How to grow okra seeds?

Okra is a vegetable, flowering May-September, yellow flowers, capsule tube-shaped steeple, spherical seeds, 4-5 mm in diameter. Okra can be sown with seeds, so how to plant okra seeds?

First, how to plant okra seeds?

Firstly, the okra seeds were soaked for 12 hours, and then germinated under the condition of 25-30 ℃. About 24 hours later, the seeds began to sprout and were sown in the soil when 60% of the seeds were "broken". Water first, water before sowing, and cover 2 cm of soil after sowing. Keep the temperature around 25 ℃ and the sunflower seeds will germinate in about 4-5 days.

When will okra seeds be planted?

Okra seeds are generally sown in spring and are best sown after the final frost and when the ground temperature is above 15 ℃. Seeds can be sowed in southern China after February, in the north in the first and middle of May, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in early April and in coastal areas in late April. If sown in a greenhouse, it can be sown all the year round.

Can okra seeds be eaten?

Okra seeds are edible. Okra seeds are part of okra, and like eggplant seeds, they are edible before they grow old. As long as it is fresh and tender okra, the okra seeds inside can be eaten directly, but the old autumn sunflower seeds are not recommended to eat, and the taste is poor.

Okra seeds are rich in vitamins, especially antioxidant vitamins An and C, which can help remove free radicals, increase skin activity and slow down aging. Moreover, sunflower seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can reduce blood lipids and cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis, and thus prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.