Okra Comparison. Which should you grow? You may be surprised!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- We planted two types of okra this year to see which one we think will be best for our farm in the years to come. We planted heavy hitter, and Clemson spineless. You may be surprised at the results.
Growing Heavy Hitter Okra can be a great addition to your vegetable garden. With its large and vigorous plants and pods, it's a popular choice for gardeners. Plant the okra seeds in well-drained soil after the last frost has passed. Water the plants regularly and be sure to apply a balanced fertilizer to promote healthy growth. Pruning the lower leaves and branches encourages growth up the stem, and harvesting the pods frequently will help to prolong the growing season. With these tips, you should be able to grow beautiful and healthy Heavy Hitter Okra plants that provide you with fresh, delicious okra pods to enjoy all summer long.
Good morning Ms.Jill
I planted Clemson spineless , star of David and The red burgundy last summer , I was out there daily harvesting otherwise , in 1 day they got woody & just not edible , I froze 4 gallon size bags - 1st flash freezed then put in gallon bags so u can pull out what you need .
I couldn't get out there & take up the stalks as had emergency back surgery in October.
Oh my do I have a bunch of volunteers which my husband needs to take some out as they r to close together.
I love star of Davids & the Clemson spineless myself .
God bless you & your family .
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I have never eaten raw okra before, but when I saw you do it I went and picked some and ate it right off the plant. Wow that was good and flavorful, I was surprised. Thanks.
Lol I’m so happy you tried it! It’s so good isn’t it!
I saved seed from my Heavy Hitter last year and replanted them. So far they're looking good.
Virginia zone 7a here. We planted Heavy Hitter and Jambalaya okra seed this season. 16 of each for a total of 32 in a 4'x4' raised bed. They're doing very well. We're from GA and love our fried okra! My wife went out in the garden today and got a surprise. Our Seychelles green pole beans were ready for picking!! She was able to snap and fill a 1-GAL ziplock bag. We're in the enhanced severe weather path for this afternoon/evening. Praying the winds go easy and the hail stays away. You and the hubby are some troopers fighting through that heat and humidity. Stay safe!!
You be careful Mr. W! ❤️
Great info. I will have to try some of the Heavy Hitter okra. I tried one last year that a lot of people like and suggest. It did not do well for me. Total loss. I stopped growing the Clemson Spineless because of pest pressure that I do not have on other varieties. Canned the last of the green beans this past weekend.
They look delicious…I just don’t care for them. I keep trying though. I ate some last week and nope…not a fan. But they say your taste buds change every 7 years, so I’ll keep trying. I’ve enjoyed many foods I didn’t like, Lima beans for one. I love them today, so it’s possible I’ll enjoy them in the future. Had to say I’m a person who never says never. Keep trying, sooner or later you’ll (I’ll) know!
Fry them!
I’ve grown Alabama red for the last two years here in lower Alabama. They taste great but I like the narrower okra for pickling. I need to find a different variety to try next year.
That was a pretty good eye opener, Jill. Thanks for that comparison. Sad to say, I don't care much for okra except I do love it pickled only. I don't know how big my eyes got when you said you eat it right off the bush but I wish I liked it like that.
Praying the Lord to drop the temps even a few degrees. Saw where you could hang frozen water bottles on front of fan to cool air a bit.
Not sure if this will help anyone: friend passed this on to me couple of days ago. Homemade electrolyte drinks. She gave me a recipe; so I googled it and there seem to be some delicious sounding recipes out there. Stay safe. Jesus bless.
I'm growing okra for the first time. God bless you and your family ✝️💖
Jill, I hardly ever comment but just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your videos. I'm going to try the Heavy Hitter variety. I've learned so much from your channel. Tell Pop I said hello & I said a prayer for him since I know how much he must miss his wife. ❤ Love from SE Texas
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Trying both Clemson spineless and Heavyhitter this year. Excited to see the results. Just started getting a few pods a day and hoping for enough to pickle as well. Love pickled okra! Blessings
Thank you for doing this video. I've been waiting for someone to display and talk about the Heavy Hitter. I live in CA and it didn't perform well for me last year. I'm trying again this year.
I've grown Emerald the last 2 years with great success and they don't get woody until the pods are huge. I added Star of David this year, we will see how they do. Last year I planted Bowling Red and they tasted fine but I didn't get many. Previously I did the Clemson Spineless, but I hate having to toss them when they are a day too long on the plant. Anyway, yours look really healthy and in a couple weeks you won't know what to do with all those pods!
thanks for more golden gardening info! Love to see what is working for you and the seed saving tip! I'm going to give the heavy hitter a shot, my Clemson spineless is producing short, fat okra.
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Hey there, I'm from North Texas and I have grown Clemson spineless for 6 years or so. In past years they have been extremely productive but this year the plants are already about 4 ft tall and they're barely starting to produce fruit. Usually they start producing fruit even when they're 1 ft tall. These seeds are new to me, I decided to use some from the feed store so I don't know if it is genetics. Also, my Clemson spineless have never been smooth like that. The kind that I have that look like yours is called emerald velvet. I have started growing those as well. One of my sisters has grown those a couple of years and like them and I started growing those this year too and they look like the one that you are holding up that you said was a Clemson spineless.
BIG okra fan! We are growing Star of David & Burgundy okra this year. Burgundy has worked well for us in the past…. Trying out SofD. We are on the very western edge of Ft. Worth, just in Parker County. Good Gardening! Thanks for sharing your knowledge & experience!
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I’ve been growing Heavy Hitter for 3 or 4 years now? I won’t bother with any other variety. They are gorgeous, delicious and are seem to be bug resistant. The main stalk gets very sturdy so when the frost comes I use my mini chainsaw to cut them back. The stalk stumps STILL produced another few suppers. It’s an amazing variety! ✌🏻 I’m in SE TN zone 7
Another trick is what we call “whooping” in the South, if you take a switch and beat the plant it starts to produce again haha, the science behind it is stress.
@@PunjabiPryde I love when good info like this is told. This sounds like a great crop to grow if you need an outlet for stress!
Right there with ya hoping our tomatoes complete their growth so I can - can more of them!! This heat and heat index is getting to us all both us and our garden. My boy german shepherd the other day went missing when we were in the garden. He walked all the way back up to our home and went in the dog door to lay on the cool tile floor. Getting fresh water for my chickens very early tomorrow mornimg before more heat comes on as we still are at 99 degree heat index at 10:30 p.m.
Everything looks so good in your gardens. We have had mostly rainy weather here and not much sunshine 😞 so I’m not sure we’re going to get a good harvest this year. Blessings to you and Greg 🙏🏻❤️
Oh no! I’m so sorry Rhonda
Yes indeed I like raw okra fresh out the garden and I have been growing Heavy Hitter okra for the last 3 years prolific harvest.
I am growing heavy Hitter for the third growing season in houston, TX zone 9a harvesting was a hit and miss,but they survived the artic blast.
Clemson spineless was what I grew for years. I've been growing star of David the last couple of years for the bigger diameter. Emerald green was another one I liked, seemed smoother than the Clemson spineless. I tried burgundy and orange jing and they were terrible producers, got tough at small size.
I'm not impressed with the clemson although its flavorful...I am not seeing the production though from it like the heavy hitter.
@@ntxg every year will be different. I plant mine thick so it grows taller competing with each other so I don't have to bend over to pick it. Lol. I don't have any irrigation so I'm stuck with mother nature for water. Can't let it get long. My well is only 13 ft deep and that's what we survive on. Pond water has introduced some bacteria into my containers and some plants can't tolerate it. Always something to fix . I'll solarize the containers to try and kill any pathogens to try and save the soilless mix.
Easiest way to tell if they are too mature is to bend the end of it. If it breaks it’s good, if it just bends, it’s too old
ok, this is so weird. My Clemson Spineless looks ribby like your Heavy Hitter. I have never gotten any Clemson Spineless to grow as long as your smooth one without getting the ribs (spines). Strange. One thing is right these little buggers DO sneak attack! lol So crazy how fast these little pods grow in one day.
Oh that is weird!!!!
I'm growing the newly released open pollinated version of Annie Oakley okra. Doing great.
Yay!!!
I like to turn okra into Seasoning powder,heavy Hitter gave me 60 seeds
I have red burgundy beginning to make and I’m putting Clemson in this week. We had a cooler than normal June so it’s not too late. One of my gardening friends says “okra will grow in hell!” 😂
Looolololo
That's funny cuz I say we get hotter and more humid than Satan's armpits 😂
I'm trying heavy hitter, motherland, yavlova ( I think that's the name), and another one I've forgotten. Planted today except yavlova I planted and already set out.
This year is the year to try various things to see which performs best for me. I'm in SE Texas.
I’ve never heard of Heavy Hitter! I know this is last year video but I’m just seeing it. 😁 Now I’m going to go looking!!
We have seeds! www.alvaradocommunityfarm.com
Thank you for that info!
Ohhhh…you have lots of seeds!! I’m going to shop when I take a break from working!!
Nice results from heavy hitter. In north east Texas all I grow is Choppee and Burmese. The reason is these don’t grow tall fast like some other southern varieties so you can trim the bottom leaves and chase the pods as the stalks grow and make harvesting both easier and last over a longer period without having to have ladders or cut down excessively tall okra plants. Both are excellent at remaining tender as the pods get quite long. I collect my own seeds as well so if you want to try them I would swap you for some of your heavy hitter to trial that out here. I don’t water or spray my okra or fertilize so they are expressing full genetics for minimal care and produce well for me even in my black gumbo clay with the only amendment being a mulch layer laying on top of the surface to keep the sun from reaching the clay and baking it into cracked dry ground. Choppee is smooth so it is he better choice of my two for all canning and pickling in jars as you can squeeze more in packed together. Burmese is ridged so it has more surface area for breading and frying but I don’t think it’s as thick as heavy hitter but it also grows tall slower than most southern varieties and also stays tender even as the pods grow longer. I love the taste of mine as I eat mine raw off the plant as well every day. Very little okra makes it inside to the kitchen here 😂.
Let’s talk more!
@@ntxg I looked up Johnson county. My county gets an average of 7 inches additional rainfall per year being northeast of Johnson so you may have to grow them the same as you have been. Or trial them multiple ways to see how they perform under various methods under your rainfall and soil differences.
I just saw you are market gardening. If you are looking for something near maximum production also trial some Jambalaya variety. I don’t grow it as it does have a reputation for some very strong okra stings but I know a lot of market gardeners like it for the productivity. But they do get woody at shorter lengths and need to be stayed on top of. However, it is a hybrid, so if you are wanting to be self sufficient and collect and replant your own seed it won’t be a go.
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Your Clemson pods are more smooth than I remember mine last year, almost like a Perkins Long Pod okra. I believe that Heavy Hitter was created by a fellow Oklahoman and I'll have to try it out next year to support local. This year I'm growing Jambalaya Okra and it is super productive and starts producing when the plants are only about a foot tall. That is a big downfall with Clemson in my book they take longer to start producing and the plants can get 14 feet fall.
I live in the "crossroads " Of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri! It seems the only REAL helpful info I can get is from TEXAS! I've found that with a cup of "mother wit", my TX info gives me a pretty good garden every year. I'm 82 and still trying. Last year, just for fun, I let my okra get over 12 feet tall just to 'shut down' some local braggarts! This year my wife and I are moving to a smaller country town just 20 miles away and since we have around 20 "lick/mineral tubs and too darn many pots, grow bags, kiddie pools (for gro bags) we are taking the chance of moving our "lick tubs" with growing plants and full of REAL GOOD soil, but HEAVY! I did a 'dummy move' of crowding my okra in an effort to keep growing at our new home. Any suggestions for the move? ...or have I just lost the rest of my mind? 🤣
Ps. Would you do a video on seed saving for the green beans?
Yes!
@@ntxg thank you
My okra is really struggling. Some critter is eating on the leaves have never had that before.
Ugh!!!!
I am growing okra for the first time this year! Any advice? Im in zone 7b nc if that matters much lol.
I'm new to your channel. What vegetables seeds do you save and how do you save your seeds. My brother and I don't eat okara. I can't do to face issues. That not my brother favorites. So we grow what we eat which is mostly peppers and tomatoes right now. Trying to pumpkins but the aphids and pumpkin flie attracted one of my plants. However i hoped to plants cucumber next years in container with cover so they get eaten again. Thanks for doing these videos on container gardening.
You’re so welcome gal! Please look through my channel and you’ll see several videos on seed saving
Is it to late to 0lant Clemson spineless? I'm in NE TX just same as you. Yours look GREAT!
Nah! I’d give it a try
I planted a few seeds a couple weeks ago and they just sprouted this morning. These were OLD seeds. I emphasize old because they were some I found going through my mom's stuff and she has been gone 9 years. The package was in a Ziploc bag and couldn't read the date. Lol. I planted some of her other seeds from 1990's and had some come up. Okra likes hot weather and I will plant some more this week.
Jill, I normally slice my okra & freeze it. Looked for videos on how to can okra for frying, but none were approved recipes. My husband will only eat it fried. Do you ever can your okra? Thanks.
No but I did a video last year on how to bread and freeze for frying
Have you ever grown the Baby Bubba okra? I was thinking of trying it this year and would like to hear advice or feedback on it.
I haven’t!
I never watch Okra Winfry.
Lololololol tooooo funny that’s what me and my BFF call it
If you let one pod go to seed, will the plant stop producing like cucumber plants?
Not right away!
Hi, I am trying to get some okra seeds on Amazon to grow but I am wondering what's the actual name of the 'heavy hitter'? 😃
We have them on our website. They are the heavy hitter.
www.alvaradocommunityfarm.com
@@ntxg awesome. Thanks.
I have cooked and ate okra different ways, but I don't think I have ever ate a fresh okra.
Try it!!!
Hey Jill, can we freeze dry okra? Cause, if we CAN.. 😁😁I only grow one plant, because I'm the only one that eats it. But, ummm, If it can be freeze dried..L-O-O-K out 😂😂🤣🤣
Yes you can!
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Where can we find your email address? I would like to visit your market.
hbjtexas2020@gmail.com
Ms. Jill I have a quick question, I am in the Dallas area and have had no luck growing any okra this year. Some pest is eating my leaves to the stalk overnight, what do you use for prevention? I’ve tried neem oil it’s been working 50/50