Thread: Okra in zone 4?
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Old June 16, 2015   #27
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Originally Posted by Zeedman View Post
It doesn't even take frost to kill okra... after several nights in the 40's, the plants begin to wilt & die.
The second year I planted okra, I was hyper excited, because one plant in the patch didn't succumb to the first hint of a fall frost... It succumbed the next night to approximately the same conditions.

Nevertheless, that plant produced a fruit, and I replanted the seeds. Last fall, I harvested okra the day I did the fall tilling of the fields on the 1st of November. Most of the okra had died from cold about 8 weeks earlier.

Sure seems like there is a lot of diversity within okra that hasn't been fully explored.
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