Okra tastes like a cross between zucchini and asparagus. Ideally, its fruits should be slightly unripe.
When to plant okra
Okra is usually sown in early April. It is better to sow seeds for seedlings in separate cups of 1-2 pieces, since the root of okra is slightly branched, taproot.
Okra can be grown in seedlings (it can be sown with seeds directly into the ground only in the southernmost sunny and warm regions). Seeds for seedlings are sown in separate containers around the end of May / mid-April - at least 35-50 days must pass before being transferred to the ground.
Watering
It is also important to properly water okra, as it does not like drought and excessive moisture. Here you have to try to guess. Therefore, in the heat it is watered two to three times a week.
The collected fruits should be eaten immediately or frozen, because, after lying down for one or two days, they become coarse and become inedible.
Fertilizer
Okra is fed with a combined mineral fertilizer, such as nitrophoska. Give no more than 2 tablespoons per bucket of water; during the fruiting period, they are fed with potassium nitrate (in the same dose). Already two months after germination, early maturing varieties of okra bloom, and after another five days they begin to harvest fruits.
