Dug out of its winter cocoon, with tractor blade and hoe. Then planted by hand in rows made by the planter, later covered with dirt by tractor cultivator. Later this year: more cane syrup.
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Wild Black Cherry blooms 2022-03-17
Pomegranate flowers 2021-05-16
Maybe we’ll get some pomegranates to eat this year.
I think we got this plant from Dennis and Dottie Price.
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Native wild azaleas 2021-04-12
These were many places in the woods, with an acre of them here: native wild azaleas, Rhododendron canescens.
Nellie, native wild azaleas, Gretchen
No, not honeysuckle. That’s a vine. These are a bush. Continue reading
Mushrooms 2021-01-02
Plants escaped 2020-12-13
Gretchen left these plants locked inside, but while she wasn’t looking they escaped.
They’ll have to go back inside tomorrow; freeze predicted. Continue reading
Picking wild black cherries 2020-06-21
We don’t have a cherry picker, but we do have a ladder and a roof.
Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries
Later, I didn’t take a picture as I was on the ladder picking behind my head.
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Garden mowed 2020-06-21
You can almost see it’s a garden, after weeks of weeding and Gretchen had just finished mowing between the rows.
After weeks of weeding and mowing
Visible, left to right: cucumber, yellow squash, okra, eggplant, tomato, corn (maize).
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Gretchen finished weeding tomatoes 2020-06-03
Gretchen finished weeding the tomatoes.
Well, those tomatoes. She already weeded the other ones.
And I found those cucumbers in the okra.
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