Okra

 

Anyone any experience of growing okra?  I planted it kind of at random, as
it was lying around and I'd never grown it before.  Never tasted it either,
actually.

I currently have 2 plants (I think I sold some at the summer fete) in the
greenhouse, still in quite small pots - both about 6" tall atm, but one has
a bud that may be a flower but looking again today looks more like it may be
a new leaf bud.

So ... what shall I do with them now?

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I was weaned onto it :-)


Treat them much like tomatoes, and pick the pods young - IF you get
any!  I have never succeeded here, though have tried a few times.
They have a fairly attractive yellow flower.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 



<vicky wrote

I hate to say it but compost them is my suggestion. Loving Okra as we do (
done Indian style) I tried growing a bed of it years ago in a hot summer and
they still didn't grow, got a couple of fruit but you need a lot more than
that for a meal and they were not nice anyway, too old.  It's just not hot
enough or bright enough in the UK from what I saw, the plants just sulk
here.
Out where it's grown it can be quite a tall plant, I've seen pickers
disappear in the field it was so tall.
As Nick says, nice flowers.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK
 

 


Heh.  I'll not hold any hope out for them, then.  But mostly I'm growing
them for the fun of growing something new, not to get a crop particularly.
It's like the melon plants I grew last year - I think we had 6 or 7 plants,
and we got 2.5 melons in total.  They were lovely, actually, but the effort
vs produce ratio!

 


No Name;894576 Wrote:

kind of at random,

You may have had it as "bhindi" at an Indian restaurant


Keep the warm, plenty of water, feed with tomato feed. They're at the
less hardy
end of things that we grow in the greenhouse - in a spectrum
going from
tomatoes, chillis, cucumbers, sweet peppers, aubergines,,
they're beyond
aubergines. But on the plus side, you don't need to ripen
them - indeed, you
should pick them young and small because if you leave
them too long they go
stringy.

I've grown them before on a sunny widowsill. I'm now trying again after
many
years gap, in a greenhouse. My plants are about 9-12 inches tall,
not flowering
yet, but there's a long while to go before the end of
summer.

To be on the safe side,, I'd consider hand pollination should you be
lucky
enough to get two flowers out at the same time ;-)




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