Growing Okra in Raised Beds (Gumbo, Lady's Finger)
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Learn how to grow okra in raised beds. Okra or Gumbo or Lady Fingers grow great in raised beds. Here are the best tips and advice ever for growing Okra. You can use Okra in a variety of dishes.
Okra (US /ˈoʊkrə/ or UK /ˈɒkrə/; Abelmoschus esculentus Moench), known in many English-speaking countries as ladies' fingers, bhindi, bamia, or gumbo, is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It is valued for its edible green seed pods. The geographical origin of okra is disputed, with supporters of West African, Ethiopian, and South Asian origins. The plant is cultivated in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions around the world.
i like the way your "how to grow" videos are formatted, showing from germination to harvest with all tips in between so i don't have to find follow up videos. Thank you!
I think because most other channels don't have enough knowledge to put so much info one video and not run out!
I have been growing Okra for 1 1/2 seasons. I got here late for the first year. Okra has become my favorite crop. I live where it is hot and they grow like crazy, and so fast. Always the best videos, very relaxing to watch. I was worried you weren't going to talk. I had some red okra with the spineless and the red is beautiful and long like your Louisiana type you have here. My dogs like it also. Thank you again.
I love your voice. You explain things so well. Because of you im inspired.
Beautiful okra and excellent tips for growing! I sure wish we could grow it here.
OneYardRevolution Thanks for the feedback!
I made the mistake of starting my seeds in trays first, last year.
Thanks for the tip, as last years crop was an obvious failure.
Happiest Growing!
I love how beautiful the flower is! I am not a fan of how spicy Okra is but I have family members who enjoy it in Gumbo and deep fried..
***** Thank you! Yes the okra flowers are very beautiful, Thanks for reminding me about deep fried okra - Breaded or not, its very delicious!
Okra is not spicy at all...
Thank you for this video. I'm in CA too and growing veggies in our backyard. I love okra. I will follow your tips.
Nice to know, Happy Gardening!
Thanks for that information! I really want to give okra a try next year! I have been watching recipes.
this pruning tip helps me to grow my okra faster...lots of plants starts to flower when they are few inches tall, so what I do, I nip the bud and all the energy goes to the growth of the plant
Great post! Beautiful Okra. It is a staple here in the south. And yes what a beautiful bloom, related to the Hibiscus Flower. We joke around here that Okra is as easy to grow as weeds are out in the yard. And we never worry about insect damage to the okra plants. As few as dozen or more plants can keep a family of four eating okra for a complete year. .
1betrman Great to know its a staple in the south. We can only grow it from May thru October here in SoCal, however that is good enough to get a nice growing season. Cheers!!
Love okra, I've been growing 4 plants in a milk crate for 2 years now. I have 12 crates planted this year.
Hey mate, thanks for the informative video.. will be growing this next summer in Melbourne Australia..
Thank you so much, very informative videos. I love the Okra video can't wait to get started. You make it look so easy... :)
SG Awesome! We too love okra. I can eat okra every day :) Good luck!
CG i have learned a lot from your videos and i thank you.
Thanks for the video my Grandpa loved okra
and I do too we will grow some in remembrance
of him.
Thank you soo much for your videos, it has inspired me to grow veggies at home.
I have a couple of questions. I live in Colorado, so before my plant hardens the season the fall sets in and it dies, for this reason can i grow my seeds in full sized pots using grow lights inside the house and then put them out june or july so that i get a decent season? will that work. Thanks.
Beautiful Okra Video
it is a very good video about okra, thanks,
Horta em Baldes Thank you! Glad you liked it!!
thanks for this great info. My little okra kept getting the leaves eaten by crickets this summer. I didn't know it needed so much fertilizer, next year I will be able to grow them better.
DonnaldaSmolens Yes okra does need a lot of nutrients. Over the years I had grown okra with very less pods and a lot of insect damage but learned ways around it. A good way to feed okra plants is to use a slow release fertilizer which feeds up to 3 months and use a water soluble fertilizer in between every month or so. Or you can use water soluble fertilizers every 15-20 days, more when the pods are being produced. After the plants are about 5-6 feet tall, you can reduce or stop the feed till the end of the growing season..
thank you so much for this extra info. Appreciate it.
Hi my okra plants are growing well and flowering good but after flowering the okra pod become yellow dry and fell down...
so what should I do to grow okra pods healthy?....
Love the video and the music
Shoba Roberts Thank you, glad you liked it :) Happy Gardening!!
very nice video thanks for sharing
I love your videos.
WeAre NotAlone Nice to know you like the videos, thank you!
good video .. well done .. thx
Hi😉
Very interesting video.
Please could you tell me if okra likes water? How many times a week we should irrigate ?
Thanks
can u make a vedios with the tools required for pruning, harvesting and owning while growing . Links on buying stuff please
Nice video. How early can I start okra? Is it OK to start in spring or should I wait till summer?
Saroja Jayaraman Thanks for your feedback! Its best to start okra in late Spring or Early summer (May in California)
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing the tips. We are in Irvine, California, the weather is in mid 80s now, we are growing okra but it looks like the plant does not flower at all. What can be done?
Give it some organic fertilizer and worm tea. VermisTerra.com use coupon code cag
Thank you, will definitely give it a try!
My okra plant never produced a flower..all I’m seeing is the main fruits..I wonder why. Also I’m growing green fingers okra
Hi, I planted 3 seedlings in an 8-10 inch wide pot. All of them have germinated and are sturdy. Can I let all grow in 1 pot? I have space crunch because I am growing vegetables in my small balcony. OR Do you recommend moving the other2 plants into separate pots or maybe just thinning them out?
very well explain, simple clean and informatic, like also the background music. very nice video, i like it.
btw what is the title of the background music?
Qyden Tang Thank you, nice to know you liked the video and music. The music is called "Tonto" by artist "Silent Partner". Its available in RUclips music library.
Great video, full of good tips... TFS!!! Have been wanting to grow these for so long... I think I will this season... But where to get a hold of the seeds? I am in So Cal... BTW, bought the garden cart you recommended in another video and the raised beds as well :) thanks so much!
M S Nice to know you liked the videos and tips and also nice to know you bought the garden cart. I am sure you will enjoy it. Happy Gardening!
Hello sir, any video how to care seedings initially
Did you sow the okra seeds in the raised bed, because I sow mines into a small container and they germinate but they die after a week, and I really love okra and I am not going to stop until I get through, please what advice can you give me
Hai! What’s the minimum distance between two okra plants? What have you done here?
@californiagardening I'm doing a similar grow; I've got a 4'x4' garden bed and growing 20 okra plants. However, I'm a bit scared that the depth for my okra bed may not be sufficient. How deep was your garden bed?
Thanks you
hi, sorry if i offend you but im a beginner n i have plenty of questions about gardening... i just started my seed thrugh paper towel method.. they have sprouted n grown 2-3 inches long ... can i transfer it directly to big container?? and if not why? right now they are in paper cups
+KD Talwar Yes you can transplant your seedlings but only when they are about 5 inches tall since they are already in paper cups which have some space. You can do it right away too.
Can I grow okra by hydroponic system
Can I plant Okra seeds in 5kg yoghurt buckets??
when I sow the okra seeds I place them one every 6 inches later when they are about 6 inches tall I thin them to one every foot. then you can eat the okra plants that you pull up. The leaves are very good raw.
Jerilyn Holland Thanks for the tip!
Why did you keep garlic In okra bed
Thanks for the upload. What is the right pH of the soil for growing okra. How do we deal with root knot nematodes
Mohan Udiavar I do not bother too much with the PH and keep it at 7 as I do with most of the other veggies. As long as you do not add too much acid or alkaline matter, you should be OK
i think i'm doing smt wrong.
Maybe the soil or my weather (north italy is not the best) but i can't have mi Okra taller than 1.5 feet :/
Do you know how much sunlight is ideal? I only have about 5-6 hours of sun my plants are still fairly small.
***** Okra needs full sun so 6+ hours of sun. But the main stimulant for okra is heat, just lots of heat!
hi. my okra seeds have germinated already and I noticed they have little hairs like those found in tomatoes. does this mean it's okay to transplant them deeper like the tomato plants?
NO!!! Okra is very different from tomatoes! Do NOT plant it deep!
Hello cg,I just sowed two okra on the pot,and they sprouted,my question is are they supposed to like yellow?,lol I didn't see you prune the okra do you suppose to prune them?.lol
+Marietta Brennan No they should be green. Yellow is a sign of Nitrogen deficiency. You dont need to prune okra, the dead leaves fall down by themselves. You can trim the old dead branches though I did not prune my okra much.
Okra is very easy plant to grow and very prolific. Too bad I'm the only one in my family who likes it
I'm an American living in the Philippines. I have never grown Okra myself, but the neighbor has one very large Okra plant. For a while it was nice and green and producing. Now, it seems to be dying. I never saw any bugs, and there are quite a few flowers at the top. Does this mean it is going to seed? Will it rebound?
At the foot of the plant there is a vine growing. It isn't out of control, but does the Okra need a ton of nutrients and the vine is sucking up too much of it? Could that be the issue?
+Gary Verderamo Okra needs warm temps to survive and will die slowly in the winters and no produce pods. Okra does need nutrients just like other veggies. I hope that answers your questions!
California Gardening Well, it's quite warm here in the Philippines, so I will have to see what nutrients it needs most and tell my neighbor to get his butt in gear to add it if he wants to save his plant/tree. Thanks.
Thanks for the video. Have you ever let the Okra over winter in So. Cal so that it's ready to go next year or will it die out even in So. Cal? Thanks.
Harold Wong I think the okra will die slowly in Dec-Jan. You might get lucky with over wintering, however I like to maximize output from my growing space so I would suggest to remove the okra (you can wait till Dec end - it might produce till then) and replace the area with a winter crop like cabbage/cauliflower/radish/spinach etc. This is what I am planning on doing in December :)
California Gardening Thanks for responding. I shall pull them soon. Nothing is happening and the aphids are coming on strong.
Harold Wong Yes the aphids were all over my okra plants this week (I guess the cold season triggers the aphids on okras). They got a dose of 4tbsp neem oil in a gallon sprayer and most of them have seem to be dead now.
+California Gardening which brand of neem oil do you use? Could you share its link too. TIA.
+shweta G This one: amzn.to/1RpYf6n
Thank you cg,but what should I do?.
+Marietta Brennan Add this fertilizer to green them up: amzn.to/1PpYLn1
Thanks.
You are using the wrong type of secateurs to harvest your okra and wounding the plants.
They sell straight bladed snip type secateurs which work much better.
Oh I didn’t watch all the video before I asked my question, I did transplanted them into a bigger container so that’s why I think they die
which is the best fertilizer to increase the fruit production?
JAYDEEPSINH GHARIYA For Okra you can use a complete fertilizer like 10-10-10 or anything that is rated for vegetable and tomato growing. If you need examples or links from amazon, let me know!
+California Gardening Could you share the links from amazon as mentioned for the okra fertilizer (both organic and the regular one please), also can these fertilizers be used for tomato and eggplant as well? or do we need to use separate fertilizers? sorry too many questions..:)
+shweta G Sure, here is the organic fertilizer: amzn.to/1T6E57E and the regular one - Slow release, once every 3 months: amzn.to/1L3FucM or water soluble: amzn.to/1T6EbMD
+California Gardening Thank you so much also can i start the seedlings now in north California? also with the organic fertilizer do i need to mix it with the soil before i sow the seeds or how does it work. This is the first time i am planning to try okra plants so have many doubts sorry for so many questions.
+shweta G Yes you can mix it in the soil when planting. if its already planted, spread around the base and mix in with the soil!
my plant has a kind of insect on it it looks like water dew as I'm new at gardening don't know what to do any suggestion.thank you .
if it's under the leaf and looks like little clear eggs or water droplets it's totally normal and not an insect.
how many okras pods can b grown on a well grown plant?
please so that i need to decide how many plants required to grow.
+ziyana naaz Okra pods will produce endlessly, I was able to get at least 20 pods per plant!
+California Gardening thats great then 2 plants are more than enough.. if you share how many pods fruits we can harvest from a given plant creeper climber and pot size in each video it will help us to decide the quantity of plants need to plant. your videos are very informative and clear please do add these 2 points as well ☺
+ziyana naaz No, I would suggest planting at least 9 plants for a family of four. The pods produce very slowly unless you have hot weather.
+California Gardening oh i see by the i live in southern india here usually climate will be hot.
did you this before?,this is not organic?.
+Marietta Brennan I am not sure if I understand your question. Yes this is organically grown, all my veggies are!
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Am I the only one, who like eating them raw from the plant?
Fortilizar LOL
Babylon Gate is this the only thing you got from the whole video? 😂