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Our first okra crop has started coming in the past three weeks, and we are getting phenomenal production. I think it really, really likes it here, and I don't even have it in the best part of the garden. Just remember to pick it every day, or the pods get coarse and the plants slow down blooming. I toss it into the fridge and there is a nice big mess to fry up and feed four people every three days, and it doesn't seem to have peaked yet. This is from about 8 or 10 plants.
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Jerry
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That's great news, Jerry! Okra was on our dinner table frequently, growing up. Do you have it in the "ground" or in a raised planter?
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Good to hear okra is doing well, its one of my favorite vegetables....should do well frozen if you get tired of eating it everyday....but this works well with any other stir fry vegetable or caserole dish...i find it to be a very versatile veggie.
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Aloha, Glen. We have it in the "ground" which in our case is a sort of raised bed. We built two low (6 to 8 inches)rock wall rectangles about 30 X 40 feet and filled them with soil we had hauled in. Okra must have shallow roots because they are in the part that only has about 5 inches of soil on top of pahoehoe.
Cheerfully anticipating having you for a neighbor,
Jerry
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Oh, likewise, Jerry and Bear and all. Do you water your vegetables, or do you rely solely on rainfall to irrigate your garden?
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Glen, in two and a half years of vegetable gardening here in HPP, I have only had to do a general watering about three or four times. Things like new seedlings and very recent transplants sometimes need more frequent spot watering if we go more than two or three days without rain. Established veggies can usually go a week or more before they need irrigation. I intentionally ordered a soil mix that drains well, or perhaps would not have to water even as little as I do. Your place is closer to the ocean, so you should get less rain than we do.
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Jerry
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We have had Okra in our garden since we arrived here.
It is the best producing veg that we have.
We are now growing red variety.
Love it with dusted with corn meal and garbanzo bean flour. Then pan fried. Blackened a little.
It is also has beautiful flower...
Aloha
Wyatt
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wyatt,
wow, a red variety that sounds cool, are the buds red, or the parts of the plant....wish we had that when we came over, will have to check it out again on our next visit.
aloha,
noel
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Hey Noel, Fried Okra it is. Might be green might be red, or both.
The stalk, and seed pods are red. The flower white/yellow with red/maroon center. Looks like Hibiscus flower. Okra and Hibiscus are both from the Mallow family. You see how well Hibiscus does here. I think Okra is just as prolific here.
Wyatt
Edited by - wyatt on 08/16/2007 12:26:18
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that sounds nice, i had no idea okra was from the mallow family....the flower sounds like one of the rose of sharon types, but with yummy edibles....i heard that the flowers are also edible?
i look forward to growing a variety of hibiscus, i've always been attracted to the big saucer varieties...
