This includes Chinese okra, an Asian variety of squash that is similar to zucchini. Unrelated to actual okra (Abelmoschus esculentus), but thus far it lacks a better common name in the Americas. A diet rich in fresh produce provides your body with nutrients that can enhance your health and prevent disease. What we do know is that this is a truly worthwhile garden vegetable. If this is a specific culitivar, we don't know it. Our original seed stock was gifted to us. Only marginally dual-purpose in that respect. Mature fruits do develop typical luffa-like properties, but they aren't as cohesive or easy to clean as the common Luffa aegyptiaca. But oh, so tasty My in-laws call it turai, which is what I called it before I.
Not strictly Chinese, this species is common to several diverse cuisines of South and Eastern Asia. would still be a crazy looking vegetable. Flesh is tender but holds up well to cooking.
#Chinese okra skin#
Thoroughly remove the the rough skin before cooking. Extrafloral nectaries attract beneficial insects.įor best eating quality, harvest when young and green. The flowers attract bumble bees, butterflies and moths. It never occured to us that a lowly luffa could waft such a beautiful fragrance. Only about 26 percent of Americans regularly eat three or more servings of vegetables a day, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009. It was the most magical of garden mysteries, when for several evenings in early summer we could not pinpoint where the perfume was coming from. Possibly the most exciting and unexpected aspect of these plants is the flowers, which are a luminous yellow and sweetly fragrant, especially at night. These plants will be ideal for arbors and arched cattle panels. The plants quickly reached the top of a 12' trellis in our garden, and ultimately found their way onto the neighboring fence and adjacent trellises. Large ridged fruits are set in abundance on long healthy climbing vines. Delectable when harvested young, the peeled flesh adds a wonderful sweet flavor to curries and stir-fries. We've grown “edible" luffa varieties before and been unimpressed, but this selection of Luffa acutangula is really delicious. A photo of that record Heavy Hitter plant can be found on page one of the Heavy Hitter Okra thread on the green country seed savers website.One of the most pleasant surprises of 2020. (Thank you though, for the glowing recommendation). Get Turia / Chinese Okra and Asian Vegetables delivered to your doorstep via London Grocery next day.
This means that his seeds have the ‘potential’ of producing another world record of that magnitude, but probably shouldn’t be expected to happen on a daily basis. Buy Turia / Chinese Okra online at top quality.
Kind of like the World’s Record Tomato of the Domingo variety, which was grown by Dan Sutherland in 2018. While it can be available year-round, Chinese okra is most plentiful during the summer. It was well on its way to 650 when it was killed. Like many vegetables and fruits, Chinese okra is high in vitamins like A and C, certain minerals like calcium, and, of course, has lots of fiber. That one plant had 65 branches, each branch bearing pods, each branch is capable of bearing ten pods on average, so there was a potential for pod production in the 650 range, except for an early frost that year clipped that plant in its prime, so we will never know what it was truly capable of. Kight is referring to was my personal best record, back in 2011. Actually, that harvest of 44 pods in one day only happened once, but Heavy Hitter does average over 100 pods per season, per plant, and often hits in the 250 pod range. I’ve got to add a slight retraction of sorts to the post above.
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