You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hey there. Welcome back to another episode of the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm super excited to be talking with you today about growing okra. Maybe you already grow okra and you love it and you're just wanting to up your game a little bit. You want to make sure that you are doing everything you can to get the most of your okra harvest. Or maybe you've tried okra in the past, but it just hasn't worked out so well for you or maybe you're in a

northern climate and you think you can't grow okra i'm going to be talking to you all about that too

with some tips on how to grow okra if you are in a cooler northern climate or you know you may not

like okra you may have never tried Okra. And you're listening to this

because you're kind of curious, or maybe you're just a regular podcast listener, and I'm super

happy to have you here, even if you don't think you want to grow Okra. But my goal is to convince

you to try it this year. I'm just not going to apologize for that. I think everyone needs

okra growing in their garden. Of course, I may be a little bit biased because if there was one

vegetable that my mom always had on the table growing up, it was okra. Growing up in Arkansas,

it was the vegetable that everyone ate in the summer, at least around

my house.

And it's one of those that my mom grew in the garden, and we had fresh all the time.

And there is nothing like, and there is nothing like fresh-picked fried okra.

I know I am showing you that I'm from the the south as if you can't hear it in my

accent i'm sure but it is just so good and my hope is that more people will enjoy this vegetable

not only because it is a pretty easy crop to grow i mean it's one of those that once you do get it established,

it's one of those crops that makes you happy to be in the garden. But also, it's a beautiful

plant. If you've ever grown it before and you see those flowers, they are stunning. They're

actually a relative of the hibiscus and cotton family. So if you're familiar with the

hibiscus, you know that's a really pretty landscaping shrub, and okra is a relative. But not only

okra's beauty, which I have known people who have grown okra in their front yards because of

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