Grow, Harvest & Home Cooked Red Okra Or Red Ladies Fingers.

On my previous trip to Cameron Highlands I bought a packet of red okra or red ladies fingers seeds. I have not seen the seeds being sold in the lowland. I have grown ornamental okra, the long okra, the normal size okra, and now red okra plants.

Red okra seedlings on the left and cucumber seedlings on the right.

I transferred the seedlings into bigger pots.

 For bigger pots, I grow 2 okra plants.

 For red okras, the leaves have red veins, the stems and stalks are also red.

 Red buds appearing on the plants.

 The first flower

 Now waiting for the first okra to form after the bud has flowered.

Red okra buds

Red Okra flowers

 The first okra and more bud are flowering.

Red okras

Found these raindrops hanging on an okra stalk one morning.

 Waiting to harvest these red okras.

 Top left - harvested my first okra together with the winged beans.

Bottom right - harvest 1 purple brinjal, 1 red okra and 2 winged beans

The black winged bean is for seeds.

 More red okras harvest together with 1 French bean.

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One of my home cooked dinner using my red okras.

 Deep fried a piece of fish with spicy curry batter.

 Cooked a plate of mixed vegetables consisting of  fresh mushrooms, prawns, home grown French bean, home grown chilies, and home grown red okras. The red okras turned to light green when cooked as you can see in the above picture.

 Then he prayed again, this time that it would rain,

and down it poured, and the grass turned green

and the gardens began to grow again.

(James 5:18, The Living Bible-TLB)