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 ...

You might think of the vegetable okra as a mysterious finger-shaped pod with a notoriously slippery texture. If you've eaten it, you may know just how versatile and delicious the summer vegetable can ...

Botanists believe okra originated in modern-day Ethiopia. Cultivation spread quickly to North and West Africa, and India via established trade routes. It is thought that the plant reached both Brazil ...

One of the easiest vegetables to grow in our gumbo soil is okra, a heat loving member of the hibiscus family that can handle drought, doesn’t have major pest problems and needs little more than ...

Okra is one of those vegetables with a polarizing reputation. Whether you call it slimy, gooey, sticky, or slippery, if ...

The last of the spring cool fronts make their way through our area in early May, so the intense heat of summer is right around the corner. Warm-season vegetables planted in late February, March and ...

Now’s the time to plant peppers and okra, and it’s your last chance to plant tomatoes with some expectation that you will produce and ripen a crop before the hot weather shuts down production. For all ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - As your spring-season greens give up in the summer heat, replace them with easy-to-grow summer crops like sweet potatoes, summer peas and okra. Summer peas include ...

BURGUNDY OKRA grows in the garden. The pods should be harvested when they are 3 to 5 inches long and tender. Introduced to the South with the slave trade, okra has become a huge part of Southern ...

It's morning in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and Yemi Amu of Oko Farms is tending to her crops as her next-door neighbor releases his pigeons from their coop. "They never bother us," she says of the birds ...

OKRA: You can't really have a garden in the South without okra. Native to tropical Africa, it never gets too hot for okra to thrive here. Plant seeds now into well-prepared beds, spacing the seeds 4 ...