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  • Man grows 17 foot okra plant( Mitchell County, GA )

    10/22/2005 9:09:26 AM PDT · by devane617 · 37 replies · 1,106+ views
    WALB TV 10 - Albany, GA ^ | 10/22/2005 | Elaine Armstrong
    October 21, 2005 Mitchell County- Joe Henry has worked in agriculture for decades. "I've been a pecan shaker, and then I've been a cotton picker, and then I've been a peanut shaker, and I've been a 'bacco cropper." He even grows a few vegetables in his yard from time to time, but never anything as special as his super-tall okra. "I didn't do nothing special to the okra, nothing but plant it, put a little fertilizer to it, come out every once in a while and look at it," Henry says. The 80 year old thought he'd just plant a...