So, I was given an Okra pod by a neighbor. Never imagined the seeds would be viable, or grow, but they have. Having never grown nor bought Okra in the store even, I had no idea at what stage they should be harvested. So I go to youtube and most say to harvest at what looks about 5 inches. So I go out to the garden and I find some that size, some smaller and some larger. I take a couple of each. Below are pictures of the process.
There is no rhyme or reason for tenderness of the vegetable (?). Some of the little ones were very hard to slice, where as some of the larger the knife just went through so easy and vice versa. All I know is eating a couple of them, well, if you had taken a bite of a #2 pencil and giving it about 3 chews, what would have been in your mouth is what a couple of these felt like! My wet n dry needs work. Pretty sure these thing are only good for Gumbo (and it won't be Gumbo season for 4 months)...I cant imagine they freeze well, but that will be next experiment.