Purple okra, orange okra, and pumpkin:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 July 2013.
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Picked some more purple okra today, plus a beet, and plenty of green okra. Here are some of those compared with an orange okra. The purple okra on the left is the one from yesterday’s color wheel; it was picked smaller than these today, and looks almost black with some green. The ones today look more purple, somewhere between beet and fuschia; maybe red violet. The orange okra (same one from yesterday) looks red-orange or maroon with a bit of green. And the green okra looks, well, green.
Flash:
Continue readingMore orange okra coming along:
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2013-06-27.
Soon we’ll compare to the purple okra.
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This is the same orange okra pod seen picked a couple days later:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 June 2013.
We’re still waiting for more to get ready. Picking plenty of green okra meanwhile.
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