer long, with minimal irrigation. Plus side is that it makes those taller things more economically viable on a small scale (sweetcorn, okra, greenbeans, ect). Can't make much money on .33 acre of only sweetcorn, but it's nice to have if you plant it on "wide rows" (spreading the same number of plants out over .66 acres) and then plant the entire .66 acres with more valuable stuff, which benefit from the shade the corn provides (or structure in the case of pole beans). Similar idea to broad-acre farmers interplanting into 60" corn (wait... it's been 3 years and I just realized that that would put the corn I'm planting on 60" 🤦♂)
I run 48" beds, with 12" paths, however. Every bed gets horizontally trellised tomatoes (or tomatillos), every bed gets sweetcorn, every bed gets pole beans, every bed gets a cucurbit (melons, cucumbers, squash, ect), and every bed has either peppers or eggplant. The beds (4 x 220') that get zucchini get Okra along with the corn and tomatoes. Everything else is planted wherever there's space. Can't be certified "organic" since I can't 100% guarantee that I won't be planting something in the same place twice in a season lol; but the price premiums have pretty much disappeared anyways, so it's NBD.
I didn’t know that okra grew that tall! That’s a great idea to interplant into the okra. So you’re plan is to plant Salanova starts underneath while the okra is still growing then cut the okra back when it’s done producing and maybe it will also be cooler temps by then for the lettuce?
Heirloom okra is a beast of a plant! Mine typically tops out around 9 feet but the last garden I ever did before I left Alabama was the biggest. I moved to Arkansas when it was around a foot tall. I came back that fall and my PaPa cut the tallest stalk and measured it at 12 feet and 1 inch! A wonderful memory of a very special man. So in this video I was talking about getting out a crop of Salanova on the front end when the okra is still young. However I have been pondering doing what your saying this fall but am still on the fence about that. I can't make up my mind on anything in the fall garden yet.
Paxtiano Dirt Frog oh yes, that totally makes sense. Use the space under the okra while it’s still young to get lettuce too 😀👍