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OKRA

OKRA

(30 varieties to choose from)

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Plant after the soil is warm, usually when melons are planted.  Do not plant in cold soil.  Pick the pods when they are about as long as your little finger for top quality.  Height of plant depends upon how often you pick the okra.  The more you pick it the taller it grows.  Packets will contain 30 to 50 seeds (more on some varieties) which should plant a 25 foot row. UPDATED FOR

2024

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African

African - 80 days - Pods get large but still remain tender for eating.  Pods have a slight red tint.   Pkt. $1.50

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Alabama Red

Alabama Red-75 days- medium height plants, producing  numerous 4 inch fat pods with a reddish tint.  Pkt. $2.00 Certified Organic Seed

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Beck’s Big Buck

Beck’s Big Buck-65 days- Tall plants, short fat ribbed pods. Texas heirloom. Pkt. $2.50 Certified Organic Seed

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Burgundy

Burgundy -  80 days- Medium height with reddish plants with dark burgundy red pods.  Plants are very attractive and work well as a border plant.  Pkt. $2.00 Certified Organic Seed

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Burmese

Burmese-  70 days- very productive off colored light green pods, a very heavy producer. Pkt. $1.50 Certified Organic Seed

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Cherokee Long Pod

Cherokee Long Pod - 80 days - 6 foot plants, produce long (to 15 inch) pods of light green color.  Pkt. $1.50  Certified Organic Seed 

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Clemson Spineless

Clemson Spineless -  70 days- Nice plants with heavy yields of green  pods.  Pkt. $1.50

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Cowhorn

Cowhorn- 80 days - Long, tender green pods on 4 to 5 foot plants.  A southern heirloom.  Pkt. $3.00 Certified Organic Seed Limit 1 packet

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Dwarf Lee 

Dwarf Lee - 55 days - Short plants, less than 3 feet tall, producing a good amount of 6 to 7 inch tapered green pods with slight ridges.   Pkt.   $3.00 Certified Organic Seed Limit 1 packet

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Emerald

Emerald- 60 days- Spineless, velvet type with tall plants, round, smooth, dark green 7 to 9 inch green pods.  High quality and yields well (even in the North).  Pkt. $2.00

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Evertender

Evertender- 65 days- Not much foliage, but excellent and tender green pods even up to 5 inches long.  Plants end up getting about 6 feet tall here at season’s end.  Pkt. $3.00  Certified Organic Seed

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Gold Coast

Gold Coast- 70days- Developed in Louisiana in 1960 , light green spineless type  Pkt. $3.00 

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Granny Franklin 

Granny Franklin - 80 days -  Heirloom from Alabama, heavy yields of green pods, excellent for frying. ( 25 seeds)  Pkt. $3.00  Certified Organic Seed  Limit 1 packet

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James Hopper

James Hopper- 70 days- Medium height plants that produce tasty, 3 to 5 inch large green pods.  Pkt. $2.50

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Jing Orange 

Jing Orange  - 85 days - Plants are a beautiful orange shade getting 6 feet tall.  Pods are reddish, productive, unique color.       Pkt. $2.00 Certified Organic Seed

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Louisiana 16 Inch Long Pod

Louisiana 16 Inch Long Pod- 75 days- plants get tall, pods can get very long and still stay tender. Pkt. $2.50 UNAVAILABLE FOR 2023

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Louisiana Short

Louisiana Short- 85 days- Rather late, but the plants are very stocky and have the shorter, fat green pods.  Plants tend to branch some and yield until a hard frost. This variety was sent to us by the late Darrell Merrill in Oklahoma where it was an heirloom passed on to him.  Pkt. $1.50  Certified Organic Seed 

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Mammoth

Mammoth - 65 days - 6 to 8 foot tall plants which are an intense green color. Okra pods are very large and fat  pale green in color with some reddish tint.  Pkt. $1.50  Certified Organic Seed

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My Joanie

My Joanie- 85 days - A late one, but a great one.  Beautiful pinkish tint to the pods.  An heirloom sent from a customer in Mississippi.  Pkt. $2.00  Certified Organic

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Pentagreen

Pentagreen- 70 days- Short plants produce high yields of long, thin green pods.  Does well in cooler growing conditions Pkt. (25 seeds) $3.00  Certified Organic 

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Perkins Dwarf

Perkins Dwarf- 65 days-  plants produce  up to 9 inch pods that retain edibility for a good length of time. Pkt. $1.50

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Red 

Red - 80 days - Somewhat variable in pod type, but extremely high yielding.  Plants are continuous producers of 4 to 6 inch pods of a deep red color.  Much more productive than Burgundy.   We had a huge crop, plants nearly broke under the  weight of the  ripening pods.  Pkt. $2.25 Certified Organic Seed 

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Red River

Red River- 75 days- 8 foot, very tall plants producing red pods on a red stalk.  Very productive. Pkt. $2.00 Certified Organic Seed

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Red Velvet

Red Velvet- 60 days- 3 foot plants producing red pods on a reddish stalk.  Very productive. Pkt. $2.00 Certified Organic Seed C

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Saravejo Bamija

Saravejo Bamija- 75 days- Spiney, 5 foot plants, 3 to 4 inch pods, red ribs, good flavor, very productive.  Pkt. $1.50  Certified Organic Seed

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Silver Queen

Silver Queen - 80 days - Plants get up to 6 feet tall.  This variety went wild in 2016 and the plants were huge and had many pods up to frost. Pods are whitish green in color.  Pkt. $2.00  Certified Organic Seed

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Star of David

Star of David- 75 days- Very broad six sided green pods.  Use when young for best quality.  Superb for fried okra.  Pkt. $1.50  Certified Organic Seed

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Stewarts Zeebest

Stewarts Zeebest-  65 days- Louisiana Heirloom , plants get up to 7 feet tall and produce lots of  ribless pods that maintain edibility up to  7 inches.  PKT. ( 25 seeds) $3.00 Certified Organic Seed UNAVAILABLE IN 2024

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Texas Longhorn

Texas Longhorn - 85 days - Texas heirloom producing a good yield of light green pods. 

Certified Organic  Seed Pkt. $3.00 Limit 1

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White Velvet 

White Velvet - 85 days - Cream colored pods.  Old fashioned variety.   Pkt. $2.50

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