Grow okra this summer to enjoy some creative cuisine in your kitchen. Think cornmeal-dredged fried okra, okra muffins, okra succotash and much more. (For details on growing many other vegetables and ...

LEICESTER, N.C. — It was a dewy morning when I joined Chris Smith, author of “The Whole Okra,” at the Utopian Seed Project’s experimental farm near Asheville, North Carolina. It wasn’t even 9 a.m. and ...

Growing okra in your home vegetable garden can provide a wealth of pods to use in the kitchen. Indeed, the plants are so prolific that you may have more pods than you can cook. If you leave some on ...

One of the most common questions we receive is where to find seeds of a certain fruit, vegetable, herb or flower in their city. More often than not, the seeds are usually available in local gardening ...

Okra plant is an herbaceous plant belonging to the Malvaceae family grown for its edible seed pods. Okra plants have short straight stems that can be hairy or hairless with heart-shaped leaves. Okra ...

I have trouble getting my okra seeds to come up in the spring. I have to plant seeds into my garden two or three times before I get a good stand. I’ve heard that you need to soak the seeds in hot ...

Okra, or more formally Abelmoschus esculentus Moench, is a popular ingredient in Southern cuisine. Its origin is disputed with West Africa, Ethiopia and South Asia, as the plant itself thrives in ...