DEAR GARDENERS: SEPTEMBER'S HARVESTING
SEPTEMBER 2011
Dear Gardeners:
Since it's harvesting time and too many vegetable and fruit gardeners will be busy canning, making preserves and freezes their summer's plently it's no surprise that many of them will also be doing some wonderful pickling. There's always the common pickling of cucumbers, but little is or rarely mentioned about pickling orka! For some are just not okra vegetable lovers. Some disgust at the slime, and others..love... love the flavor. Okra is an acquired taste that so many haven't decided to like. However, okra gives great flavor to soups, and is powerful ingredient to freshly made salads. So okra's pickling is too a great tasting treat!
I recently saw an annoucement in a local community that will be offering an okra pickling class. The main objective is to get those long green seeded stems in the pickling jar! I did a recent search over the internet regarding easy steps which I found were quite simple to do if you dare to give it a try! No it's not difficult at all in facts steps to follow were quite easy and safe.
Simply steps included:
Washing & cutting your okra
Sanitize your jars and lids
Cooking it
Storing and waiting
I found this website so helpful and forever I'm thankful the owner was so freely to share these easy steps for us!
http://www.pickyourown.org/okra_pickled.ht...
I surely hope you're brave enough to give it a try. "Pickling Okra! who'd would of thought!"
FLOWERS AND VEGGIE GARDENERS:
Otherwise, for flower or veggie gardeners now is a great time to clean out beds of the leftover summer blooms and make way for fall's follies to jump right in. Your fall group should be up already and possibly depending where you live getting ready to bloom. Working in your gardens is fun this time of year. If you haven't run out of energy you can go for hours and hours. Applying a new coat of mulch?....It's an excellent time to work with this and even an extra coat of top soil. There's a few annual fall flowers you can plant for fall,--go visit your garden escapes and find them. Well now, I guess it's escapes for an conclusion. I'll give tips next time on those brown leaves on your houseplants... My last words are coming up! I'll write soon.
Toodles!
"So tell me..how does your gardens grow?
I'd surely love to know....
Mine grows with lots of love."
All my love,
MIISRAEL
Dear Gardeners:
Since it's harvesting time and too many vegetable and fruit gardeners will be busy canning, making preserves and freezes their summer's plently it's no surprise that many of them will also be doing some wonderful pickling. There's always the common pickling of cucumbers, but little is or rarely mentioned about pickling orka! For some are just not okra vegetable lovers. Some disgust at the slime, and others..love... love the flavor. Okra is an acquired taste that so many haven't decided to like. However, okra gives great flavor to soups, and is powerful ingredient to freshly made salads. So okra's pickling is too a great tasting treat!
I recently saw an annoucement in a local community that will be offering an okra pickling class. The main objective is to get those long green seeded stems in the pickling jar! I did a recent search over the internet regarding easy steps which I found were quite simple to do if you dare to give it a try! No it's not difficult at all in facts steps to follow were quite easy and safe.
Simply steps included:
Washing & cutting your okra
Sanitize your jars and lids
Cooking it
Storing and waiting
I found this website so helpful and forever I'm thankful the owner was so freely to share these easy steps for us!
http://www.pickyourown.org/okra_pickled.ht...
I surely hope you're brave enough to give it a try. "Pickling Okra! who'd would of thought!"
FLOWERS AND VEGGIE GARDENERS:
Otherwise, for flower or veggie gardeners now is a great time to clean out beds of the leftover summer blooms and make way for fall's follies to jump right in. Your fall group should be up already and possibly depending where you live getting ready to bloom. Working in your gardens is fun this time of year. If you haven't run out of energy you can go for hours and hours. Applying a new coat of mulch?....It's an excellent time to work with this and even an extra coat of top soil. There's a few annual fall flowers you can plant for fall,--go visit your garden escapes and find them. Well now, I guess it's escapes for an conclusion. I'll give tips next time on those brown leaves on your houseplants... My last words are coming up! I'll write soon.
Toodles!
"So tell me..how does your gardens grow?
I'd surely love to know....
Mine grows with lots of love."
All my love,
MIISRAEL
I actually have okra growing in my small garden. Did you know many of the female Africans would hide okra seeds in their braids. They also used okra effectively as a setting lotion, final hair rinse, natural hair gel, bounce & volumizer and to get rid of head lice.
In Africa, okra was called ‘ngumbo.’ And what is the name of that dish we put okra in today? GUMBO! In the United States, ‘ngumbo’ became ‘gumbo.’ Okra was known as ngumbo in its native Angola and hence gumbo in the American colonies. The slaves made a stew from it, modeled after a dish prepared by Native Americans, which they also called ‘gumbo.’
Okra seed was also used as a substitute for coffee beans during World War II.