Okra is traditionally a southern U.S. plant that thrives in warm weather. Here’s how to grow okra plants in your own garden!
Okra is easy to grow and use and looks lovely throughout the growing season due to its beautiful flowers. It’s also rich in vitamin A and low in calories, which makes it a great addition to your diet.
Okra can be consumed in a number of ways—raw, pickled, stir-fried—you name it!
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At the end of season, do I trim the okra plants down or do I pull them up all together?
Okra
Generally, okra should be pulled up and disposed of at the end of the growing season. However, there is something called “ratooning,” which is the process of cutting down the okra plants in late summer to encourage a second production of okra into fall. This is usually done in late July to mid August, and stems are cut down to about 6 to 12 inches. Depending on where you are located, it’s likely too late in the season for ratooning this year, so we would recommend pulling up your plants if they’ve stopped producing and your first fall frost date is less than 10 or so weeks away.
Clemson Spineless
Just curious why "Clemson Sprineless" isn't on your recommended variety list? It's about all I see around here.
Clemson okra
It is Oct. 5 /19. My okra is growing limbs out of the stalk and producing even more okra. Is this normal ? I live in mobile , Al.
planted OKRA first time
I planted a garden for first time in my yard where grass was. Covered the grass until it died then simply plugged the ground and dropped in the plants that came up from seeds in the kitchen. Wow! Everything was mixed up and I didn't know what was what. Spinach, 2 types Lettuce, cucumbers, okra, 3 kinds of peppers, even a cantaloupe, radishes beets, carrots, basil, oregano, broccoli cauliflower and green onions 2 types.... in a tiny space. Everything just started growing. I didn't know what they were but after a month or so, I saw cucumbers, lettuce, a beet, or maybe it was a radish? a banana pepper, and the okra had flowers but nothing on them. Today the OKRA is as tall as me, at least 5 ft, and they just keep giving me okra. I didn't know I could just throw them in the freezer, so THANKS! I think it took my okra about 2 or 3 months to all get going. The one plant in most sun started early but the others are just now going. My neighbor told me after I planted them all in little holes that I should have cultivated the dirt before planting, but the plants didn't know that and they just took off from that little hole I put them in anyway. It has changed my life. I didn't think I could grow a garden, but I didn't really, I just took the time to plant a few seeds, and they did the rest. Makes me want to plant the seed of a dream I've had all my life and see if it will grow!
Okra
Planted okra in May and it stopped growing at about 4 inches tall. I have always had good crops before.
Okra problems
Do you think it was planted too early? Night temperatures must average above 50 degrees F., okra fails to grow properly.
Another thought is root knot nematodes. If there are swellings on plant roots, the plant can’t take in all its nutrients and gets stunted.
Of course, once okra does harvest, you need to cut old pods from the plant or it will stop producing.
Want to spray okra with Epsom salt solution.
What would be the proper ratio and would it be beneficial.
Epsom Salts solution ratio
Jeff, use about 1 tablespoon Epsom salts to 1 gallon of water.
Epsom salt spray
What is the purpose of the epsom salt spray?
Epsom Salt Spray
Epsom salts are made of magnesium and sulfur, which are beneficial nutrients required by plants. Magnesium especially helps with photosynthesis, and therefore fruit production. Measured spraying of certain plants with an epsom salt solution is a good way to ensure that the plants are getting enough magnesium to produce healthy fruits.
okra
how do you apply salt water to okra and not kill plants?
Okra
Can okra be planted in elevated cedar planter?
okra in containers
It sure can! Make sure your planter is at least 12 to 14 inches deep. Also, it is best to choose a dwarf variety, such as “Baby Bubba” or “Cajun Jewel.” Dwarf types won’t grow higher than 5 feet. (Other okra varieties can grow as much as 8 feet or more, which would be difficult in an elevated container.)
Okra
my okra has come up but the plants are spindly and falling over, any suggestions?
I usually get a bit of dirt
I usually get a bit of dirt and press a mound around the bottom of the plant and it does the trick, but another solution might be to get some sort of a stick like bamboo or just a long one that has fallen from a tree and tie them together with a twist-tie. Hope this helps:)
okra- companion and combative vegetable plant
I live in East Texas and would like to know what are companion vegetable plants and combative vegetable plants to plant along side okra. No one haves okra on their companion/combative plant charts. Could you please, please help me out with the answer. Thank you
okra
tomatoes and squash. no intervention or disease. 4 to 5 feet row. Spray with dishwashing liquid 5 to 1 once a week for achids and nematodes
can I intercrop okra with cucumber?
Am in Ghana and want to go into okra production but I want to find out if I can grow okra and cucumber itercroppeped? if yes how can I go about it.
Okra
Between my daughter and myself we had so much Okra did not know what to do with it. Started become creative with Okra as well as learning how to can it. Finally my neighbors found out I had so much and I started giving it away. My goodness in the grocery store it's $3.48 lb.
Can one process okra or green
Can one process okra or green beans for better conservation instead of leaving the produce to rot?
OKra
If have a lot of okra, your local food store usually loves local Okra. I pick mine in the evening and deliver it to the store on my way to work. After work I swing by and get paid. I pick every other day, around 40 lbs. local okra is not wilted or bruised due to shipping
Most people don't like picking okra due to the itching.
Why didn't My Okra harvested yet?
I planted the okra in late may early june, i have yet to see any of the okra harvest, i have nice leaves but not an okra in sight, is something wrong?
Okra production
Best guess is too much nitrogen in the fertilizer.
Get a super bloom liquid fertilizer to promote flowering
Okra
Mine is just now starting to come in. I had the same problem. It took longer than the 52 weeks to maturity.
okra leaves
my okra plant has holes in their leaves!!!! what is causing this??? I need help!!!!!!! what should I do????
Holes in Okra Leaves
Insect pests are the most likely culprits. Please see our pest pages for more information.
I want to plant okro. I am from Cameroon leaving in Douala
When is the appropriate time to start. What are the things needed for the cultivation of okro.
How to plant okra
If you are serious about the production okra you can contact me me for guides.am an agriculture student in the university of buea third year and am always in Douala from time to time, contact 670382172
growing okra
am from Botswana and I have planted okra but it has been affected by a hash coldness, the leaves, flowers and fruits were affected but the stems are still okay now I wanted to find out if there is still anything that can be done.
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