The next Valdosta Farm Days is 17 August 2013:
Our okra is available at Carter’s, and we’ve been known to deliver. Purple and green okra:
Continue readingThe next Valdosta Farm Days is 17 August 2013:
Our okra is available at Carter’s, and we’ve been known to deliver. Purple and green okra:
Continue readingIs this why they call them lady fingers?
Maybe eat them raw, or cook them tonight; video:
Continue readingPicked 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 readingIt turns out that okra pod from Monday was actually a stray green okra, not purple at all. But this, this is a purple okra. And another….
Three, Four, Five: Continue reading
Update: That was actually a green okra. Here’s
a real purple okra
and here are purple, orange, and green compared.
A purple okra!
Just you wait, orange okra,
in a day or so we’ll see who’s purple.
Purple okra flower:
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