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Our Okra is finally starting to make. We plant it late as a summer crop. It is starting now and our lil patch will produce till the frost gets it, which as yall know can be very late. We already have a gallon in the freezer and I cant wait till its in a pot. Till then I get to enjoy a little known fact. The okra blossum is truly beautiful.http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KY5yXgJWWY...0/IMG_3481.JPG
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Cappy & Pegody's World: Our "Long Horn" Okra
Nice picture!
Cappy you stole my story. I planted my okra late also after I pulled up my snapbeans. The snapbeans were late because of the late winter. In fact I lost the first ones to frost and had to replant. Even those had some skips and I have to fill in. Finally the beans came in and we put up 53 quarts. The longhorn okra I'm growing this year is call King Cajun which I got from someone online that lives around Crowley I believe. I usually plant Fife County which is a superb long horn okra. The seed he gave me and I planted didn't come up well. I must have dropped nearly 200 seeds in the ground and on 23 came up. I transplant them to spread them out in the garden. I don't know if you've ever grown them spaced out at 6 to 8 foot apart. When they start growing instead of growing straight up they grow into a bush with up to 6 producing branches. You can pick up to 15 okra from each plant once they get going. I usually plant mine about 1 foot apart so the grow straight and tall. My little patch is about 25' by 35' so I usually have 5 or 6 rows 35 feet long. When the okra start producing well, I pick 5 gallons every other day which is just enough to fill our largest Magnalite pot with chopped okra. Add a can of Rotel and some onions then put in oven for 2 hours stirring at 1 hour. Let cool and put in freezer bags and into the freeze. Couldn't be any easier unless you get someone else to do it for ya.
"gene"
I like it grilled too, especially the red okra.
Yea we usually let ours get straight and tall and prune lower leaves off so the sun can get to the late comers. We pick and choose based on which way a low branch is facing and encourage some to grow out over the side of our garden or fill in a square that didn;t grow. I have in the past had 3 or 4 producing plants from one root stalk. I aint got a clue what variety these are as these were given to me over 10 years ago. They like the seeds I lost before that long pale and not as slimey as the creole short ones. Like you gene we save them in ice bags in the freezer all sliced till we have a pot full. we also add thin sliced sausage or diced tasso to ours smother them down and either freeze or can depending on which has the most room.
I like the picture
I've been saving a variety for over 20 years. Have no idea what it is. It's spiny and will get long with out getting woody. We use about six gallons a year. I'm starting on bag five.