Shopping bag from the garden:
Category Archives: Okra Paradise Farms
Fourth of July Beaver Dam Expeditions
The pond was too dam high,
and the beavers were girdling trees far out from the usual shore,
so we set sail to pipe the beaver dam.
Dogs waiting for us to get the boat to the deep water:
Lily:
Continue readingHawk at the pond
Movie: Red shouldered hawk (6.8M):
Picture and video by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 July 2013.
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Softball league, or perfect cucumber?
Grape vines in the woods
Vines:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 July 2013.
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Acorn squash with brown sugar and butter
Zucchini: make fritters or pickles
Purple okra
Is this why they call them lady fingers?
Maybe eat them raw, or cook them tonight; video:
Continue readingFirst watermelon of the season
Okra purple, red, and green, and a beet
Picked some more purple okra today, plus a beet, and plenty of green okra. Here are some of those compared with an orange okra. The purple okra on the left is the one from yesterday’s color wheel; it was picked smaller than these today, and looks almost black with some green. The ones today look more purple, somewhere between beet and fuschia; maybe red violet. The orange okra (same one from yesterday) looks red-orange or maroon with a bit of green. And the green okra looks, well, green.
Flash:
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