Found in the joints between the plants’ stems and its hairy five to seven-lobed leaves, those five-sided pods narrow to ...

At the local greenhouse where I buy many of my spring bedding plants and vegetable starts, one of the most popular requests seems to be for okra. Do people like it for its tasty seed pods, or because ...

Okra water is made by soaking sliced okra in water for several hours. The Okra water has a distinct, potentially unappealing texture compared to plain water. The water and fiber in okra aid the ...

Choose stems that snap cleanly and don’t bend. Okra exudes a glutinous juice in cooking which thickens stews and braised dishes. It can be eaten raw in salads or cooked with curries or vegetable ...

Liquid Nanoclay halved the amount of water used to grow these okra plants in desert soil "The treatment gives sand particles a clay coating which completely changes their physical properties and ...

Many people dislike okra because of its texture, which is often described unappealingly as mucilaginous or slimy. If the vegetable is cooked quickly, though, it doesn’t become slimy – instead ...

Firstly prepare the okra. Wash the okra under cold running water and dry each one individually using kitchen paper. Top and tail the okra and cut into 1–2cm/ ½–¾in pieces. Heat the olive oil ...

Do you need to throw all the soil away every year and start fresh with new soil? Or, can you add about half a pot of new ...

October is the time to prepare your garden for the upcoming holiday season. AgriLife Extension Gardening Guide shares tips and advice.

Though seed-saving is common, the situation with this okra plant at this North Jersey farm is anything but. This is Bamyeh Falastinia okra, a crop native to the Palestinian territory of the West ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

Drew Barrymore highlighted one particular recipe in the segment on her show: Stephen’s Kindergarten Soup. The soup is just ...