Posted on 10/25/2024 11:11:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Oct. 25 (UPI) -- An Alabama couple may have broken a Guinness World Record by growing an okra plant that reached a height of 16 feet, 10 inches.
Mobile residents Terry and Candace Stevens said this was their first year planting okra in their garden, and they were shocked to see one of their plants reach for the sky.
"Actually, this is our first year planting," Terry Stevens told WALA-TV. "I think we started in March, and we started in seeds from my shed, and we transferred them out here, and they've just been growing ever since."
A crew from Byrd Surveying visited the couple's home to take an official measurement to submit to Guinness World Records. The plant was measured at 16 feet, 10 inches tall.
The record is currently held by New Orleans man Jack Reno Sweeney, whose okra plant was measured at 16 feet and 4 inches tall in 2022.
““which is the only civilized way to cook it BTW.”
Or pickle them! ;-)”
Pickled is good, fried is good.
My favorite however is raw just cut off the plant, rinse it off unless just after rain maybe a little salt, smaller younger pods the best.
Can’t stand boiled.
Yeah, raw is good, too. ;-)
I had some reach about ten feet last year. I had so much okra last year that I didn’t eat any this year.
“That’s a lot of fried okra.....which is the only civilized way to cook it BTW.”
Fried okra is great. Okra gumbo is delicious.
I generally will eat anything that doesn't eat me first, but this Yankee calls a hard pass on Okra. My BIL, on the other hand, had me start 62 plants for him one season. He LOVES the stuff - went to HS in Alabama, so that's probably a big part of it.
It IS a gorgeous plant, for sure. I've used it in designing 'Edible Garden' teaching gardens before.
Mom! He must be using your Dr. Jim’s, ‘Soup for the Soil!’
Did he use Miracle Gro, I wonder...
Stewed or fried, which is your favorite way?
I like both!.......
Okra is one of those things that, thousands of years ago, you picture some starving fool looking at and saying “I’m gonna eat that....”
First dinner I ate with my Southern wife’s family, not long after relocating from the ‘Burgh, they had fried okra. Her sister asked me if I ate it - I said never heard of it. She wanted to know what in the world we eat up there. I like it now, but only when my wife fixes it. Hers is the best.
I like both, too.
It’s very easy to grow, just requires a good amount of water (it’s a swamp plant), and constant picking of the pods so they will keep making. If the pods get too big they can’t be eaten, too tough. Test with your fingernail, if it makes a dent it’s okay, other wise just cut it off and save for seed............
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