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Like other plants, okras benefit from companion planting. These 8 herbs and vegetables have a mutually beneficial relationship with okra when grown nearby.

Okra makes a great crop to follow cool-season vegetables, such as onions, turnips or broccoli, when they are harvested and the bed space becomes available in April or May.

OKRA: You can't really have a garden in the South without okra. Native to tropical Africa, it never gets too hot for okra to thrive here. Plant seeds now into well-prepared beds, spacing the seeds ...

Pick the pods as soon as they are full-size on the plant. This tells the plant to make some more. If you don't harvest regularly then the plant will halt production. Okra is the summer king of crops.

Plants that are spaced 36 or 48 inches apart should grow wider, shorter and produce more pods. During recent years in a local organic garden, an okra plant grew more than 19 feet tall and was bent ...

If there is any vegetable synonymous with the Lowcountry and Charleston, it’s okra. In fact, one of the city’s (and the United States’) oldest cookbooks — The Carolina Housewife, written ...

Okra’s health benefits have been widely studied. The vegetable contains antioxidants, flavonoids, and phenolic acids, which help reduce intestinal inflammation and support digestive health.

Influencers on social media tout the benefits of okra-infused water for glucose control. But experts are skeptical — at best.

Water frequently, and when the seeds come up, thin the seedlings to about 12 inches apart. Okra is in the same plant family as the hibiscus and so makes lovely flowers, like these. file photo ...