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Okra - how many plants?
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Posted by paradisi Sunshine Coast (My Page) on Wed, Sep 7, 05 at 0:42
| It's time to try growing and hopefully eating Okra
Can someone please give me an idea of how productive the plants are?
Will one plant provide enough for an occassional meal for two?
Or should I plant the whole packet of seeds?
The variety I got are Lady's Fingers
thanks for your help |
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RE: Okra - how many plants?
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| In my experience you need at least 6 plants to get a sufficient quantity of pods at any one time. I had 4 plants last summer and that was not nearly enough, so 6 should be about right. If you run out of seed, I can send you some. I've lots to spare because I didn't pick some pods early enough and they became to big for cooking. Mine is Lady's Fingers too. Cheers Rosewater. |
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There are some Sudanese refugees studying agriculture at our TAFE, they've planted half a paddock with okra & plan to plant the other half with sweet potato.
They've been picking vegetables from our organic garden (there's plenty to spare) so I'm sure I can help myself to some of their okra and shan't have to worry about growing it! |
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| I am growing some too. I haven't planted my seeds yet. I haven't tasted it. Do you have any suggestions on how you eat them? Do you go as far as pickling them? |
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| Okra are great in curries, vegetable or otherwise. I believe they can be incorporated into pickles but I've never tried that. |
RE: Okra - how many plants?
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| Very thinly sliced - so that you have lots of little stars - deep-fried. Very nice. :) Crispy, crunchy, more-ish. |
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