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Veseys Family Farmers Seed Cooperative Non-Hybrid Seeds | Non-Hybrid Vegetable Fruit Grain Herb Seeds Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue Emerald - Heirloom, Untreated, Open Pollinated, Vegetable Seeds - Sustainable Seed Company Emerald Okra (56 days) Introduced by Campbell's Soup If I remember correctly this was a Cajun cook's dream. My granny hailed from the great state of Louisiana and many a time I remember smelling fried okra wafting from the kitchen during a fish fry. You can easily fill a gumbo pot with the abundant pods from Emerald okra. Granny always picked 3-4" okra to cut up, be dipped in corn meal and fried to perfection in the cast iron skillet I now have. You guessed it! Recommended by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. The Texas Cooperative Extension at Texas A&M recommends this variety for Texas! For those of you in the South where I come from you will have no problem growing okra, but if like me you now find yourself in an area with cool summers like the Pacific Northwest growing okra can be a tricky business.