I plant my seeds like you and never had problems.. Louisiana Boy👨‍🌾

son, you're planting it right... high summer will prove your method correctly. now cut it about 1/4" and toss with cornmeal and fry in bacon grease, and you'll have yourself an amazing dinner offering. i've been doing this since 1974, and it makes a delicious dish for a southern meal.

Good information. You can speed sprouting as several have said, by soaking the seed until the seed coat cracks. Overnight is long enough. They will GROW in soil cooler than the temperature they need for germination ... so I had good results getting a head start by germinating them in soil blocks on a heat mat and growing them under lights until I saw a couple of true leaves, then planting them out. They need dirt, HEAT (lots of heat!), full sun, and reliable water. I mulched them heavily and used a drip tubing. I didn't fertilize them and grew them in heavy alkaline desert clay or alkaline sandy desert dirt. The plants (Clemson spineless) were about 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide for most of the season, so give them room.

Okra has become one of my favorite crops to grow.

Our planting area is SUPER small, but my neighbor said I can borrow a corner of his for growing some okra! I did not start it yet, and he scolded me, but our last frost average date is about a 7-10 days ago, so I think I'm likely okay! For space, I will start them indoors, and I'm going to be very careful to resist planting them too deep. Thanks for your advice on this! (Also, right now, I'm eating the first romaine and spinach I ever grew this week--from seedlings, not seed, but still! Also, my tulips are blooming. Until now, I couldn't experience these things. I feel really blessed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and encouragement!)

Thank you. I'm planting okra today

I had a new raised bed and the bagged potting mix abd fertilizer I had blended in started composting. The soil was 120 degrees. I was leaving town and had some Okra starts to put in. Did it anyway as I figured it would cool off by the time the roots got down very far. The Okra loved it. Doing great.

Your right on with the garden master sir !

Thank you for the tips! I did a small patch of okra last year and it did alright, but I think i needed to thin them out more and really it wasnt making enough to harvest and the plants didnt get too tall. i noticed one popped up in the corner of a bed on its own and had let it grow there and with nothing else near by that thing grew into a monster 6 foot tall thing with a thick stalk. so i guess they really need the space!! this year i've actually tilled a large area next to my raised bed garden and plan to do a row in ground. hoping they do as well as that one stray one did!

You have a beautiful garden!

Thank you. I needed that info.

Such good information ❤Thanks so much!

Great tips thanks😀👍

Good tips to remember for Okra. Tell Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Jeff Foxworthy it's time for another tour.

I enjoyed watching that! I’m growing Okra for the first time this year so that was very helpful advice! I will be sure to plant my okra shallow! Up here in the Toronto area I have to wait until June 10th to sow my okra. I happily use commercial fertilizer too. That’s a great looking garden! God bless Klaus

Loved this video, soooooo helpful❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing❤❤❤❤

I love okra love growing them also

Thank you.

Thank you, from Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

Ty for tips

This was the first time I watched you on KZfaq I plan on playing some okra I’m here in Biloxi Mississippi on the gulf coast I’m doing a lot of container garden . My soul in the backyard is not good I have large landscaping buckets this is my question can I use calcium nitrate on most of my vegetables including okra thank you for all you do for us and teaching us the right way and a wrong way of planting, God bless

Here in Canada (near Toronto) I've been able to get direct sown okra to germinate in late May. Our frost free season is pretty long - around 180-190 days, but the first month of that tends to be too cool for okra to germinate/grow, and the last month tends to be too cool to get the plants to set fruit properly (it'll still grow and put out the odd flower though). So basically we get 120 days of growing season that's usable, which translates to 2-2.5 months of fresh okra, so I like to start my okra as early as I can. If I leave the soil on the dry side, and unmulched, in a sunny spot, the sun can usually warm it pretty good, like today it reached 80F even though the air only got to about 72F, and a few days ago the soil got to 89F even though the air only got to 87F. I thinkin my area, from mid-May onwards, if the long range forecast has nights in the 50s-60s, and there's a forecast for days in the 80s, then sowing just before those 80F+ temps should work. That usually happens only in late May/early June rather than mid-May though. The shallower the seed, the warmer the soil is, and the less the seedling has to deplete the energy stores within the seed to reach the surface, so I agree with 1/2 inch planting depth (1 inch max). Often I also pre-germinate okra seeds by putting them in a moist paper towel and putting that somewhere warm (like in my pocket...), usually it only takes 8-16 hours for the radicle to start pushing out. This year I also started some seedlings indoors, to transplant after 3-5 weeks. We'll see how that approach compares.

Hello sir. I want to say thank you for this video and it was very helpful for me. I was searching about okra because i transplanted my seedlings I grew and now they look wilted. I don't know if i should just plant some more. I think they got transplant shock. Im in Zone 8b, South Georgia. Also new subscriber here and I love your land. 🌱🌿🍀Happy Gardening 🌱 Last year my Okra did phenomenal. This year I transplanted them in the ground and now they look sad. 😫

Thanks plant the depth of your seed...

Nice sized garden, appreciate the video's. Do you not have deer?

Good morning great video thanks for sharing u answer all my questions , please have a great day

Anyone know where to get those large bags of Seed? I order from a Heirloom Seed place but they come in packets like Burpee or whatever. Also, make herself some Okra Popsicles-just freeze them. Nice for eatin' on a hot day when you've been out in the Sun. Never was much for Okra till I grew my own, ate it fresh and developed my own coating for the Fryin'.

I soak mine over night and make sure that ground is warm and that's it. Simple. Spineless I grow 12 to 14 foot

Okra is the only reason I garden.

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What part of the country are you in? I figure May is good time to put my okra out in Tn

That is a large garden. Is that fine Troybuilt tiller your only tractor? I was lucky I had a farmall model A I plowed first then used the troybuilt. Everything looks good. Have a great day playing in the dirt. I look forward to it every year.

Hey y’all, in Charleston,SC Lowe’s is selling veggies plants for $ 4.98 ☹️ keep on gardening ‼️

Great video! Thank you for sharing. This is our first year at our new place and first time growing okra. We are in eastern Ohio and planted mid-June 2022. It’s now the first week in September 2022. We have big (maybe 5.5’ tall) green plants on a southern facing slight hill. We aren’t getting any blooms but a couple of seeds fell in another garden bed and already has 3 blooms but the plant is tiny. Any thoughts on what could be wrong? I planted and thinned my rows to 1’ between plants and 3’ between rows. Maybe I over planted? Or do I just need to wait longer?

i like small pods cut up raw in salads. okra and squashes are good this way.

I like my okra plants no closer than 2 feet. I had a friend whose plants were only 2" to 4" apart. plants were small but the Okra pods were so woody you couldn't eat them. Even at 2" apart, when they matured, they were very thick but the pods were tender and plentiful.

To make it easy on yourself when time to thin plant 3 ft apart with about 3 or 4 seed to hole

Have you ever canned okra for frying later

First time okra growing this year in East TN.

Hiram Hillbilly says thanks you have a good day

Can fairly mature plants started indoors be transplanted outdoors when there will still be a few nights dipping to 50-55°f? Up here in Canada, I'm trying to stretch my okra growing season. Soil temperature should be good though by now after a solid heat wave of highs around 90° and lows around 70°

I save my Okra seeds so I can plant them thick and then thin out the weak.

Might be a silly question, my husband and I are about this. Do you just plant on flat ground or make little hills? Did that last year, after having to plant twice they did ok.

Have you tried malabar spinach or egyptian spinach for your area? As hot as it gets in the southern us I'm curious what your take on those are.

Can the okro be perennial in a hot country like Jamaica

Hi, when you plant them so closely, do you end up thinning them later? If and when you thin them, how tall are the okra plants? Thank you from Dallas Texas

My okra came up good but my cowpeas are struggling. potatoes are blooming and green beans are climbing.

I bet you're her favorite son- in- law when those peanuts come in,lol

My okra is about 3 feet high and the flower pods are falling off before they set- what’s up with that?

Question! I’m in Illinois and the deer ate all my okra plants last night 😩 (June 29th) can I still plant and have a harvest before the fall?

How often does okra need fertilizer and what type is recommended

I put okra in a cup starter. Is it ever going to sprout? If not, what should I do?

Them folks planting deep done had stuff dry out and not grow cause they didn't keep it watered right.

Can you plant okra a season after you planted tomatoes there? thanks!

It's fixin to be okra temp.

Ok im new to gardening and i had no idea that one seed would actually work so i was dumb and put a few in i have raised beds so now how do i split the plant up because it looks like all seedlings took lol!😅😂

Where do you buy your seeds from?

Hello sir, have you heard of no till gardening?

How long does it take oak to germinate?

How do you keep the deer out of your beautiful garden?

Did you use cattle panels or hog panels for you bran trellis

Hey man are you in Alabama? That soil looks like mine, and you sound like us

Where is your fertilizer?

Okra is the only crop where I don't need to do anything but water

How do you keep deer out of your garden?

Okra don't really care about anything but warmth. Poor soil, inconsistent water, pests, whatever. Give it full sun if you have to plant it around the mailbox.

Summary: Plant Okra one inch deep, not 2-3 inches deep. No need to watch the 9 minute video

I'm just getting started. I read and study books. You plant seeds 2/3 inches a part. It said that OKTA needs more room like one per square feet. You seem to drop two seeds together? Only viewed this vedio for study and curiosity sake. Not sure how much of a trained farmer you are. On the Central CA Coast there is lots of agriculture business.

2 inch. Works for me ..soil bed then small piece of banana skin then manure then seed and finally cover with dirt and water from top

That’s no garden it a farm

Okra..ugh. blah. first mistake planting okra is, planting okra..lol

Your soil quality look pretty bad. Have you considered incorporating more organic material, biochar, and humus?

Too much talk, not enough information.

It’s pronounced oh - kree 😂