Saturday Gardening and Puttering Thread, September 25

Hi KT,
Managed to capture an Okra flower for you. They are quite pretty I think. I am not sure if regular okra has the same color of flower, but these are a lovely shade of yellow. Found a recipe for grilled okra that I am going to try on the next ones that ripen. It says that if you grill them they aren't slimy. I will let you know.
Wee Kreek Farm Girl

Well, I happen to have a photo of the flower from a green okra plant growing in Japan, along with some other veggies:

Tomatoes, pretty much like they grow here:

Edamame soybeans:

Plants in pots, featuring bitter gourd:

Looks like this one didn't get fully pollinated:

The bitter gourd (nigauri/goya) is used much like we use squash, except it has a bitter flavor. So you don't tend to pile it on the way you would in a squash casserole, and you tend to combine it with other things that complement or mediate the bitter flavor -- meats, fish, various leafy vegetables, . . .

Bitter gourds making faces in the kitchen:

Best Days from the Farmers Almanac

Best Days, Sept. 25

Cut Hair to Slow Growth,
Quit Smoking,
Wash Wooden Floors,
Kill Plant Pests, like lanternflies
Mow to Slow Growth,
Buy a Car,
Host a Party,
Write

Maybe on Tuesday, you could brew beer, can fruits and vegetables or get married.

By-Tor has a recipe for us. You can also use home-grown beets:

Pickled beets. Easy and delicious.

2 cans of sliced or whole beets
1/2 cup of some any kind of vinegar

1/2 cup of sugar
Cloves and or allspice
Drain juice of beets into saucepan. Add vinegar and sugar and bring to boil. Adjust vinegar and sugar to your liking. Sprinkle in some whole cloves or allspice if you like.
Add a couple peeled hard boiled eggs for pickled eggs.
These will stay good in the fridge for a couple weeks but you'll probably eat them before that.

Small-ish Wildlife

When you know an entomologist:

"Murder Hornets" must be the most misunderstood creatures on earth! This one is so gentle and docile. You may even call her photogenic? No, she's not trying to sting me. She's completely relaxed! Just chilling on my finger.

Media came up with the term murder hornets. Their scientifically accepted common name is Asian giant hornets. They are no more dangerous to people really than other hornets, just bigger. The reason this individual is so chill is because she just came from the freezer. She's dead.

Don't they kill other bees just to be dominant?

No, they kill them for food. They will ravage a colony of bees, killing hundreds upon hundreds, and then cart some of them off to their own nest to feed the brood.

Japanese bees kill these hornets with heat.

Any idea what the sting would be like, if she decided you were a threat?

One guy described it as having a hot tack driven into your flesh. Fortunately, dead wasps can't decide much of anything.

Moron Robbie is kind of tired of scary spiders like black widows. Enjoy your pre-Halloween reprieve, Moron Robbie:

We've got a green lynx spider in our front porch area. Don't look it up if you dislike spiders. Imagine a bright green orb weaver, except a huntress that doesn't make webs.
First one I've ever seen, and that is the norm since they're usually on plants and not using webs.
Gorgeous spider.

Here's a spider video with some nice, soothing meditative music:

Houseplants

You may remember from the end of July when I wrote about a houseplant disaster, and my attempts to recover some life from it.

Well, where there is life, there is hope.

The start in the jar on the right above didn't make it. Couldn't seem to get any root growth.

But we have have several survivors after two months. Now you have to look hard to see the toothpicks that stabilized the stems in the first two plant-outs from water:

I think we have two varieties of Pothos there, a yellow-variegated one and a slower-growing white-variegated one. The white-variegated one was planted on its side to avoid burying a leaf that emerged at the same leaf node as a root. And to avoid detaching a larger leaf from the root.

And yes, that is red duct tape. Boo-boo while slicing the bottle apart.

How are your houseplants doing? Your plastic plants?

Weather

It's been cooling off at night around here. When it seems overcast but the forecast says "sunny", it's from smoke. How's your weather?

My cousin and his wife are in Alaska. Healy, Alaska on Sept 20:

Alaskan Husky Sled Pup. These are National Park Service working dogs. Park Service Rangers switch from vehicles to dog sleds in the winter.

The seasons are changing.

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Posted by: K.T. at 01:10 PM

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1 Hello, beautiful thread

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:12 PM (ONvIw)

2 My cactus has marvelously flowered (flowers the size of my hand) all over, about 20 blossoms. I hope I get fruit this year. Look like shaved Dragon fruit; red on the outside, white on the inside, seeds small, black and crunchy, no thorns on the outside.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

3 I haven't done much this summer. Just weeding, fertilizing and encouraging my slower growing roses to get with it.
The dog roses set beautiful hips, and has a few more canes growing. The gallicas are finally looking healthy, and I should have them blossoming away next spring. I bought very young plants and had a lot of blooding and boning to do.
I wish I could grow beautiful veg, but the rabbits and giant deer vermin won't cooperate.

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:17 PM (ONvIw)

4 Perhaps I should send a pic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

5 Kids is getting married soon and they're both avid gardeners. I sent a large care package of muscari and allium to help out.
I know deer leave those alone.

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:20 PM (ONvIw)

6 If I ever saw a "murder" hornet I would likely scream like a little girl, but that's just because I have a natural aversion to the yellow stingy insects. And these hornets are really big.

My shed has wasps, all the time. But they build small nests, and despite their fearsome appearance, are not very aggressive, and I have only been stung a couple of times as I fetched the lawn mower or a rake. When that happens I wait till nightfall and then soak the nests with spray. Black Flag is the best for that. Otherwise I leave them alone.

Yellow jackets, on the other hand, are pure evil.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 25, 2021 12:21 PM (x8Wzq)

7 5 should read kid2

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:21 PM (ONvIw)

8 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Was looking over what's left of garden this morning
Finally have a few ripe sweet peppers, have had 4 Anaheim so far. Tomatoes are barely producing, had enough daily but not much more all year.

Posted by: Skip at September 25, 2021 12:22 PM (2JoB8)

9 Those okra flowers are gorgeous. I love that shade of yellow.

Container tomatoes got some sort of fungus or virus, so I've been pruning those. The middle parts of each vine are putting out blossoms still, so I'm trundling them in and out of the garage because the nights have been chilly. If those blossoms will fruit, I might at least get another crop of green ones for relish. If they don't, then I can give up till next year.

Have thought all summer long, I'll never do this again! But find myself picking out which seeds I want to try next spring.

Posted by: skywch at September 25, 2021 12:22 PM (QVgqY)

10 6 yes.I always kill yellow jackets, but let the other stinger things live.

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:22 PM (ONvIw)

11 Some bugs seeming froze I think can reanimate

Posted by: Skip at September 25, 2021 12:23 PM (2JoB8)

12 11 not good news

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:24 PM (ONvIw)

13 Nights getting cooler here. In the 40s.

Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 12:27 PM (RRGka)

14 As kids we'd always catch fireflies, put them in a Pringles can and put in the freezer, thinking we could reanimate them later.

Don't know where we ever got the idea.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 25, 2021 12:28 PM (vuisn)

15 Cleared the garden this morning. Planted a section of 20' pipe and attached a flag bearing TRUMP 2024 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS.

Heh. See how long it takes that obese jackass from Nortt Joisey across the steet to make a comment at me.

Posted by: BluesFish at September 25, 2021 12:28 PM (kPJ/p)

16 I always kill yellow jackets, but let the other stinger things live.
Posted by: CN

Some had taken over a chipmunk hole in the backyard. I discovered them when I was filling the birdbath out there and one got under my t-shirt.
I dusted the hole with boric acid and that slowed them down.
I went out the next morning to see if I needed to do it some more and the ground was torn up by a skunk (I think) and only a few larvae were in the tossed dirt. I scraped the dirt back into the hole and...next morning it was all torn apart. I guess to get the larvae it missed the night before.

Good job Stinky!

Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2021 12:29 PM (vd8XM)

17 jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 12:15 PM

Wow. That cactus sounds intriguing.

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 12:29 PM (0ghg2)

18 Wife's high dollar raised tank bed was pretty much a bust. Got a few tomatoes, a few beets and a few turnips.

Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 12:31 PM (RRGka)

19 Of note on Okra, if you chop them up, toss them with some oil and salt/pepper and roast them in the oven, they also are not slimy.

And taste amazing, as 3/4 of my children will attest. 2 of them say it's their favorite food.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 25, 2021 12:33 PM (/dFNd)

20 Killing yellow jackets buys good karma.

Posted by: ZOD at September 25, 2021 12:33 PM (E85uj)

21 It does seem like a lot of trouble and expense just to end up with a few veggies, we're so used to buying them from the store. But I sure have learned a lot about gardening this year, compared to "nothing" before, so I guess that's a positive.

Posted by: skywch at September 25, 2021 12:34 PM (QVgqY)

22 My lawn treatment guy told me not to mow the grass until November. An unusual no rain year here in No Ill and the grass had gone dormant. He suggested to mow about 4 inches and water about a half inch a week now that the cooler weather has arrived and the grass can ddo some growing and strengthen it's roots . In November, and the colder weather stops the grass, lower the deck to 2 inches to keep winter snow fungus from hitting the grass over winter.

If it's not one thing, it's another

Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2021 12:34 PM (vd8XM)

23 My free stock tank beds were a bust too Ronster. I planted yukon gold taters. Lots of greenery but they didn't make any taters. I don't know if I messed up the hilling (too late) or the yukons are fussy and you can't just plant ones you didn't eat up from the store.

The zucchini in tire stacks did fine.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply Irredeemable at September 25, 2021 12:34 PM (pxVvf)

24 jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 12:18 PM

Yes.

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 12:36 PM (0ghg2)

25 Of note on Okra, if you chop them up, toss them with some oil and salt/pepper and roast them in the oven, they also are not slimy.

And taste amazing, as 3/4 of my children will attest. 2 of them say it's their favorite food.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

I've only had okra in a "stewp" that someone else had made. They provided a thickening without using a roux.
It was very good

Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2021 12:36 PM (vd8XM)

26 18 Wife's high dollar raised tank bed was pretty much a bust. Got a few tomatoes, a few beets and a few turnips.
Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 12:31 PM (RRGka)

I had considered this, but noted deer no longer had to bend over at my neighbor's raised bed. It was sort of a salad bar.
What I need is a better fence or a new neighborhood.

So most of my puttering is more knitting and arranging crafting supplies. I have so much more time with the grandsons in school, that I have to prepare to use it better.

Posted by: Biden's state department! at September 25, 2021 12:36 PM (ONvIw)

27 Oops...and deep fried okra, which both my wife and I think is good

Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2021 12:37 PM (vd8XM)

28 Off Biden State sock

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:37 PM (ONvIw)

29 PaleRider, maybe it has something to do with CO crappy weather.

Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 12:38 PM (RRGka)

30 And I think the hummingbirds have left us.

Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2021 12:39 PM (vd8XM)

31 I think Kid2 is the only person I ever noticed with plants on the wedding registry. Ginkos, shrubs, and large grasses. They seem to be popular with guests as more were added as some were bought.

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:39 PM (ONvIw)

32 >>hummingbirds

Went nuts for the lantana this summer.

Posted by: ZOD at September 25, 2021 12:40 PM (bpVKN)

33 Went nuts for the lantana this summer.
Posted by: ZOD

We have some in pots on the deck
Fun to watch the hummers visit each one

Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2021 12:41 PM (vd8XM)

34 skywch at September 25, 2021 12:22 PM

Tomatoes in containers are a challenge.

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 12:42 PM (0ghg2)

35 Nap time!

Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2021 12:42 PM (vd8XM)

36 I have a monstera plant in the house and it's gotten all long and floppy. If I cut it back will new smaller branches come in or would that just kill it? I'm tired of the way it looks now.

Posted by: keena at September 25, 2021 12:43 PM (RiTnx)

37 That could be Ronster. I think the neighbor's raised beds did OK. She was better about keeping things watered than I was. I probably won't plant anything next year. If things work out I'm going to try to do more playing/riding instead, make memories before the commiecrats crater the country.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply Irredeemable at September 25, 2021 12:43 PM (pxVvf)

38 The problem with stings by wasps and hornets isn't so much the sting itself (unless you're allergic to insect venom), as the fact that the stinger often is dirty, and can cause a serious subcutaneous infection. Two years ago, I was stung on my left hand by a yellowjacket from a nest in my compost pile. It turned nasty, and I needed some weapons-grade antibiotics to clear it up. Of course, if you're attacked by a swarm, that's a whole different story!

Posted by: Nemo at September 25, 2021 12:43 PM (S6ArX)

39 Usually store bought veggies have been treated with something so not likely to produce or so I have read. And okra is wonderful. I remember when we had a large garden in GA back in the dark ages, the okra flowers were so pretty to this country kid. The tiny ones my mom would boil and talk about slime. Didn't bother us a bit. Medium size got the fried routine. Better than popcorn. Large ones went to the pigs.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at September 25, 2021 12:44 PM (Sf/jM)

40 > Tomatoes in containers are a challenge.

I was the classic case of "fools rush in"

but I wanted containers because not enough sun in my yard for a garden in one spot. Next year I'm going to try Romas.

Posted by: skywch at September 25, 2021 12:46 PM (QVgqY)

41 It turned nasty, and I needed some weapons-grade antibiotics to clear it up. Of course, if you're attacked by a swarm, that's a whole different story!
Posted by: Nemo at September 25, 2021 12:43 PM (S6ArX)

Yes. I got a bad cellulitis in my arm after yellow jacket stings. I went out after dark and revenged myself.

Posted by: CN at September 25, 2021 12:47 PM (ONvIw)

42 39: I've planted organic red taters before and they did OK, so I figured if they get eyes they'll grow, and these organic yukons had great plenty of eyes, and they grew pretty green tater plants, but they didn't make any taters. Taters are so cheap, even the yummy yukon golds, that it was foolish to spend so much time watering them and all but I had em sitting there, too many eyes to be good eating and wanted to experiment with the stock tanks. I think the tanks worked fine for not drying out so quickly as our sandy soil does just planting something in the ground so I have that info now.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply Irredeemable at September 25, 2021 12:50 PM (pxVvf)

43 Talking about raised beds, my neighbor put in a pool and I have be given some of the dirt. Not topsoil. sand and clay. I am planning to bring it over, one Gorilla cart at a time and build a raised bed. Add a lot of mulch, etc and rototill it. Put in concrete blocks to contain it.

I tried the tomatoes in a really big pot. Indeterminate was a mistake. Better luck next year?

Posted by: The Swedish Chef at September 25, 2021 12:50 PM (xopIz)

44 Off muppet sock.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 25, 2021 12:51 PM (xopIz)

45 keena at September 25, 2021 12:43 PM

Go ahead and cut it back. Above leaf nodes. If it has aerial roots that look funny, you can cut those back, too.

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 12:52 PM (0ghg2)

46 Swedish Chef, mine were indeterminate too, but I used cages and tied the vines up. I'm thinking now determinate would be better in pots. But I didn't like the idea of getting the fruit all at one time.

Posted by: skywch at September 25, 2021 12:54 PM (QVgqY)

47 Wife planted some tomatoes in pots. Cherry and something else. They did OK. Not great.

Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 12:57 PM (RRGka)

48 I like those okra flower photos a lot. Very crepey.

Posted by: m at September 25, 2021 12:59 PM (fVJPF)

49 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 25, 2021 01:00 PM (arJlL)

50 The other thing you can do with okra is make the Indian curried (and spicy to taste) dish called Sada Bindhi, which is absolutely delicious. Over the millennia, India's huge population of vegetarians has developed a commendable library of vegetarian dishes.

Posted by: grayishpanther at September 25, 2021 01:02 PM (4gr6V)

51 Wife bought some pickled okra. Not bad. No slime.

Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 01:02 PM (RRGka)

52 Grilled okra is pretty good. I learned not to let the slime of boiled okra bother me. When the okra harvest begins, you eat a LOT of okra, believe me!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #maskless (Mzdiz) at September 25, 2021 01:04 PM (Mzdiz)

53 Thanks, KT. Heading in there with scissors now!

Posted by: keena at September 25, 2021 01:07 PM (RiTnx)

54 37 before the commiecrats crater the country
Posted by: PaleRider is simply Irredeemable at September 25, 2021 12:43 PM (pxVvf)

Sad!

Posted by: m at September 25, 2021 01:09 PM (fVJPF)

55 I have grilled a few of the okra, tossed in oil with salt and pepper. They are good, if they are too big you get a little slime so smaller is better. I read somewhere that one gardener said they liked to eat them right in the garden, don't do that. That guy was a moron, or really into slim, it was like the slim kept expanding in my mouth, I had to spit it out.

Posted by: Weekreekfarmgirl at September 25, 2021 01:10 PM (pedVB)

56 I would like to try the pickled okra but I am only getting a few at a time, hardly seems worth the effort to pickle 3, but maybe I should give it a go just to see.

Posted by: Weekreekfarmgirl at September 25, 2021 01:13 PM (pedVB)

57 I'm hoping okra grows better for me in AR than it did in CO.

Posted by: Emmie at September 25, 2021 01:14 PM (6RgRK)

58 Wife planted some nasturtiums in the garden tower. They are doing great. Garden Tower, another waste when it comes to cost/benefit.

Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 01:18 PM (RRGka)

59 Only yard work I've done lately is some mowing and weeding.
I did root out some burdock taht is obnoxious. I had to use a shovel but a backhoe would've been better.
A friend says they're edible so I'm saving them for her to try.
No way I'm eating that.
Murder hornets. Yes, they're big and scary. So what?
It's a distraction to frighten people from thinking about our loss of liberty. It gives some people the impression that the government is protecting you.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at September 25, 2021 01:18 PM (FtJ1S)

60 nice crisp detail in that first flower pic. --
Seasons are changing ... had 40 degrees a couple mornings ago. 75 now, but four more days around 90 coming, which is at record high territory here.

They are picking corn around here now, soybeans still have some green in them. Chickens are getting thrown a lot of tomatoes .. still more coming.

cheers to the growers.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 25, 2021 01:20 PM (Cus5s)

61 My husband and I just dug up a row of potatoes, and I am happy to say that this might be the best year we have ever had for potatoes! The Purple Vikings are simply HUGE, some as big as my hand. We only grew 2 varieties this year - Purple Viking and German Butterball, and both have produced exceptionally big tubers. Some morning I go outside and find a big potato lying half uncovered in the soil - it's as if they're trying to leap out of the ground. Best year ever.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at September 25, 2021 01:29 PM (PhwY1)

62 This week husband told me about this. We both said, this is a natural for the Horde, but gardening thread or gun thread?

Why the dilemma? Some guy has invented shotgun shells loaded with seeds. I tried to check it out and am still a bit skeptical, but CNET says it's legit, FWIW.

https://tinyurl.com/mxjp55vk

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 25, 2021 01:33 PM (fTtFy)

63 Back in the olden days, CO used to grow lots of potatoes. Then the blight hit. Put and end to that.

Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 01:33 PM (RRGka)

64 Okra blossoms are so pretty!

Okra isn't slimy when it is pickled. To keep it super crunchy, add citric acid.

I don't mind the okra slime (yummm.. boiled okra), but it is an issue for a lot of people.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at September 25, 2021 01:37 PM (OQcPl)

65 keena at September 25, 2021 01:07 PM

You might also try pressing a fingernail or knife blade through the outer layer of the stem just above any extra nodes that look like they might grow extra leaves. Bumpy nodes may be for aerial roots.

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 01:38 PM (0ghg2)

66 G. Gnome will not comply at September 25, 2021 01:37 PM

Okra slime is for soup.

If I want boiled okra, I boil it tomatoes and onions. Not slimy.

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 01:42 PM (0ghg2)

67
Swarms of hummingbirds visiting our little garden this week. We have a variety of flowering plants and bushes, a running fountain and a couple of sugar water feeders.

Given how many there are and how suddenly they appeared, I'm thinking we have a migratory flock passing through town fueling up for the trip south.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2021 01:44 PM (/U27+)

68 Back in the olden days, CO used to grow lots of potatoes. Then the blight hit. Put and end to that.
Posted by: Ronster at September 25, 2021 01:33 PM (RRGka)

There's a Thomas Meagher joke here somewhere, but danged if I can put a finger on it.

*turns on Muldoon signal*

Posted by: Senator Pughorn Leghorn at September 25, 2021 01:47 PM (x8Wzq)

69 Bitter gourd

The only way I've had them was stir-fried and then dumped Tabasco on them. Still is an acquired taste.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 25, 2021 01:51 PM (1t5dY)

70
On the road now heading to the Sacramento Air Show. The Thunderbirds are performing late this afternoon, along with the F35. Should be fun.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 25, 2021 01:54 PM (TDal4)

71 @ WeeKreek Farm Girl ... Cher, you don't got to do nuttin' more den heat up dem cast-iron skillset and fry dem okra 'til dey be dry - da's how Cajons 'de-slime' dem okra fo' dem gombo - or to made dem some o' dat breaded okra - and den dere's dat okra an' tomato, okra wit' dem oignon, okra et saucisse etouffe an' all kinda stuff what can be made wit' dem okra. Don' you be worryin' you head about 'grilling' okra - cher, dat be a waist of thyme.

Posted by: Dr_No at September 25, 2021 01:54 PM (mu5GU)

72 KT,

Sent you some pics of the cactus, fruit, and blossoms.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 01:56 PM (ynpvh)

73 IllTemperedCur I'm jealous

Posted by: Skip at September 25, 2021 01:57 PM (2JoB8)

74 69 Bitter gourd

The only way I've had them was stir-fried and then dumped Tabasco on them. Still is an acquired taste.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 25, 2021 01:51 PM (1t5dY)

Related to Fuqua (Chinese Bitter Melon). The Filpinos make a dish called Ampalaya with it (very tasty). I make bitter melon with eggs and soy sauce.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

75 64 Okra blossoms are so pretty!

Okra isn't slimy when it is pickled. To keep it super crunchy, add citric acid.

I don't mind the okra slime (yummm.. boiled okra), but it is an issue for a lot of people.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at September 25, 2021 01:37 PM (OQcPl)

I LOVE breaded,deep fried okra.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 01:58 PM (ynpvh)

76 Okra flowers are beautiful! I considered planting them even though I'm not a fan of okra. I do love pickled beets and with eggs added I am back in my Polish grandmother's kitchen! I'm pulling tomato plants out today and will replant seeds for dino kale, spinach and lettuce. I hope its not too late.

Posted by: hogmartinsmom at September 25, 2021 02:03 PM (S1cYH)

77 Cracker Barrel has okra but they don't fry them crisp enough. I eat them anyway. Also Church's Chicken. Much better.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at September 25, 2021 02:04 PM (Sf/jM)

78 77 Cracker Barrel has okra but they don't fry them crisp enough. I eat them anyway. Also Church's Chicken. Much better.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at September 25, 2021 02:04 PM (Sf/jM)

Used to get them at Church's Chicken when I was a teen. Then they stopped selling it there.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 02:06 PM (ynpvh)

79 Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2021 01:44 PM

Sounds like an event!

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 02:07 PM (0ghg2)

80 Thanks Dr_No! I will have to try that.

Posted by: Weekreekfarmgirl at September 25, 2021 02:10 PM (pedVB)

81 Found out the Crab Hut has okra. Pricy but not too bad.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2021 02:12 PM (ynpvh)

82 Dr_No at September 25, 2021 01:54 PM

Some great instructions there!

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 02:19 PM (0ghg2)

83 71 @ WeeKreek Farm Girl ... Cher, you don't got to do nuttin' more den heat up dem cast-iron skillset and fry dem okra 'til dey be dry - da's how Cajons 'de-slime' dem okra fo' dem gombo - or to made dem some o' dat breaded okra - and den dere's dat okra an' tomato, okra wit' dem oignon, okra et saucisse etouffe an' all kinda stuff what can be made wit' dem okra. Don' you be worryin' you head about 'grilling' okra - cher, dat be a waist of thyme.
Posted by: Dr_No at September 25, 2021 01:54 PM (mu5GU)

Tons of fun!

Posted by: m at September 25, 2021 02:32 PM (fVJPF)

84 Pets are up.

Posted by: m at September 25, 2021 02:34 PM (fVJPF)

85 Mais, me, I would like to t'ank all de respondex what say dem nice t'ings to me. Memember, when you fry dem okra, you jes might want to put a li'l bit o' dem bacon drippin' in you cast-iron skillset ... jes' to make dat slippin' 'n slidin' a bit mo' easier on dem okra. It also help it not git all stuck-ish on dem iron (depending on how 'saison'-ed you cast iron be. Picked okra is God's perfect food. Stewed okra wit' dem tomat be great also too. Okra is a MUST if you be makin' crab 'n shrimp gombo. I can't t'ink of no way okra ain't good, an' me, you know I done tried to did dat yeah, you - but okra be's good no matter how you wanna fix it up. Breaded ... ? Oh yeah. Lak we say: Git you some o' dat.

Posted by: Dr_No at September 25, 2021 04:56 PM (mu5GU)

86 Why the dilemma? Some guy has invented shotgun shells loaded with seeds. I tried to check it out and am still a bit skeptical, but CNET says it's legit, FWIW.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 25, 2021 01:33 PM (fTtFy)

That was an old shaggy dog story about planting on baked hardscrabble clay and hardpan.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2021 05:21 PM (KbLYZ)

87 Bread the okra with a cornmeal and flour 50/50 mix.
Slice into 3/8 inch sections, toss into a paper bag with breading mix with salt and pepper, shake, and fry in a skillet with a little oil/grease of your choice.
Not slimey.

Posted by: waepnedmann at September 25, 2021 07:36 PM (IOAos)

88 Wow. Lots o' info on okra today.

Anybody putting in a fall garden? Now's the time in some parts of okra country.

Posted by: KT at September 25, 2021 07:51 PM (0ghg2)

89 From Boise area: Had a windstorm last Sat. aft. while at Project Appleseed event - caused lots of sticks to fall from trees in my yard, so lots of cleanup. Then husband and I did some tree pruning - more sticks to pick up... but this also produced firewood for the future.

Found out irrigation will remain on till mid-Oct., huzzah!

Still picking neighbors' zucchini, then shredding, blanching, and freezing it. Still picking green beans, red raspberries, Romas, slicers, and gold cherry tomatoes. Spent part of today blanching and skinning Romas, and neighbors' gift of San Marzanos - still need to press them and cook down sauce for canning.

Tested apples - not quite sweet enough yet - looks like a good crop. Plan to make applesauce, cider, and hard cider.

Still some Johnny Jump-Ups, and lots of sweet alyssum blooming - mums looking good (a small-flowered yellow type).

Posted by: Pat* at September 25, 2021 11:11 PM (2pX/F)

90 84 Pets are up.

Posted by: m at September 25, 2021 02:34 PM (fVJPF)

Fake news.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at October 02, 2021 12:37 PM (nLrWw)

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