COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - Whether you enjoy okra fried, boiled or pickled, the plant has become a Southern staple in many households. One gardener in Columbia is watching one particular okra plant ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Tonight, a world record could be broken right here on the Gulf Coast. Planting okra in their home garden started as a new hobby for Mobile residents Terry and Candace Stevens, ...

TUPELO — Surrounded by peppers, tomatoes, rosemary and raspberries in a garden bed beside their home, a Tupelo couple's 16-foot okra plant may be a world record contender. Weylon and Tonja Michael, ...

Among the plants beloved in the south of the United States, okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) is a crowd favorite. Because okra loves hot and sunny summers, it's most commonly grown in the deep south, but ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The sky is the limit, or so it seems. A towering okra plant in West Mobile knows no bounds. Still growing strong, up some three feet in just the last month. Standing tall in ...

Watch 150 days of an okra plant, often known as lady's fingers, growing from a seed till harvesting pods and seeds. We chose ...

California farmers, unrivaled in crop diversity, famously cultivate some 400 agricultural commodities. Certain crops such as almonds and avocados have become icons of the Golden State. But further ...

NEWPORT, N.C. (WNCT) — For one Newport woman, what started as simply gardening turned into a quest to conquer a world record. Vicki Swindell may be the new title holder of the world’s tallest okra ...

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 ...

NEWPORT, N.C. (WITN) - While it’s not a magic beanstalk, the okra plant off Highway 24 in Newport is well over 17 feet tall and continues to get taller. Organic gardener Vicki Swindell’s massive okra ...

The last of the spring cool fronts make their way through our area in early May, so the intense heat of summer is right around the corner. Warm-season vegetables planted in late February, March and ...