Check out this Beautiful vegetable from my uncle garden

It interests me to introduce this amazingly beautiful vegetable plant to you, my friends. Because of the beauty of this plant, people who are not conversant with it, may think it to be some kind of ornamental plants, but no, it's indeed a vegetable plant, and a very nutritious one at that. After getting complete information from my uncle I want to brief about this plant. Hope so it's benicial for you.

It is called the Okra plant,in local language it's called ladyfinger (Bhindi) the pods of which is very rich in many essential vitamins and other important nutrients. Okra is an important vegetable in pakistan and other countries of the world where it is cultivated for it's highly muscilaginous pods. These pods are harvested before maturity, when they have reached certain sizes, depending on the variety of okra in question, and are either used fresh or processed into dry forms which can keep for several months.
Weeding may be required at 2-3 weeks after sowing to avoid unnecessary competition from weeds.

Short cultivar that matures early, (about 40 days after sowing), but the bigger cultivars may take up to 3 months. But of course, the larger ones yields more!

After flowering, the immature pods are ready for harvest. It important to know the exact time to harvest, because, the more mature the pods gets, the more fibrous they become, making them unpalatable. Normally, harvesting is done every 3-4 days.

The freshly harvested pods may either be chopped or crushed and used immediately to prepare soup or they can be sliced and sun-dried, as a way of preservation. When it is fully dried, it can then be milled into powder and used whenever it is needed.

This method is particularly useful during the dry season, when fresh okra is limited supply.

Knowing how to grow your own veggies is very important these days, because it affords you the opportunity of being sure of what you are eating, and I'm sure you know very well that healthy eating is the father of healthy living. May you be healthy all your life.

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