Okra a wonderful vegetable crop.

in #homesteading5 years ago

Okra is one of the highest cultivated and consumed vegetable in the developing world. It is an annual crop and can be cultivated twice a year depending on climatic patterns.

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Also this wonderful crop can cultivated either sole or inter-cropped with others like beans, soy beans, maize, coco-yams, etc depending on its purpose, be it for home consumption or for commercial purposes.

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For commercial purposes, the crop is then cultivated singly and has greatly contributed in arresting poverty among youths and raising their income levels especially as there is always a ready market.
As concerns home consumption, it consumed mostly when prepared with garri, rice, fufu, etc. As a means of preparation the okra after harvesting is thoroughly washed and sliced into small pieces which is later ground using a blending machine or locally by means of mortar and pestle. When the paste is ready, water is then added and stirred for a while before putting on fire to cook where egusi or groundnut is been added.

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Boiled meat or fish is then added afterwards as well as crayfish, salt and maggi to produce a nice taste and flavor.
Okra is highly nutritive and gardens of it can be done on the free spaces in our backyards or equally on waste tires or buckets.

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Once planted, it can be harvested over and over before it will later dry up. For home consumption, its cultivation does not require much space and always remember that '' farming will always be a continual miracle wrought by the hand of God, Benjamin Franklin''
As such crop harvested from your garden or farm are always worth satisfying.
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Very nice article about okra .. I thing I am going to try it the next days the way you described it ^^

Thanks @adalger, you will enjoy it.

Such beautiful plants! Thanks for sharing.

It has always been a pleasuring sharing ideas with such lovely, wonderful and beautiful people like you. Together we can farm for the future and it begins now.

Thanks for the post. I was surprised to see you describe it as an easy plant to grow, as it is one of the few I fail at. I was told that I must lightly sandpaper the seed, but that did not work for me either.

Also, your way of cooking the fingers is different - I never cut the okra, unless I'm adding them in slices within my omelette. Cooked in a tomato and onion sauce, in a stew for instance, I love the flavour as the okra bursts open within my mouth.

A good post - well done.

Really sir, it is very unique crop and very nice when prepared, glad to know you love it too.

When you have a taste of it, you will discover it worth cultivating.

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Waoh!! thanks for giving us this nice post about vegetables....in as much it's good for business selling them I believe you also love having them as part of you meals isn't it?

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Thanks @kingsleymond , it is indeed a nice vegetable.

We made curry out of Lady finger. Love this plant. :)

Good to know, it is really a wonderful plant.

So great yo see your country in this way we dont have this !

Yeah for sure @brittandjosie, it is mostly tropical but you will like it

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