One of my favorite summer crops is in bloom in my garden, Okra. This is a very attractive plant with very attractive flowers. The flowers are very similar in appearance to the hibiscus flower!
This self-pollinating flower only stays in bloom in my garden for 1 day and only part of that one day. It is pollinated very rapidly by insects and even wind and bares fruit shortly after pollination. By tomorrow I expect to see a small Okra where this flower is now.
The plant that this bloom is on has 7 other blooms about to open so I expect it to be a fairly heavy producer over the next few months. As long as Okra is harvested often it will continue to produce until the first frost of the season!
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July 31st, 2009 at 2:03 am
When do you start harvesting okra? Last year, my okra were very fibrous—-even the small ones (about 2 inches long) were tough. Could it be the variety I got?
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July 31st, 2009 at 3:10 am
@momgateway,
If they were still fibrous at only 2 inches long it could very well be your variety. I harvest between 2-4″ and all seems to be well.
What they do you plant?
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