Tall trees and shrubs can overshadow single story homes and make small yards feel crowded and overwhelming. However, there are plenty of small or dwarf plants that have all the beauty of their taller ...

Once you start picking okra, you have to keep up because it grows fast. Skip a day and the pods may already be too big and tough for cooking purposes. If you pick them at just the right time, when ...

LEICESTER, N.C. — It was a dewy morning when I joined Chris Smith, author of “The Whole Okra,” at the Utopian Seed Project’s experimental farm near Asheville, North Carolina. It wasn’t even 9 a.m. and ...

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 ...

Growing okra in your home vegetable garden can provide a wealth of pods to use in the kitchen. Indeed, the plants are so prolific that you may have more pods than you can cook. If you leave some on ...