I decided I like fresh Okra - Page 4

babice · July 20, 2012

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Originally Posted by jennifer28

...if you dare me to try something I will...

So - jennifer28 - I believe a quadruple-dog-dare to try pickled okra has been put out to you. Worth1 took my double-dog dare and also double-dog dared you so that's double-dog-dare-squared, right!?

Well - you gonna step up or not?

jennifer28 · July 20, 2012

I will definitely try it. I don't have enough of my own to pickle, but I will go look for some. I don't think it is readily available here in Connecticut. I'll look online and see if I can order some.

babice · July 20, 2012

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Originally Posted by jennifer28

I will definitely try it. I don't have enough of my own to pickle, but I will go look for some. I don't think it is readily available here in Connecticut. I'll look online and see if I can order some.

Oh goodness no. If you can't find it in a groc store there, I'll ship it to you! That'll be may way of helping reimburse you for taking the trouble and time to send so many folks some of your Turkish seeds! OK? Just PM me if you can't find it there!

Lcottomsvcs · July 28, 2012

My kids love okra pickles, they beg me to make them, and they are so easy. I keep about 12 plants and am able to put up 3-4 pints every week during the summer. It is my family's favorite pickle. This year I grew Burgundy okra, and the red pods turn the pickling liquid pink. Very pretty.

Worth1 · July 29, 2012

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Originally Posted by jennifer28

I will definitely try it. I don't have enough of my own to pickle, but I will go look for some. I don't think it is readily available here in Connecticut. I'll look online and see if I can order some.

Not an excuse you give me your address and I'll send you some of Texas's best.
You folks will be glad to know my Florida work mate and I have been teaching a yankee work mate how to speak southern.

He is doing very well I might add.

He still struggles when we lay into the hard core southern and he can't understand a word we say.
It is nice to work with someone where you can speak your language and people can't undersatnd it.

Worth

jennifer28 · July 29, 2012

One of my brother in laws is from Texas. I can't remember where, though... I want to say somewhere right outside san antone... Anyway he lives in Cali with my sister and both of them get teased for their accents. My sister because she talks like a "new yorker" and my brother in law because of his Texas accent. I don't have a hard time understanding him.

I know there was a discussion about dialects and accents a while back.

I found this web site that has sound bytes of different accents from around the country.

It is really neat to listen to them, this link has all the Texas samples:

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica...exas/texas.htm

Worth1 · July 29, 2012

You are hearing southern drawl what im am takenbowt izwinya putalawords tagetha antawk.
Winyaheyait eyit looks like wadimwritenow.

Worth

jennifer28 · July 29, 2012

LOL my brother in law does run his words together when he gets excited about something

Worth1 · July 29, 2012

When we are around our own we tend to speak this way.
Some of us shut it off around other people, others don't.
The drawl stays because I am proud of it and it is part of my heritage.
Nothing to do with poor English or ignorance and seems to be becoming popular for some reason.
A trend so to speak.
Maybe folks just want to understand us.
Worth

halleone · July 29, 2012

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Originally Posted by Lcottomsvcs

My kids love okra pickles, they beg me to make them, and they are so easy. I keep about 12 plants and am able to put up 3-4 pints every week during the summer. It is my family's favorite pickle. This year I grew Burgundy okra, and the red pods turn the pickling liquid pink. Very pretty.

Sounds good if the kids beg for it. Is it a published recipe?

Lcottomsvcs · July 29, 2012

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Originally Posted by halleone

Sounds good if the kids beg for it. Is it a published recipe?

I got my recipe from the Ball Blue Book, it is super easy, the easiest pickle I've made, and they really love them. If you don't have a Blue Book, let me know an I will post the recipe.

b54red · August 7, 2012

Jerry so far there have been no nematodes hitting mine after using this method; but a friend of mine who has more nematodes used the same method and now he is starting to lose a few plants to them. He did not put out very many marigolds like I did though. Despite starting to have problems it sure beats what happened to him last year when all of his plants died when less than 3 ft tall from RKN.

I have been topping off my plants at about 8 ft and am getting sick of okra. I pick every day and give away 2 or 3 gallons of okra a week. My favorite way to eat okra is in gumbo but after making two large 3 gallon pots this summer I am even tiring of that. I am thinking of letting it go to seed early this year so I can get it out of the garden sooner. I hate trying to dig up okra trees and right now I have a very nice forest in one of my beds. Oh by the way the varieties that I prefer are Cowhorn and Becks with Cowhorn being the most productive; but Becks is the best for frying due to its larger diameter.

jennifer28 · August 7, 2012

I like to grow a little dwarf spineless okra. How do you save seeds from it? Do you just let the pod get really really big and then dry the seeds?

Worth1 · August 7, 2012

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Originally Posted by jennifer28

I like to grow a little dwarf spineless okra. How do you save seeds from it? Do you just let the pod get really really big and then dry the seeds?

Just let the pods stay on the plant and let them dry out.

Worth

b54red · August 7, 2012

Like Worth says just leave them on the plant. Watch for them starting to split open though. You need to pick them off when that starts to happen or most of the seed will fall out of the pods onto the ground.

July 28, 2012	#49
Lcottomsvcs Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 123	My kids love okra pickles, they beg me to make them, and they are so easy. I keep about 12 plants and am able to put up 3-4 pints every week during the summer. It is my family's favorite pickle. This year I grew Burgundy okra, and the red pods turn the pickling liquid pink. Very pretty. __________________ Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood

July 20, 2012	#47
jennifer28 Two-faced Drama Queen Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital Posts: 955	I will definitely try it. I don't have enough of my own to pickle, but I will go look for some. I don't think it is readily available here in Connecticut. I'll look online and see if I can order some.

July 29, 2012	#51
jennifer28 Two-faced Drama Queen Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital Posts: 955	One of my brother in laws is from Texas. I can't remember where, though... I want to say somewhere right outside san antone... Anyway he lives in Cali with my sister and both of them get teased for their accents. My sister because she talks like a "new yorker" and my brother in law because of his Texas accent. I don't have a hard time understanding him. I know there was a discussion about dialects and accents a while back. I found this web site that has sound bytes of different accents from around the country. It is really neat to listen to them, this link has all the Texas samples: http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica...exas/texas.htm

July 29, 2012	#52
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	You are hearing southern drawl what im am takenbowt izwinya putalawords tagetha antawk. Winyaheyait eyit looks like wadimwritenow. Worth

August 7, 2012	#57
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	Jerry so far there have been no nematodes hitting mine after using this method; but a friend of mine who has more nematodes used the same method and now he is starting to lose a few plants to them. He did not put out very many marigolds like I did though. Despite starting to have problems it sure beats what happened to him last year when all of his plants died when less than 3 ft tall from RKN. I have been topping off my plants at about 8 ft and am getting sick of okra. I pick every day and give away 2 or 3 gallons of okra a week. My favorite way to eat okra is in gumbo but after making two large 3 gallon pots this summer I am even tiring of that. I am thinking of letting it go to seed early this year so I can get it out of the garden sooner. I hate trying to dig up okra trees and right now I have a very nice forest in one of my beds. Oh by the way the varieties that I prefer are Cowhorn and Becks with Cowhorn being the most productive; but Becks is the best for frying due to its larger diameter.