How Do You Preserve Seeds From Okra?
Okra came to America with the people that arrived from Africa. It was a staple food from their homeland. The flavor is spectacular and is used in the flavorful Cajun and Creole cooking of the south. There are many uses for the seeds and they are very nutrient packed. You can make sure that you have seeds from an especially good crop this year for the next planting season by saving some of the seeds. Read on to learn more. Allow some of the pods that are growing on your plants to mature. This doesn’t take long in most cases because this plant grows well and fast and is very hearty. You will be harvesting pods for eating just about every day because of the rapid growth. Use a knife to cut the pods from the stalk once the pods have matured, These pods will be very fibrous and woody if used for food, but you can lay them out to dry in the sun or in a warm basement. Let the pods to dry for another week or so then test them to see if they are dry enough to shell like a bean pod. The seeds in
