As most of us are either planting or have already planted our warm-season vegetables, if you haven’t used all your space up yet and would like an easy plant to grow that is a big producer, give okra a ...

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 ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. If you see shoot terminals, including stems, leaves, and flowers, on your apple tree that appear as if they have been torched, it is a sign of ...

TUPELO — Surrounded by peppers, tomatoes, rosemary and raspberries in a garden bed beside their home, a Tupelo couple's 16-foot okra plant may be a world record contender. Weylon and Tonja Michael, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The sky is the limit, or so it seems. A towering okra plant in West Mobile knows no bounds. Still growing strong, up some three feet in just the last month. Standing tall in ...