Growing Okra: Southern Food In The Garden

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Epic Gardening

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Did you know okra is actually a fruit? Growing okra is surprisingly simple, and it’s a great addition to your cooking. We enjoy okra, or the lady’s finger, in many ways: raw, cooked, roasted, or pickled. However, despite looking quite similar to other green vegetables, the okra pods contain seeds that definitely categorize it as a fruit.

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:03.0	What's up,
0:04.0	what's up?
0:06.0	What's up?
0:07.0	What's up,
0:10.0	everyone? Let's talk today about growing okra which is honestly a really
0:18.2	delicious fruit and it is a fruit that I have a cool memory of.
0:23.2	So I was in New York, it was back when I was working at a publishing company.
0:26.6	I was on the founding team of a publishing company
0:28.4	and we were out there for our quarterly meeting
0:32.1	and I was really hungry so I hit up this soul food
0:35.8	kitchen that was in the area I was staying and I walked in and I knew I wanted
0:40.3	collard greens first of all but the okra looked enticing.
0:45.2	It looked really enticing.
0:46.2	It looked really good, but I hadn't had it prepared quite that.
0:48.4	It was like a fried okra dish.
0:50.2	So I asked the guy there, I said, hey, do you mind I try the fried okra?
0:53.4	I haven't really had it before. I just want to see if I like it before I order it.
0:57.5	And he said, oh, you don't have to try it, just have it. And he gave me, he's like, he was so confident,
1:02.4	he gave it to me just a heaping pile of it on a plate and
1:06.7	Literally it was enough to just eat that and I would be satiated, but of course then I bought a bunch more food from this man it was absolutely delicious and so
1:14.4	it got me thinking about growing okra in the garden it's believed to have originated in
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