Well, I just spent the last 4 days making tomato sauce with my Amish Paste harvest! I grew 143 pounds of those "Maters and ended up with 21 quarts of sauce! Also, I didn't grow the same varieties as you, but I DID grow a Brandywine tomato this year that weighed in at 1 pound and 12 ounces. I was impressed with myself! HAHA
Lookong good..we are in central eastern Virginia..i plant clemson okra..they do well with hot summers..they grew over 5ft tall last year..produced good..i have been trying to get more drought resistent seeds..temps are bouncing..cool this week..next week 70 &80s..thankyou for videos
I’m waaaay behind in my OKREE planting, but I got some in a few days ago. I can hardly wait to harvest. First time growing them. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Boy, would I love to taste that sauce!
It was 100 and humid most of the week here in central OH, and my indeterminate tomatoes have been so sad. I’m glad I’d fed them last week as I think that helped them limp through. Today was 82 and breezy and you would not have recognized them as the same patch of tomatoes. At the end of today, they look amazing. OH gardeners like to brag about having a ripe tomato by the 4th of July. I love to see the gardens in different climates! I’m jealous of the spring mater sandwiches in the South.
Good job on those 'maters! Being Greek and Southern Italian on my father's side, I make plain tomato sauce with mine, because Greek tomato sauce is traditionally seasoned with oregano and cinnamon, and Southern Italian sauce is seasoned with basil. I never know what I'm going to crave, so I keep the sauce on the shelf plain and season as the craving hits.
I loved the tomato sauce story. How sweet the sharing and community, the relationship you have established with that family. Enjoy your sauce!!! (And thanks for the okra tip. I think the soil where my plants are now might be a little too rich, but next year I'll be ready 👍🏾)
Haven't even planted my okra yet. It is just one of those years. I usually grow my tomatoes to the top of the poles or canes and then let them fall back down by gravity when they reach the top. They do fine that way. They break but then they keep on keeping on. We just got our first ripe sungolds today, and now I am craving those big slicers real bad!
You're very correct and honorable to guard that family heirloom sauce recipe. My wife's recipe makes me roll my eyes, fall on the floor and kick my legs in the air. She's a very generous woman, generally speaking, but wouldn't disclose that recipe to a third party if you choked her.
Perfect timing, I just went out today and discovered a few pods on the okra, almost the same size as your plants. Removed the pods and flowers even though still on the small side , we have a lot of high heat to 100's later in the week here and no rain in sight. I just removed the pods to help the plant focus more on growth so it can reach further down with its roots to help with the heat. The weather here has knocked a lot of the gardeners around big time and the TH-cam garden channels from all over the state have just about written off growing any tomatoes to fruiting this year.
I do weird stuff with tomato sauce, like add Allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, curry powder, or whatever else I feel like. If I feel lazy I will add s squeeze of some Ranch, or BBQ sauce. I used to work in a Restaurant chain and found their Marinara sauce to be ordinary like many Spag sauces. There is no wrong as long as you like it.
Great stuff Travis! God bless you and the Family. I'm glad to see you use the Secret Sauce. Lol. I used it on a few specific plants and noticed a huge difference especially when I mixed it with the chicken soup.(from Dr Jimz.) Thank you for all the great videos sir!!!
Travis you got me on the Kellogg's as of now my friend but I think I got one coming that will take you down. 🤣🤣🤠🤠 . I don't know about you but, It's gotten so hot I tired of the garden this year already though.
I only heard about tomatoes dying in the heat, a few years ago. You can lower and lean your indeterminates to allow the tops to keep growing. Mine have always produced through the heat, and right up until the first frost. The plants might start looking rough, but the fruit is still good
That pool noodle is brilliant. I’m running out to grab one, I’ve been worried about the tomatoes that have breached the trellis in my garden. I’m not so sure that it will be “graceful” but I’m hopeful that the stems won’t break!
If you're lucky enough to get a sucker near the bottom of the tomato plants you can terminate the main stem at the top and just start all over with the sucker.
I’ve been doing that for a couple of weeks now. Will probably be wishful thinking. We have the HOT WEATHER for 3 more months. Even so it’s too early to start looking forward to next year.
Thank you very kindly for testing out my comment re heirloom tomatoes being heavy feeders. The soil most were developed in is so rich, supplementation is best if grown elsewhere. It may interest your northern viewers (I am in Canada) that the European-origin indeterminates like yours put on a very strong second flush in regions where the weather cools and regular rainfall rain resumes in late summer....producing until frost.
If you don't get to plant early it's ok. Okra is just like cotton the first of June is just right for Okra or cotton. when it come to tomato sauce the more you put in it the worse it will taste I have found out. I also found a way to make tomate sauce that so good that I drink it out of a glass, but it's great to put it anything that you love to eat.
I think the noodle trick will work as long as when they get longer you keep the suckers trimmed off to reduce the weight of the vine and you continually attach it with green growers tape tying the vine going down the pole, using your noodle as a cushion, so it doesn't directly sit on the pole! I am learning this myself, because once the weight of any tomatoes growing on that upper segment get heavy, the vine will start cracking and breaking at the bend!
We put insulation foam for pipe on top of our tomatoe cages (looks like a pool noodle but already has a cut on it)and the tomatoes bend over without creasing or breaking. My kellogs breakfast are not larged this year. Dr Wyches are going to out size them I think.
That pasta sauce soulds like how we make ours...takes hrs and hrs but is the best sauce. All ingredients except olive oil, salt, and pepper come from our garden. We dont give our recipe out either because we may add more garlic, herbs and spices depending on taste...so the recipe varies slightly from batch to batch but is always lip smackingly good.🙂
Well I really only have the small invincible variety, might end up with about 20+ lbs they all didn’t ripped at once, still have a few on my almost dead plants lol. But we froze bags of them as they ripened. My thoughts were to can after everything is ripe, I have seen where some people froze them and just thaw them out all at once to can ,we will give it a shot. Pretty genius with the noodle trick hopefully it works
That's the thing with tomatoes. You have to plant a decent amount to can a bunch at one time. But then you have way more than you need once you've done all the canning you want to do. lol
Last year, I grew Brandywine toms. Covered me up with heirloom slicing... But it Was nothing to have several 1.5 to 2# tomatoes. My neighbor wanted a contest and they grew beefsteak and I, the Brandywine... I decided to go with all hybrid toms (red snapper) for canning... But for a big tomato, my money is on Brandywine.
Did starts on my okra and let them get root bound. Put them in the ground with a little vegetable fertilizer and they were producing at 2 feet. Still haven't fertilized and little water-having to pick ever 2 days at 3 feet. Got to Love Florida heat.
I have not had good luck with getting tomatoes to grow back down the pole. They seem to break and are always trying to grow back up and then break. Hopefully the pool noodle helps. I now use the lower and lean method, but I have a longer mater season than you do. My okree (Ruiz seeds from LDF) has just sprouted, so I'm a ways off from picking. I'm excited to test out the theory that homegrown is better since I haven't been a fan of the mushy slime I've had at restaurants.
Wind storm came an flattened two corn patches one I raised up with a modified Florida weave the other is too big to do that do I have enuf time to replant. (7 b zone )
Those are some big 'maters. The vines should be to loop back down if the bend isn't too sharp. I'm focusing on making pasta sauce this year also and will probably only need to add a dozen diced tomatoes to what I already have. Here is a question for ya. Since you have a pretty long season, are you to grow a late summer/early fall crop of tomatoes? I know the daylight starts to get a bit short but maybe with the right timing, it would be possible.
I'll trade you for that dry weather here in Western Washington State it's in the upper 50s low 60s and raining almost every day which we do get a lot of rain but not in June July and August is usually much warmer and drier than this coldest wettest year I've ever seen here in 55 years I'm done with it.
I have a similar problem with my tomatoes. I try to encourage them to grow a little sideways and horizontal first. Then they will start to drape over the conduit and grow down. This way it's not such a hard turn over the pipe.
Also worth noting at the 9:25+ mark, he uses 12 oz per 5 gals. It should be 4 oz per gal. But I apply mine at half strength. It is quite BROWN and expensive - especially that 3-3-5 stuff. But... so far so good! Not criticizing. Just comparing notes.
I used to work there several years ago. We have a variety of fig called Violette de Bourdeaux that stays relatively dwarf. It's a beautiful tree with tasty figs: lazydogfarm.com/products/violette-de-bourdeaux-fig-tree
Should we still prune our okies if we live in SOTX zone 9b-ish? It's so hot here. 100° or more everyday for a month. Maybe the extra foliage will help shade them? I've been leaving a lot on the maters too, to help keep them cool.
A deer or two ate my watermelons last night. They got a few tomatoes and peppers too. They jumped a fence that's kept them out of my garden beds for three years until last night. It's been so dry here, they're starving. We literally had buzzards in the neighbors yard yesterday. I don't remember a drier Spring than this one has been. 1 3/4 inches of rain since February according to my gauge. I'm in Texas zone 8A south of Austin. Some areas around here got hit by storms, but they all missed us here. I'm thinking about opening the gates and just letting them have what's left. It's sad.
Travis re Agrigrow products: watching their videos seems that you use general purpose until blooming and fruit then switch to “flower & fruit”. Not much difference between the two. OK to use just Fruit Flowers from start to finish? Looks like Good Stuff!!
Yeah there's not much difference in the formulations. I tend to use both interchangeably, but try to remember to use Fruit and Flower on the fruiting stuff.
I’m a little further south than you are in Georgia. My tomatoes were “toast” last week. Once we hit 95 they just stopped growing. Have been in a drought here also. Terrible tomato year…pitiful. Makes me want to grow those heat disease resistant hybrids next year. Which ones would be good if I want them for canning whole tomatoes as well as eating fresh?
Great vid Travis. Nothing better than homemade tomato sauce, and you are right about the recipes. Closely kept family secrets passed down from many generations ago. Have a great weekend.
Them are midgets . I have tremendous red Okra and regular Spineless ones about four to five feet tall and produce for over two month and they are still growing like magic. And they have been transplanted three time to bigger growing pots till I put them from my nursery to their ten dollar holes. Then watered them in the morning and took care of them and had to fight the ants and their buddies the aphids. Because they will destroy your flowers. I have some okra in 5 gallon self watering systems. They are growing great and love water. Once we hit those high temperatures here in Florida . I just kept them watered. They I love heat and water. Once the super hot temperatures arrived I took most my pepper pots out to the shade and that was the trick as well.
I sure hoipe y'all get a good rain or those peanuts won't peg. My uncle Dr. Ray Mixon was one of the top peanut researchers in Auburn and then Tifton back in the 1960s through 80s.
I watched this video a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised when you said you planted your okra in your poorest soil. Now I've watched another video that talks about all the additives they use to grow okra; compost, fertilizer, etc. anything to make the soil rich. I've always planted my okra like you in an out of the way, unused area in my garden. What are your thoughts on the soil additives?
Me and my daddy made the mistake of using 46-0-0 on some Clemson spineless and cow horn okra one year. It didn’t start producing until it was 6-7 feet tall! 😂
Have you grown White Velvet before? It seems to be a less common variety. Last year I grew okra (Clemson Spineless) for the first time, this year, I'm adding White Velvet, Jing Orange, Red Burgundy and Jambalaya.
We are in desperate need of rain here in south Alabama. Some people got about a inch a couple days ago, but it missed us. I like okra but my son won't eat it. Is it to late to put in 3 or 4 plants just for me? I've almost always planted okra until I move to town. You can take the girl out of the country but you can't get the country out of the girl. I like the Alabama red okra because it gets huge before it gets to hard. From my understanding the inderminate will grow and make tomatoes til frost, if desease doesn't take them out.
Have you considered just topping the heirlooms above the trellis and allowing the plants to put all their energy into ripening the already formed fruit? If your plants will die from heat/disease sometime in July anyway, then I don't see a benefit to letting them to continue to produce more leaves and flowers now.
I'm growing 2 zucchinis and 2 squashes in my backyard garden this year. We usually have good success growing these. This year, however, our fruits are small and I cannot figure out why. I water them 2-3 times weekly (drip irrigation) and feed them weekly so i am stumped by the small fruit size. Plants are healthy. I spray them weekly with a broad spectrum disease and pest control. Any ideas?
So, I hand pollinated a few squash and, low and behold, those squash are looking nice and plump. It's a head scratcher as I am seeing plenty of bees. I didn't think incomplete pollination would be a thing with squash.
I’m lazy as hell and always forget to stake my Tom plants till they fall over on their own. Then I stake. Never have breakage issues as they already used to the leaning life lol 😂
I put okra in the ground 6 weeks ago and still haven't gotten the plants to grow over 2 feet tall. it's getting good water *not to much* and good soil (probably to good?) can't figure out why they haven't taken off
I realize this is a year old already, But you’ve been doing it a while, I figure you know what you are doing. My Okra is final producing Zone 6 SE MI, mid Aug. I planted mine May. No growth until now, Aug. No pre-plant fertilizer. Finally hit them with some nitrogen Alaska 5-1-1 liquid. Also got the expensive AgroThrive 3-3-5 liquid which I’m now applying. I have red burgundy, Clemson spineless, emerald, jambalaya. We’ve had exceptional GOOD rains this year. Not too much, not too little. Plus drip hoses. Tomatoes are best ever. I would do the heavy pre-plant fertilizer next time. Unless they are just a HOT weather crop, which finally kicks them off. Not sure what else inhibited their growth. Maybe that’s why Okra is not popular in the north. Might not be hot enough for long enough. Frost was a killer, mid Oct. last year.
It's kind of a catch 22. Heavily pruning them has made it easier to keep the insects under control, but less foliage has caused them to suffer more from the heat.
I really wonder about what yall eat sometimes... 20 jars of sauce is only gonna get you sauced stuff like once every 3 weeks, little less...maybe 2.5 weeks. And I'd assume that's a 2 yr supply since you hadn't made it for 2 years. Which means those 20 jars is more like every 2 months..... I've noticed your preserving numbers are interesting for other items too. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
One quart jar of sauce will last several meals. It doesn't take that much sauce for a couple pizzas. And 1/4 cup or so is plenty enough to sufficiently coat a bowl of pasta.
Never understood why you would want to keep a recipe a secret for just a family. Its not like your going to lose your livelihood to teach other people how to make something. Secrecy like this is how cultures slowly die.
I don’t see why your tomato’s won’t just creep on over that noodle. Just bought 5gal of Agrothrive but your code wouldn’t work, no big deal just thought I’d mention
This is not for Lazy Dog Farm, but for all you out there who won't share recipes...Why?...why should you be the only ones who enjoy something good? It's not like folks are asking to share your wife, husband, or money... or that you have the secret to turn lead into gold. It's selfish and it's bs.
Happy to have this debate any time. That particular treasured family sauce recipe, perfected over generations, has emotional value to that Italian family, and it was a gesture of great friendship that they would share it with the Key family. I would dearly like to see it also, but I certainly do not have right to demand access to that or any recipe. The internet and countless cookbooks have wonderful sauce recipes available from people who are motivated to publish them. You can also create your own to your taste.
@@wwsuwannee7993 Proprietary information most often has monetary value, but it can also take the form of sentimental or emotional value as is the case with this family tomato sauce recipe. It has value or you wouldn't want it so badly. In any case, it's theirs to share or keep private just as they please.
@@markware7748 You are correct about propriety information, and wether they share or not is up to them, but it doesn't change my attitude. Also, I never said I wanted their recipe, I have my own, which I would happily share with anyone
Well, I just spent the last 4 days making tomato sauce with my Amish Paste harvest! I grew 143 pounds of those "Maters and ended up with 21 quarts of sauce! Also, I didn't grow the same varieties as you, but I DID grow a Brandywine tomato this year that weighed in at 1 pound and 12 ounces. I was impressed with myself! HAHA
Way to go!
Great job!
Epic! Congrats!!!
What is Amish Paste Harvest
Lookong good..we are in central eastern Virginia..i plant clemson okra..they do well with hot summers..they grew over 5ft tall last year..produced good..i have been trying to get more drought resistent seeds..temps are bouncing..cool this week..next week 70 &80s..thankyou for videos
I’m waaaay behind in my OKREE planting, but I got some in a few days ago. I can hardly wait to harvest. First time growing them. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Boy, would I love to taste that sauce!
Better late than never!
I love watching you bite into the raw okra, it really tells you what you need to know. Thanks Travis!
Amen Travis. It is unbelievably cool to use all your own harvest to make a sauce. Excellent video sir.
Thanks 👍
I love okree!
It was 100 and humid most of the week here in central OH, and my indeterminate tomatoes have been so sad. I’m glad I’d fed them last week as I think that helped them limp through. Today was 82 and breezy and you would not have recognized them as the same patch of tomatoes. At the end of today, they look amazing.
OH gardeners like to brag about having a ripe tomato by the 4th of July. I love to see the gardens in different climates! I’m jealous of the spring mater sandwiches in the South.
Good job on those 'maters! Being Greek and Southern Italian on my father's side, I make plain tomato sauce with mine, because Greek tomato sauce is traditionally seasoned with oregano and cinnamon, and Southern Italian sauce is seasoned with basil. I never know what I'm going to crave, so I keep the sauce on the shelf plain and season as the craving hits.
Ours is more of a southern Italian sauce. Didn't realize there were regional differences, but thanks for sharing that!
I loved the tomato sauce story. How sweet the sharing and community, the relationship you have established with that family. Enjoy your sauce!!!
(And thanks for the okra tip. I think the soil where my plants are now might be a little too rich, but next year I'll be ready 👍🏾)
It is nice to see the harvest of your labors turned into such a beautiful multitasked sauce.
Saturday afternoon, Louisiana zone 8b, north of Lake Pontchartrain = 100 F. Same for like Mon & Tues. Dry dry dry. ☹️. Good luck, Lazy Dog Farm.
You’re doing us a real number flaunting that pasta sauce and keeping secrets!
I know, I know. Not fair. lol
I gave up on the heirloom tomatoes. I stick to the hybrids myself, except for a few cherry tomato plants. It's good to see you success.
Haven't even planted my okra yet. It is just one of those years. I usually grow my tomatoes to the top of the poles or canes and then let them fall back down by gravity when they reach the top. They do fine that way. They break but then they keep on keeping on. We just got our first ripe sungolds today, and now I am craving those big slicers real bad!
A good way to grow tomatoes is the "Lower and Lean" trellising system.
Like the noodle trick😀
Nice to make something you really like with the tomatoes.😀
Hope you get some rain soon.
You're very correct and honorable to guard that family heirloom sauce recipe. My wife's recipe makes me roll my eyes, fall on the floor and kick my legs in the air. She's a very generous woman, generally speaking, but wouldn't disclose that recipe to a third party if you choked her.
I ate my first ever Kellogg's Breakfast tomato this week. It was almost 1.5 lbs. No doubt, the best BLT I've ever eaten. 🥪 It's a keeper.
Nice!
Perfect timing, I just went out today and discovered a few pods on the okra, almost the same size as your plants. Removed the pods and flowers even though still on the small side , we have a lot of high heat to 100's later in the week here and no rain in sight. I just removed the pods to help the plant focus more on growth so it can reach further down with its roots to help with the heat. The weather here has knocked a lot of the gardeners around big time and the TH-cam garden channels from all over the state have just about written off growing any tomatoes to fruiting this year.
Excellent video!!! I found you on Instagram and LOVE your channel. I didn't know this about okra. I learned so much. Thanks for sharing. Sammie-B.F.H.
Glad you found us over here too!
This is my first year growing okra so I needed to see this 👍
Hope it grows well for you!
On your tall tomatoes, loosen the string and slowly lower them to the side, each day or two. Worth a try.
I do weird stuff with tomato sauce, like add Allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, curry powder, or whatever else I feel like. If I feel lazy I will add s squeeze of some Ranch, or BBQ sauce. I used to work in a Restaurant chain and found their Marinara sauce to be ordinary like many Spag sauces. There is no wrong as long as you like it.
Great stuff Travis! God bless you and the Family. I'm glad to see you use the Secret Sauce. Lol. I used it on a few specific plants and noticed a huge difference especially when I mixed it with the chicken soup.(from Dr Jimz.) Thank you for all the great videos sir!!!
Thanks for sending that!
Emerald green velvet! I pickled a ton a few years ago. Delicious!!!!
It's a good one!
Travis you got me on the Kellogg's as of now my friend but I think I got one coming that will take you down. 🤣🤣🤠🤠 . I don't know about you but, It's gotten so hot I tired of the garden this year already though.
It's been a struggle this last week. I'll be planting a lot of cover crops soon so I can take a little bit of a break.
Growing Okinawa pink okra from Baker Creek
Travis, it was emerald green velvet. That's what I'm growing.
That's a good one!
I planted okra for the first time this year. I put in a lot of time studying how this vegetable grows. Thanks for the video Trav.
Enjoy your first okree experience!
I only heard about tomatoes dying in the heat, a few years ago. You can lower and lean your indeterminates to allow the tops to keep growing. Mine have always produced through the heat, and right up until the first frost. The plants might start looking rough, but the fruit is still good
Sometimes I put a string around them and gradually pull them down as they grow.
The tomatoes usually break, but they keep growing and receiving nutrients. I've never seen one "gracefully bend."
That pool noodle is brilliant. I’m running out to grab one, I’ve been worried about the tomatoes that have breached the trellis in my garden. I’m not so sure that it will be “graceful” but I’m hopeful that the stems won’t break!
If you're lucky enough to get a sucker near the bottom of the tomato plants you can terminate the main stem at the top and just start all over with the sucker.
I’ve been doing that for a couple of weeks now. Will probably be wishful thinking. We have the HOT WEATHER for 3 more months. Even so it’s too early to start looking forward to next year.
Thank you very kindly for testing out my comment re heirloom tomatoes being heavy feeders. The soil most were developed in is so rich, supplementation is best if grown elsewhere.
It may interest your northern viewers (I am in Canada) that the European-origin indeterminates like yours put on a very strong second flush in regions where the weather cools and regular rainfall rain resumes in late summer....producing until frost.
Thanks for the info!
Oh boy!! I got 2 kellogs im just babysitting them bad boys... I need to go get me a scale😅😅
You sure do! Be sure to share a photo when you get one.
Thanks
If you don't get to plant early it's ok. Okra is just like cotton the first of June is just right for Okra or cotton. when it come to tomato sauce the more you put in it the worse it will taste I have found out. I also found a way to make tomate sauce that so good that I drink it out of a glass, but it's great to put it anything that you love to eat.
I think the noodle trick will work as long as when they get longer you keep the suckers trimmed off to reduce the weight of the vine and you continually attach it with green growers tape tying the vine going down the pole, using your noodle as a cushion, so it doesn't directly sit on the pole! I am learning this myself, because once the weight of any tomatoes growing on that upper segment get heavy, the vine will start cracking and breaking at the bend!
I want that recipe!!!
We put insulation foam for pipe on top of our tomatoe cages (looks like a pool noodle but already has a cut on it)and the tomatoes bend over without creasing or breaking. My kellogs breakfast are not larged this year. Dr Wyches are going to out size them I think.
My Big Zac entry is coming! In late August or September. Idaho timing is different, but otherwise our garden is very similar to yours!
Can't wait to see it!
We enjoy your videos. We are zone 7a East, TN.
That pasta sauce soulds like how we make ours...takes hrs and hrs but is the best sauce. All ingredients except olive oil, salt, and pepper come from our garden. We dont give our recipe out either because we may add more garlic, herbs and spices depending on taste...so the recipe varies slightly from batch to batch but is always lip smackingly good.🙂
Sounds very similar to the recipe we used. Ours will have tend to have a different color depending on the types of tomatoes we use.
Well I really only have the small invincible variety, might end up with about 20+ lbs they all didn’t ripped at once, still have a few on my almost dead plants lol. But we froze bags of them as they ripened. My thoughts were to can after everything is ripe, I have seen where some people froze them and just thaw them out all at once to can ,we will give it a shot. Pretty genius with the noodle trick hopefully it works
That's the thing with tomatoes. You have to plant a decent amount to can a bunch at one time. But then you have way more than you need once you've done all the canning you want to do. lol
Last year, I grew Brandywine toms. Covered me up with heirloom slicing... But it Was nothing to have several 1.5 to 2# tomatoes. My neighbor wanted a contest and they grew beefsteak and I, the Brandywine... I decided to go with all hybrid toms (red snapper) for canning... But for a big tomato, my money is on Brandywine.
Brandywine, Abe Lincoln, Burpee Porterhouse, and Dr. Wyche's have given me 2 lb or near that. Grow big varieties, feed and water them well, and enjoy!
Did starts on my okra and let them get root bound. Put them in the ground with a little vegetable fertilizer and they were producing at 2 feet. Still haven't fertilized and little water-having to pick ever 2 days at 3 feet. Got to Love Florida heat.
Good to hear they started producing early for you!
Okra leaves are eaten as cooked greens in some places. I haven't tried them yet.
I have not had good luck with getting tomatoes to grow back down the pole. They seem to break and are always trying to grow back up and then break. Hopefully the pool noodle helps. I now use the lower and lean method, but I have a longer mater season than you do. My okree (Ruiz seeds from LDF) has just sprouted, so I'm a ways off from picking. I'm excited to test out the theory that homegrown is better since I haven't been a fan of the mushy slime I've had at restaurants.
It all depends on how you cook it. Don't boil it. We have a great okree and tomatoes recipe on our website that is really good!
Wind storm came an flattened two corn patches one I raised up with a modified Florida weave the other is too big to do that do I have enuf time to replant. (7 b zone )
I think you do.
Those are some big 'maters. The vines should be to loop back down if the bend isn't too sharp. I'm focusing on making pasta sauce this year also and will probably only need to add a dozen diced tomatoes to what I already have. Here is a question for ya. Since you have a pretty long season, are you to grow a late summer/early fall crop of tomatoes? I know the daylight starts to get a bit short but maybe with the right timing, it would be possible.
It can definitely be done here. But I've never tried because we usually have our fill of tomatoes by the middle of summer.
I think you should cover the whole conduit and let the tomatoes grow sideways with a little tying, or lower and lean
I thought about that too ...
For Italian spaghetti sauce, check on line for Buon-A-Petitti- I rechecked that name - a real Italian granny’s recipes.
We finally got some rain after 70+ days of none.
Great to hear!
I'll trade you for that dry weather here in Western Washington State it's in the upper 50s low 60s and raining almost every day which we do get a lot of rain but not in June July and August is usually much warmer and drier than this coldest wettest year I've ever seen here in 55 years I'm done with it.
Great white tomato 2 pounds. Give them a try next year. They get huge.
Thanks for the tip!
I have a similar problem with my tomatoes. I try to encourage them to grow a little sideways and horizontal first. Then they will start to drape over the conduit and grow down. This way it's not such a hard turn over the pipe.
Good idea Skippy.
Got any advice on why some of my tomatoes are brown on the bottom of the fruit. First time this has happened. Thanks
Likely blossom end rot. Could be that you don't have enough calcium in the soil or that your plants are having trouble accessing the calcium.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you.
Also worth noting at the 9:25+ mark, he uses 12 oz per 5 gals. It should be 4 oz per gal. But I apply mine at half strength. It is quite BROWN and expensive - especially that 3-3-5 stuff. But... so far so good!
Not criticizing. Just comparing notes.
Hi there, are you related to Hoss Tools? What are the best dwarf fruit trees to grow in NE Georgia? Thanks.
I used to work there several years ago. We have a variety of fig called Violette de Bourdeaux that stays relatively dwarf. It's a beautiful tree with tasty figs: lazydogfarm.com/products/violette-de-bourdeaux-fig-tree
Should we still prune our okies if we live in SOTX zone 9b-ish?
It's so hot here. 100° or more everyday for a month. Maybe the extra foliage will help shade them? I've been leaving a lot on the maters too, to help keep them cool.
You certainly don't have to prune them. It just makes the harvesting process a little less itchy.
A deer or two ate my watermelons last night. They got a few tomatoes and peppers too. They jumped a fence that's kept them out of my garden beds for three years until last night. It's been so dry here, they're starving. We literally had buzzards in the neighbors yard yesterday. I don't remember a drier Spring than this one has been. 1 3/4 inches of rain since February according to my gauge. I'm in Texas zone 8A south of Austin. Some areas around here got hit by storms, but they all missed us here. I'm thinking about opening the gates and just letting them have what's left. It's sad.
can you run the agrothrive through a drip irrigation?
You can. You just need to make sure to clean the filter regularly because it can clog the filter.
Travis, do you have a problem with the fertigation filter clogging up. I use Agrothrive and my filter keeps clogging. Any suggestions?
As long as I clean the filter before and after injecting the Agrothrive, it works just fine. But if I don't clean it, it will clog.
I have had tomato plants bend over a fence before without breaking so it is possible
How long does jambalaya okra need to be picked ?
It's best when picked around 3-4" long.
Travis re Agrigrow products: watching their videos seems that you use general purpose until blooming and fruit then switch to “flower & fruit”. Not much difference between the two. OK to use just Fruit Flowers from start to finish? Looks like Good Stuff!!
Yeah there's not much difference in the formulations. I tend to use both interchangeably, but try to remember to use Fruit and Flower on the fruiting stuff.
@@LazyDogFarm I used your link to order from Drip Depot (they are Great!!) and Agripro - Fruit Flower 2 gallons) Travis - Thank you!!
I’m a little further south than you are in Georgia. My tomatoes were “toast” last week. Once we hit 95 they just stopped growing. Have been in a drought here also. Terrible tomato year…pitiful. Makes me want to grow those heat disease resistant hybrids next year. Which ones would be good if I want them for canning whole tomatoes as well as eating fresh?
Red Snapper is my favorite.
Great vid Travis. Nothing better than homemade tomato sauce, and you are right about the recipes. Closely kept family secrets passed down from many generations ago. Have a great weekend.
Thanks Tim! You too!
Them are midgets . I have tremendous red Okra and regular Spineless ones about four to five feet tall and produce for over two month and they are still growing like magic. And they have been transplanted three time to bigger growing pots till I put them from my nursery to their ten dollar holes. Then watered them in the morning and took care of them and had to fight the ants and their buddies the aphids. Because they will destroy your flowers. I have some okra in 5 gallon self watering systems. They are growing great and love water. Once we hit those high temperatures here in Florida . I just kept them watered. They I love heat and water. Once the super hot temperatures arrived I took most my pepper pots out to the shade and that was the trick as well.
Do u have any canning videos
Not really. Our kitchen isn't a good spot to film. The audio and lighting in there are pretty bad.
Hey sir what’s the best way to keep the coons and critters out of your corn
We rescued two barn cats from the humane society a few years ago. That worked for us.
I sure hoipe y'all get a good rain or those peanuts won't peg. My uncle Dr. Ray Mixon was one of the top peanut researchers in Auburn and then Tifton back in the 1960s through 80s.
We got a decent one this past week. Could use another though.
I watched this video a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised when you said you planted your okra in your poorest soil. Now I've watched another video that talks about all the additives they use to grow okra; compost, fertilizer, etc. anything to make the soil rich. I've always planted my okra like you in an out of the way, unused area in my garden. What are your thoughts on the soil additives?
Unless the plants start looking deficient or stop producing, I don't see any reason to give them anything.
Will okra do good in grow bags
Never tried it, but don't see why not. The roots may grow through the bag though.
Does okra need fertilizer? (later in the season)?
It could. I would just go by the color of the plants. If they look green and are producing well, I wouldn't give them any.
Me and my daddy made the mistake of using 46-0-0 on some Clemson spineless and cow horn okra one year. It didn’t start producing until it was 6-7 feet tall! 😂
I believe it. I'm surprised it ever produced at all.
@@LazyDogFarm I was too! But it was a big haul that year!
Have you grown White Velvet before? It seems to be a less common variety. Last year I grew okra (Clemson Spineless) for the first time, this year, I'm adding White Velvet, Jing Orange, Red Burgundy and Jambalaya.
Have not grown white velvet, but I'd love to get my hands on some so we could try it.
@@LazyDogFarm I got mine from sowtrueseed. They don't list germination rates but I got 8/8 to germinate on my paper towel so they seem decent.
We are in desperate need of rain here in south Alabama. Some people got about a inch a couple days ago, but it missed us. I like okra but my son won't eat it. Is it to late to put in 3 or 4 plants just for me? I've almost always planted okra until I move to town. You can take the girl out of the country but you can't get the country out of the girl. I like the Alabama red okra because it gets huge before it gets to hard.
From my understanding the inderminate will grow and make tomatoes til frost, if desease doesn't take them out.
Not too late for okree at all. I've planted as late as August and still did fine.
How can we get that sauce recipe, or is it a family secret
Family secret of the family that gave it to us.
Have you considered just topping the heirlooms above the trellis and allowing the plants to put all their energy into ripening the already formed fruit? If your plants will die from heat/disease sometime in July anyway, then I don't see a benefit to letting them to continue to produce more leaves and flowers now.
I did top a few of them and let a few of the others grow just to see what would happen.
I'm growing 2 zucchinis and 2 squashes in my backyard garden this year. We usually have good success growing these. This year, however, our fruits are small and I cannot figure out why. I water them 2-3 times weekly (drip irrigation) and feed them weekly so i am stumped by the small fruit size. Plants are healthy. I spray them weekly with a broad spectrum disease and pest control. Any ideas?
Unless it's a pollination issue, I'm not sure.
@@LazyDogFarm I see plenty of bees. It's a head scratcher. Maybe I'll try hand pollinating some just to be sure.
So, I hand pollinated a few squash and, low and behold, those squash are looking nice and plump. It's a head scratcher as I am seeing plenty of bees. I didn't think incomplete pollination would be a thing with squash.
It's time, it's Olive tree time. For your sauce, I think it's time for you to plant some olive trees. 😁
I might have to look into that!
I swear it ain't been raining hardly none lately
Ain't that the truth!
Beautifil
Thank you
I’m lazy as hell and always forget to stake my Tom plants till they fall over on their own. Then I stake. Never have breakage issues as they already used to the leaning life lol 😂
Mine usually break
How to get rid of ants that are eat the flowers and okra on my plants I’m from south Georgia
I put okra in the ground 6 weeks ago and still haven't gotten the plants to grow over 2 feet tall. it's getting good water *not to much* and good soil (probably to good?) can't figure out why they haven't taken off
Hmm. Is it nice and warm where you are?
@@LazyDogFarm SWFL, 100+ every day
Just Keep Them On The Top Run
I realize this is a year old already, But you’ve been doing it a while, I figure you know what you are doing.
My Okra is final producing Zone 6 SE MI, mid Aug. I planted mine May. No growth until now, Aug. No pre-plant fertilizer. Finally hit them with some nitrogen Alaska 5-1-1 liquid. Also got the expensive AgroThrive 3-3-5 liquid which I’m now applying. I have red burgundy, Clemson spineless, emerald, jambalaya.
We’ve had exceptional GOOD rains this year. Not too much, not too little. Plus drip hoses. Tomatoes are best ever. I would do the heavy pre-plant fertilizer next time. Unless they are just a HOT weather crop, which finally kicks them off. Not sure what else inhibited their growth. Maybe that’s why Okra is not popular in the north. Might not be hot enough for long enough. Frost was a killer, mid Oct. last year.
Do you fertilize your okra once it starts producing?
I don't unless the plants start looking yellow like they need some. As long as the leaves are dark green, I don't.
Those poor Indeterminate toms look like they are sunburned lol... Maybe a "Dream shade screen to go with the trellis to make ya jealous" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
It's kind of a catch 22. Heavily pruning them has made it easier to keep the insects under control, but less foliage has caused them to suffer more from the heat.
I really wonder about what yall eat sometimes...
20 jars of sauce is only gonna get you sauced stuff like once every 3 weeks, little less...maybe 2.5 weeks.
And I'd assume that's a 2 yr supply since you hadn't made it for 2 years. Which means those 20 jars is more like every 2 months.....
I've noticed your preserving numbers are interesting for other items too.
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One quart jar of sauce will last several meals. It doesn't take that much sauce for a couple pizzas. And 1/4 cup or so is plenty enough to sufficiently coat a bowl of pasta.
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All my Dwarf okra got eaten by a Bunny mom. I had to replant with the normal sized.
Never understood why you would want to keep a recipe a secret for just a family. Its not like your going to lose your livelihood to teach other people how to make something. Secrecy like this is how cultures slowly die.
I don’t see why your tomato’s won’t just creep on over that noodle. Just bought 5gal of Agrothrive but your code wouldn’t work, no big deal just thought I’d mention
Make sure it's one word, "lazydogfarm" with no spaces.
@@LazyDogFarm me mr impatient gave up but next time for sure. Thanks man
Lol looks thirsty
This is not for Lazy Dog Farm, but for all you out there who won't share recipes...Why?...why should you be the only ones who enjoy something good? It's not like folks are asking to share your wife, husband, or money... or that you have the secret to turn lead into gold. It's selfish and it's bs.
Happy to have this debate any time. That particular treasured family sauce recipe, perfected over generations, has emotional value to that Italian family, and it was a gesture of great friendship that they would share it with the Key family. I would dearly like to see it also, but I certainly do not have right to demand access to that or any recipe. The internet and countless cookbooks have wonderful sauce recipes available from people who are motivated to publish them. You can also create your own to your taste.
@@markware7748 If they are not selling it, there is no "debate".
@@wwsuwannee7993 Proprietary information most often has monetary value, but it can also take the form of sentimental or emotional value as is the case with this family tomato sauce recipe. It has value or you wouldn't want it so badly. In any case, it's theirs to share or keep private just as they please.
Sorry that you don't respect other people's culture.
@@markware7748 You are correct about propriety information, and wether they share or not is up to them, but it doesn't change my attitude. Also, I never said I wanted their recipe, I have my own, which I would happily share with anyone