General Gardening

Harvest and Store Okra

After transplanting okra, it is ready to start harvesting in about 60 days.  If you are not growing the spineless variety, you may want to use gardening gloves when harvesting! A word of advice – don’t pick the okra flower because it produces the okra which comes out after the flower.  As I mentioned the […]

Recipes Vegetables

Fried Okra

Once you harvest the okra, you need to cook it or store it.  I tried making fried okra several years ago after I had it at Cracker Barrel Restaurant.   The recipe that I found on the internet was so labor intensive that I just wanted to scream.  I decided to search the internet again for […]

Blooms Vegetables

Growing and Harvesting Okra

I planted my okra a little later than usual in June.  This plant like lots of sun and warm weather.  In spite of the cool summer, I still got a fair amount.  While  I didn’t grow okra last year, I grew three okra plants the year before that and had so many okras that I […]