1. Summer Squash 2. Bush Beans 3. Basil 4. Cucumber 5. Okra 6. Sweet Corn 7. Zinnias & Cosmos

@beatrizcrossman3351

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this list

Yes! Okra is one of my favorite! I still plant the same okra seeds my great grandmother planted. Every year I let a few go to seed so I can have next year's crop.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

That's very cool!

@tesswagner895

Жыл бұрын

​@NextLevelGardening Love, love love fried okra!!!! ❤❤❤ You made me hungry watching you cook it.😋 Dip in barbecue sauce. That's really good!❤

@JL-hw5hu

Жыл бұрын

​@@tesswagner895Ranch dressing is everything!!

@tesswagner895

Жыл бұрын

@@JL-hw5hu OH Yeah! That one's really good too!😄

An air fryer is a game changer for okra! Use less fat but get the same results in less time!

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

Ohhh. Never though of that!

Northeast states mostly haven’t even heard of okra (I’m a Connecticutan originally). Live in the south now. They don’t know what they’re missing. 😢😂

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

I know!

@joanies6778

Жыл бұрын

I was raised in the south and my mom made okra and tomatoes, which I liked. When I went out on my own, I discovered fried okra. 😮😋 Then one of my sisters discovered hot pickled okra at the store. Yum! 😋😋 Last year was my first successful attempt at growing okra, so I canned hot pickled okra... omg, it is soooo good!

@nikkistump3480

Жыл бұрын

What! I didn’t know that! Wow

@irili100

Жыл бұрын

I really like okra, I grow it every year, eat it fresh straight from the bush and of course also cook it with different vegetables, or fry it with an egg for breakfast.❤

@mlee7037

Жыл бұрын

Love pickled and fermented okra. My okra plants don’t produce enough to do anything with though. I end up eating them raw before I can even get back in the house.

I'm from Texas. Been loving okra all of my life. I grow it.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

It's so good

I never had okra before I moved south, but I LOVE IT fried and in soups.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

This Cali girl married a Texan and found herself growing okra! It’s so beautiful and the boys picked the young fruit and ate them off “of the vine”! If you let them go to seedC they make for stunning decor in a bowl!

I am inspired! Going to succession plant beans, carrots, and beets tomorrow morning!

So glad you are talking in frost dates rather than zones 💞

Love, love, love okra!❤❤

🤣Oh my gosh,...Your expression when you pulled the calendar down from your face had me in laughing so hard because that's probably the expression I had this weekend when I heard the word FROST! I direct sowed 2 types of watermelon, 4 types of squash/zucchini, 5 types of beans, 2 types of okra, 2 types of corn in 93 degrees right before the rain came and I wasn't thinking about frost at all. Love ❤your videos and your sense of humor! I can't go wrong as long as you and the Farmer's Almanac planting calendar give me guidance!

Always time for planting chives, young leek, young garlic, young onion, green onion, shallot, scallion, radish, (small cabbage) radicchio, small fennel, finnochio, ... and parsley, cilantro/coriander/Chinese parsley, and chervil. On another YT site making pesto or pasta/pizza sauce, I mentioned the consideration of chervil and cilantro (vs conventional parsley) in a sauce. Parsley has a mild, grassy, and bright flavor. Cilantro/coriander/Chinese parsley has a much stronger, citrusy (and sometimes soapy) flavor. Chervil (a very neglected herb) is a French variety of Italian parsley having a sweet, delicate flavor of licorice/anise/fennel combined with a peppery taste.

I've planted beans and squash mid July and got more than we could eat 😊😊😊

I love okra! This is my first year planting it, though. I live in WA state and it's not very popular here in the NW. My grandmother was from OK and she always made it. I like it fried the best, but I do not use batter or breading. I like it best with just salt, pepper and fresh garlic. Key is to cook for a long time until it becomes blackened and crispy (not burned, just very dark). This evaporates the "slime". I can't wait to harvest!

North Texas - I can grow Zinnias as long as I water every other day. Every other vegetable stunts until about 3 weeks before the first frost. Then they all burst into growth, start to produce, and get destroyed before being ready to harvest. Oh, and the last two years my squash drop off - no matter where in the yard, what soil, or if I spray the magic "don't drop off" spray on them... I think next year I'm going to tent the back yard and go hydroponic...

No to okra. Live in Central Indiana but grew up summer farming with grand parents in the south. Thank you for this video! I was just thinking about what to plant next.

Thanks for sharing Brian.

All the grand parents were from the south and we are okra regularly! I just love it. The one way I've never eaten it, though, was fried!

@janicenash8382

Жыл бұрын

You should try fried okra, it is delicious 🙏♥️🤪

I LOVE LOVE LOVE okra

@roottrackerzbyyaira

Жыл бұрын

ME 2!!!! I got a volunteer growing since April in Zone 10b between my tomatoes and eggplant 😂 I still planted a Motherland variety a few days ago after soaking. Try Red Okra when you can 🍃

Great job! Short and sweet, very informative, with pics for each topic.

Plan on planting okra this week❣️ But would love and enjoy your terms for doing so. Ty! I’m from Texas but living in So. Oregon. You’re the best of the best❣️

love it, Made fried okra this week

I love okra! I'm growing some Okinawan okra now (in Sacramento), and harvested my first handful the other day. Good to know that I can plant more!

Love Love Love Okra!! Pickled is our favorite

Never had it BUT I love the blooms!

Zone 9b.. growing okra and bush beans in 110 degrees. They love it! Shade in the afternoon though.

I'm from the north originally and bought into the old "okra is slimy" bit. Moved to NC and love okra cooked with tomatoes and onions. Yum! AND I bought my son an okra santa claus ornament when we moved here.

Love okra! Grew up in Texas and live here now. My mom grew it and we loved it fried. 😅❤

I’m using your book to learn how to companion plant. I’m struggling to grow my cucumbers even with dill nearby, they are flowering for fruit but are tiny plants so I look forward to your video on growing them. I’m a South Georgia lady and love our fried okra and okra and tomatoes mixed.

Thanks so much brother

Thank you, this is a great growing guide for us zone 3 gardeners. I think I can eke out 60 days- although it has been unseasonably cool even for here with a low of 39 on July 4. If it doesn't work out it’s a great list for next year. Okra sounds like a wonderful greenhouse candidate for this summer! My MIL has a recipe for fried okra I’d love to try.

I love Orka ! It’s especially good fried but also delicious roasted.

Thanks for the reminder to do my cucumber succession planting. Corn is going in next week. Can’t really do it sooner here until summer rains start. But we don’t get frost until December here 🙌

I love 2 beds that are not in place and have been asking my son to level it and put the soil in but no luck so far and it's so hot and humid, I don't really want to be outside either. I have to find a way to do it from inside the house 😉 ugh the humidity sucks! Great video Brian!🤗

I’m now living in Fort Myers Florida, where I don’t think we’ll have a frost date. Thanks for sharing. Happy planting! 🪴

I am another okra lover! As a son of two southerners it was around when I was growing up. I love it fried and I also make sure I grow enough to pickle a few pints every year. They are spicy and garlicky and really add a punch to Sunday Brunch Bloody Marys.

I Love Okra! I've grown it for several years. Last yr my tallest okra was 11' 8".

I love okra! And I did for fresh basil, and plant it all the time!!!

I am from Arkansas grew up there until moving to California. I love Okra especially fried!!!

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

That's where my grandparents are from!

You are so cute with your funny ad-libs!! 😂 ❤️❤️ your channel & family! LOVE LOVE LOVE OKRA!!

We love okra!! I even pickle some to have it all winter.

We love Okra ! We live in SW Michigan, so we have to grow it ourselves. We rarely see it for sale anywhere. We fry it with onion and a green tomato.

OH YES, Love, love love orka. And Thanks for info

I'm a northerner. I've never even seen okra! Hubby is from an even further north location. His idea of a meal is meat & potatoes. He also only eats certain veggies, so I only grow what we both will eat. I need to grow more stuff that I will eat myself

Thank you Brian. Guess I'll start some cucumber and bean's. Happy growing all.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Thanks !!! 🥰

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Great video thank you for sharing thank you for the information..October 30 through May 19 is my #

Videos are getting better and better. This was awesome! Lots of tips!

@NextLevelGardening

11 ай бұрын

Thanks

Love, love love okra!!!!

Love it and it's really good for you. If you don't like it stewed because of the slime, don't hesitate to try fried (much better than French fries) and the pickled is great, often served on the salad bars. Try eating it raw that's good too. Last summer I picked my neighbors okra daily for him so it doesn't get tough and stop producing while he traveled out of town. I got to keep all I picked. 😅

Thanks 😊

This is my first year to grow okra! And tonight was the first time I prepared fried okra. I am in love. I only have 4 plants and it has taken a long to to collect enough. This is also my first garden in 30 years, so maybe better results next year.

EyE love okra!! Thank You!!

Love love love me some okra❤❤❤Mine grows to November here in Zone 8b❤❤❤

Grew up in TX, now in NC & 💘 okra!

Love okra. I need to cook my small harvest

Im borna and raised so cal (9b/10) recently moved to central arkansas (7b/8) and Im growing okra for the first time.. . 3 different varieties. Should be interesting!

I love fried okra too. Barbara.

Everything in our garden is about 2 months behind normal. It's been a different kind of season. We had tons of snow and even when the snow melted it continued to be cold until recently. Up til late June we still had 30 degree nights. So, everything is very behind. Usually our zucchinis are harvesting in May/June. This year we are just starting to get flowers!

Love okra! We eat it like popcorn in the evenings

Love okra. Mom was from SC

love okra love it

Great video. Thanks Brian!

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

I'm sooo glad to find out from you that it's not too late for okra which didn't grow for me last year.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

😁👍🏼

@lisaadams7914

Жыл бұрын

Soak your seeds for 8-12 hours. Do not plant the floaters.

@josiebridges3583

Жыл бұрын

@@lisaadams7914 Thank you, Lisa.

I love okra. My flowers are falling off currently, maybe because it's been too hot in Texas.

Thanks for the tips. Just wish my back would cooperate with me and my gardening addiction.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

I hear you!

I love okra. I think I’m going to plant some.

Yes on Okra!!!

Im in zone 5 Ontario Canada so different senario but I'm planting my fall crops today. I've learned to sow seeds about three weeks before when recommended to account for germination and ripening. Nothing worse than anxiously waiting for something to ripen too close to your frost date. They START ripening but there will be more on the vines you want to ripen as well

@sevendeadlychins

Жыл бұрын

That's great advice!

@joanies6778

Жыл бұрын

Especially plants like okra. They don't all come up at once. Last year I was covering them at night just to let them finish up.

@ugosmith7529

Жыл бұрын

Me (in Qc), looking nervously at my 2 watermelon plants 😂

@DebRoo11

Жыл бұрын

@@ugosmith7529 me and my melons too! Grow little buddies grow 😂

Love okra. Very informative

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Another wonderful informative video Brian….great idea to teach newbies how to determine if it’s ok to plant something based on when their first frost date is……and yes I love okra!!!!!!🥰❤️👵🏻And I just planted Zucchini and will be planting Bush Beans too….don’t have any Okra seeds….and tks I will let my Basil flower……..

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I love okra..fried, pickled, in stews, and even in stir fry. When you grow up in the south okra goes in almost everything even in black eyed peas. And of course we can't leave out cajun food from Louisiana,

LOVE ORKRA!

Thank you so much for all your wisdom. I am a new gardener basically. However, I grew up with grandparents who are farmers but I basically picked plant picked during harvest and water that was my job so now I’m really doing it all. And thankfully for you, I’m learning what I can plant late and early and what keeps hornworms away. Are there any other bugs that we need to keep away and how could we do it?

Yes, I love okra!

I love okra and grow it every summer.

Great theme tpday

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I like this new style of video. Well done.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Okra yumyumyum. Mine is 2 feet tall, will grow til frost.

Thanks Brian. Love your videos. ❤ Unfortunately the link to the zones doesn't cover Australia.

I have a count down board for the first frost date telling me how many days I have left - I plan everything out but every week I put something new and unplanned

@sariebou

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I’m going to do this too

Yes, I LOVE okra! I grew up eating okra/tomato stew. Later I discovered fried okra and it's the bomb. 😋 However, what I REALLY enjoy is hot pickled okra... it's to live for! Last year I fried okra that I grew several times, but most of it got canned into hot pickles. You can find them in the grocery pickle aisle, or make your own, like me. So crispy with a little heat... yummo! 😋😋😋

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

I'll have to try that!

Aside from not being crazy about okra, we are too close to the coast here in the inner Bay Area (CA) to get that needed heat to grow it.

Yessss

OMG 😆!! I love Okra. I eat okra and tomatoes with a little corn.

Love Okra. We're Greek. Sauté' onions, tomatoes, garlic in olive oil, add Okra and yum!

I use my aquarium water to put on my vegetable plants. Seems to be working well for me. Freshwater aquarium water only.

Yes I love okra.

Love okra!

I love okra ❤

I got some growing right love okra

We love love love okra

I’m from northeast Philly originally. My fathers famous from the South. I have the best of both🙌🏻 knowing what woder ice is aka water ice a and a philly cheesesteak and knowing okra and all the other yummy southern things. If you ask for sweet tea in PA or NJ they will try to give you raspberry tea😂🤦‍♀️ a quick fix is ordering non sweet tea and simple syrup from the bar😂😂😂

I love okra. I have 16 plants in the ground now.

I love okra!

In our Deep South 9b (first frost 12/21) we can't plant bush beans or things like cosmos now because it's too hot to meet their germination temperature. Asian long beans will work but you need a lot of vertical or other trellis space.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

Good tip

Unfortunately for me there will be no summer Garden since I am dealing with throat cancel. I tried zucchini and cucumbers but they burnt up in the high Arizona desert heat. Did get some zucchinis only one or two cucumbers. Hopefully I will be able to start my winter garden this year. I don't like okra but I would like to try that fried okra recipe if you would like to give it to us. Does the frying keep it from getting slimy? Love all your videos thank you for all the work you put in

No to Okra, sadly, as I am in West Central Florida. Growing Cucumbers, Zucchini and will be getting Kentucky Wonder Climbing Beans in soon. Love cosmos, but so do the rabbits and squirrels for food. Add marigolds to that list. I have nasturtium under shade, basil, cilantro, sage, thyme, oregano, parsley, dill, rosemary, lemon balm, and mint in partial shade. I have snapdragons, sunflowers, lavender, zinnias, daylillies, iris, and several tropical hibiscus right now.

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I LOVE okra. Didn't have much luck growing it in Cali but got a bunch last year here in NC. It's delicious as a garden snack. Those that made it into the house were dehydrated to make yummy snacks all year. I've never tried to fry it. Thank you for talking frost dates instead of zones. The best thing I've heard (and it might have been from you) is that zones apply more to perennials while veggie gardens are usually filled with annuals that are planted by frost dates. I think my hubby would kill me if I planted more cukes. We're making our 4th batch of pickles right now and will be doing another tomorrow. There's only the 2 of us but we give many jars away. My zucchini never sprouted but you've encouraged me to go plant some more seeds.

@NextLevelGardening

Жыл бұрын

That was probably me Debbie! It just makes sense. I bet you can grow okra well there

@joanies6778

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried hot pickled okra? I love it fried, but most of mine get pickled. Also, I make relish with my cucumbers in addition to all sorts of pickles. I probably go through more relish in a year than pickles.

@debbiep7419

Жыл бұрын

@@joanies6778 Yes, tomorrow's batch will be relish. It is SO much better than the store stuff! Hubby's doing spicy garlic dills now; already made regular dills, garlic dills and 2 batches of bread & butter (everyone's fave)