Hope to see you there!

Sorry to hear you all have been ill, will pray for your continued healing.

Just love looking at your garden produce, I so miss my father and my gardening in both CA and TX. My father passed in 2003 and we moved to Anchorge, AK, I live on the 4th floor of an apartment building. Miss being on the ground with a garden always! Hubby has gotten me a small indoor greenhouse, growing herbs, and ivy, need more practice at growing in a greenhouse tho, only things I can harvest are chives, parsley, and colander so far, growing tomatoe plants and pepper plants for salsa, hopefully they will produce, if not will try again.
We always grew okra. Love it any way you can prepare it. We always froze it to use later in the year.

To boil an eat :

rinse to clean medium to small size pods.
cook on boil unitl pods are very fork tender. Drain , salt n pepper, and melted butter and eat. Good with fried taters , red onion slices, corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes and fried chicken or a pot of pinto beans n ham.

fried okra

cut pods into 1/4-1/2 inch pieces , dip in milk or buttermilk , dip in cornmeal/flour mixture and fry until tender and golden. Good to eat with anything or dip in ranch dressing! yum

okra n tomatoes
cut into 1 inch pieces and cook with stewed tomatoes add zucchini if you like -yoummy with scalloped potatoes as side dishes etc

some people pickle okra also and eat as snacks, we jut never tryed it that way.

put in whole pods in gumbo ! good that way.

and we always added to our homemade beef n veggie soup every year , delicious.
Hope this helped!
Have a great weekend,
Nanareth in Anchorage, AK

I hope you’re all feeling better soon. It’s no fun being sick in the middle of the summer when you just want to be outside!

Your garden is doing awesome…wow, what a great bounty.

Blessings!

Blessings~
Laura