The okra is cooked in 3 to 5 minutes. When the color of the okra gradually becomes darker, it can be removed from the pot, otherwise the okra will be old. When cooking okra, first wash the whole okra root and soak it in lightly salted water for about 10 minutes, you can cook it without cutting off the root of okra. When cooking okra, boil the water in the pot and add a little salt before adding the okra, stirring constantly after the pot is placed.

How to grow okra

There are generally two different ways to produce okra for sowing time, the 1st being seeds for direct seeding and the 2nd being nursery seedlings for transplanting. Utilizing local seeds mainly living in the south until the end of the late frost, the temperature of the ground can reach 15 degrees seed sowing.

Using the general way will be in mid-March seedlings begin to transplant seedlings to grow, the seedbed temperature should be regulated between 25-28 degrees, generally 4 to 5 days until after the emergence of seedlings after 30-40 days to grow to 3-4 leaves, and then transplanted with soil.

(1) okra seedlings we need to water once a week, if it is the rainy season, can be reduced by watering, but also pay attention to drainage, and timely learning to do a good job of mid-tillage weeding management.

(2) weakened seedlings usually need to be removed, leaving a young seedling, each hole of the guarantee. It can be carried out in 2 to 3 industries. Usually end inter-seedling before 3-4 leaves.

(3) when the okra plant grows to a height of about 50 cm, the true leaves 7-9 pieces we will appear to begin to study the results, this problem when the enterprise also need to chase the application of a heavy fertilizer, per acre of composite fertilizer 50-60 pounds or so, so that one of the more some of the benefits of the students to improve its yield.