Grow okra this summer to enjoy some creative cuisine in your kitchen. Think cornmeal-dredged fried okra, okra muffins, okra succotash and much more. (For details on growing many other vegetables and ...

The key ingredient for gumbo and a pickled favorite, okra, is easy to grow and makes a good mid-summer crop in the Kansas garden. Plant it where spring spinach and radishes have faded, in its own well ...

Varieties: Annie Oakley (dwarf), Cajun Delight, Emerald and Clemson Spineless. Planting months: March-July. Looking for a free mini puzzle? Play the USA TODAY Quick Cross now. Cold/heat tolerance: ...

Once you start picking okra, you have to keep up because it grows fast. Skip a day and the pods may already be too big and tough for cooking purposes. If you pick them at just the right time, when ...

LEICESTER, N.C. — It was a dewy morning when I joined Chris Smith, author of “The Whole Okra,” at the Utopian Seed Project’s experimental farm near Asheville, North Carolina. It wasn’t even 9 a.m. and ...

Okra is a polarizing vegetable. Some people wolf it down golden-fried, a plate at a time. Others wince and turn away at the mere thought of the slimy stuff. Either way, Houston gardeners should ...

Despite the intense heat of mid- to late-summer, there are delicious, heat-tolerant vegetables you can plant now to keep your garden productive. This month, we also turn an eye toward the vegetables ...

Q: I am really enjoying some pickled okra I received as a gift, and now I want to make some myself. What varieties of okra are best for pickling? A: There's nothing better than pickled okra, and the ...

OKRA: Native to tropical Africa, it never gets too hot for okra to thrive here. Direct seeded into the garden now, okra will come into production in about 50 days and produce until the weather cools ...