How to grow Okra from Seed 

This video came just in time. I am growing Okra for the first time in my garden. I still haven't planted it yet though. I have transplants, so I want to wait till it's a little further along in May so it's warmer. I'm in NJ zone 7a. Thanks for the tips! I was hoping for your grandma's recipe too.

Thank you very much I haven’t done a garden in years and I ran across your channel. Thank you for all the information your place looks beautiful.

I've seen it grown along a side walk and it's stunning and unique.

What a coincidence - I just finished planting my okra a couple of days ago. I really love tender baby okra. They're so soft to touch and look rather decorative too. :) I hope lockdown is treating you well.

Bautiful!! Okra is one of my favorites.

NO WAY! I’m sitting on some seeds waiting for it to heat up! SO EXCITINGGG. Ok bye, gonna watch now 😍

My summer didn't get hot enough for okra but i will try again

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This video came just in time for me as well: I was ABOUT to plant my okra, and the nights are just not warm enough yet. After watching your youtube I will wait another week.

Very timely, I just put my okra seed in the ground yesterday here in zone 8a Alabama. We have had an actual cool Spring here this year so I've held off on planting. Usually it goes in the same time as tomato starts on Good friday weekend.

another beautiful video

I'm trying Hill Country Red okra this year. The picture of the plant is really pretty, and being a transplanted southerner, I love okra.

Fantastic help we are growing our first crop this year ...I live in an area of France where we get more than enough sun ...just want to say I adore your clothes and style ...the need to grow my favourite vegetable is so important as you cannot buy okra in my region for love or money ...France just does not have a love affair with okra ...despite popularity in Cajun cuisine ...

Great! So glad to see you planting Clemson Spineless, a great Carolina okra! Okra is always my fallback crop, if everything else fails, the okra is always there as a backup. It grows like a weed in my southern swamp and doesn't require good soil or fertilizer or water or any sort of care at all. If you are up north, have you looked into breeding your own variety of okra that is short-season and adapted to cooler temps? You might be able to find some varieties of okra that produce quicker, and then select and save seed from there. If you don't have space in the ground in a south-facing warm sunny area, you could always plant okra in large black 10, 15, or 20 gallon pots (fabric pot grow bags are great) and they will heat up quickly. Okra seed can take a long time to germinate, sometimes a month or more from direct seed if temps aren't warm. Best of luck, happy okra growing! Okra is an amazing survival crop! cheers

we definitely have squirrels in urban spaces! and I have lots of bugs. Some of my neighbors have built cages similar to yours and got great results.

Xx. Thanks for all the info on all your videos they are very informative really like them keep them coming and congrats on your new home it fits you and your personality

Grows great down here in Florida

Your videos are so beautifully made ❤️❤️

We get about 20 to 30 pods and flowers daily from 80 plants: red and long green. We also harvest the leaves, but chop them finely and blanch them because they are otherwise tough. We have come up with innovative ways to use it because it's almost too much for two people. I include the chopped pods, plus leaves and flowers it as primary ingredients in veggie patties (along with flax / chia meal, rolled oats, buckwheat flour, lentils, chickpeas, water). And I have started using a puree of the pods in soda bread. It works well because the mucilage helps capture the bubbles needed for bread making. The okra plants are highly productive over a long season, drought resistant, and they have few pests that cause any real problems. I call the flowers Venus Bee Traps because bumble bees get intoxicated down in there and the flowers close in the afternoon, occasionally with a bee stuck inside. When I pick closed flowers, sometimes there's a startling buzz as I squeeze the base to pick it. So I have to Free the Bee. They seem pissed and ecstatic at the same time upon release. It's a dangerous business but somebody has to do it. The cats absolutely refuse.

Pretty neat, I've never grown okra before. I learned alot from your experience. Thanks for sharing!💕

The cages you've made look wonderful! They bring a liveliness to your garden space. Congratulations on the successful growth and harvest of your okra! The plants I've planted are starting to produce pods. I'll be harvesting soon as well. Cheers!

Plants produced like 2 pods a piece last year but I am moving them to the sunnier side garden this year.

Okra grows well here in Tennessee, but I have a lot of big tall trees in my yard. I need to find the place that gets the most sun. I love okra and my Arabic boyfriend and his family use it a lot too. I would love to grow some and share it 😊

Really excited to try this one out this year. I live in an area that I'm clearing and first year for growing, going to try okra since it has a lot of sun and it gets pretty hot.

I've never heard of Okra before. I enjoy the cooking segments in your videos, would be cool to see a video of how you incorporate Okra into your dishes.

Hi. I’m a new subscriber. I love your videos (I’ve watched 6 already ) I’d love to see more on growing herbs on the ground in the front yard! Please! I’m in a small urban Midwest lot, zone 6a Thank you

Loved the video

The cages are beautiful. I am growing okra.. but they took a long time to sprout and I know that was because the seeds may not have been too fresh . Nevertheless they r doing well... We have high temperatures at the moment.. so hoping they do well .

Actually a sharp knife is much more effective for harvesting okra. We grow okra in our garden year round :). Also as it is heirloom variety you can keep the mature/non-edible pods in the plant to get fully matured, and you can save those seeds for next year.

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I'm from the tropics and okra grows almost like a weed here. They tolerate poor soil, rain and can't get enough sunlight, and now my first okra plants, which I planted from seed are flowering like crazy =)

Hello Siloé, I grew a couple last year for the flowers, I cannot recall the name. The stems were burgundy, the flowers were a lemony yellow with burgundy throats. The only downside was, the flowers only lasted for a couple of hours.😔 If I’m honest, I really didn’t grow them for eating, ☺️ but they are a sturdy and beautiful plants. Thank you for sharing. 😉

Oh if you let large okra dry on stalk and then pick them, they make great music maker shakers! For kids and adults! 🥰💖✌️💐

I love okra but have so far had no success with it here in France, not even in my hit8h tunnel. I am trying again, though ; can't just give up😑

Great. I hope to see a recipe with okra in your next episod. 👌👏

I ❤ you Siloè

Ok im 48 and still not old enough. Yuck. But it is a beautiful plant and wonderful for hair and skin care. Thanks for another great video. Thanks

Thanks ......Plant jambalaya okra and you can harvest two pods a day from each plant

Here in Texas you can throw seeds on your concrete driveway and it will grow. Ha ha! It grows and produces like mad until you kill it in the Fall.

You can slice and dry the large tough okra and make star tea!

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I planted mine 2 or 3 weeks ago and no sign of it yet. :( I wonder if I planted them too early...

Have you heard of making “coffee” with roasted okra seed? Maybe that would be a way to use seeds from pods that are too tough. I’ve purchased some okra called Abigails coffee okra, but I’ve read an article or 2 about using the seeds from okra (not specifically this variety) to make an okra coffee. I’ll let you know what I think when I try it.

Somehow I was never intrigued to grow Okra. Sine you are doing it, I am being moved. : )

If you had those that were on too long allow one pod to remain on each plant, let it dry and harvest the seeds.

I've been waiting for this video!!!!!

So the plants have a mission huh? lol how long ıt takes to harvest ?

Is that chopped up grass covering your beds?

Does the number of pods per okra plant change depending on species? This year during the summer my okra plants have 5 or 6 pods per plant, is that normal?

Would you be able to use the seeds from those more mature okras you had that aren't really edible?

If you bought the shortest and cheapest tomato cages you could find(3ft. tall?), then wrap 18" tall chicken wire around the cage, your seedlings would be protected from rabbits and ground hogs. One okra plant per cage. Place the cages side by side, or in groupings of 3-4 in the sunniest parts of the yard. This will free up some of the space in your larger beds. Just a thought. Example: www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/glamos-42-in-galvanized-tomato-cage-703002

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