Once you start picking okra, you have to keep up because it grows fast. Skip a day and the pods may already be too big and tough for cooking purposes. If you pick them at just the right time, when ...

Many vegetables are being moved out of the back yard and into the front-yard flower gardens. And why not, if they produce attractive plants and eye-catching flowers and fruits? Such is the case with ...

Okra has never become a familiar vegetable here in the northern part of our country, but of course it is a staple in the American deep south. The pods of many types of okra are prickly on the outside, ...

Time-lapse of planting an okra from a seed to harvest-able pods. The okra seed was sowed under potting mix soil in a 10-inch ...

POD PERSON: In his new book, Chris Smith, marketing and communications manager for Sow True Seed, dives deeply into a range of culinary and other practical uses for okra pods, leaves, seeds, flowers ...

QI have been growing okra plants for many years. Last year some buds swelled without bursting into the beautiful flowers, although the pods did grow underneath the unopened buds, if a bit smaller than ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. If you see shoot terminals, including stems, leaves, and flowers, on your apple tree that appear as if they have been torched, it is a sign of ...