Okra Abelmoschus esculentus

How to sow okra: Direct seed indoors or outside

Sun requirement for okra: Plant in Full Sun

Okra has been planted 9 times by Growstuff members.

Okra is a frost-tender annual grown for it's edible seed pods and, less commonly, it's leaves and stems. Plants can be green or red.

Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Height

250cm

Spread

90cm

Row Spacing

30cm

Companions

black-eyed pea

Photos

Okra crops

Photo by Светлана Царахова via iNaturalist (Copyright Светлана Царахова)

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Photo by Светлана Царахова via iNaturalist (Copyright Светлана Царахова)

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Photo by sapnahayes via iNaturalist (Copyright sapnahayes)

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Sunniness

Planted from

Varieties

Bonnie Green Okra Heirloom Clemson Spineless

Crop Map

Only plantings by members who have set their locations are shown on this map.

What people are saying about okra

This weekend I had two full days to really focus on the yard, and I made the most of it. With the intermittent help of several others over the course of the weekend, I got both easement planter boxes filled with compost and soil, cleaned up and weeded the alley, got the stump pulled from the coni…

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Transplant day!

by inkstone,

I originally wanted to do this yesterday but it rained in the morning so that kinda put a damper on things.

So I did it all today instead! A bunch of the seeds I wintersowed in the milk jugs and soda bottles were getting crowded so it was time to move them to their bigger (permanent) container…