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Picking Okra
We don’t call it Okra Paradise Farms for nothing:
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Yellow squash
Hidden in the leaves:
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Is there zucca in there?
Italian pumpkin-like squash:
Looks like a watermelon, tastes like a pumpkin. Big plant, no vegetable yet. Oddly thriving in drought conditions.
Pictures of Gretchen Quarterman inspecting zucca at Okra Paradise Farms by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2011.
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Watermelons not quite ripe
Here’s one:
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Picking Cucumbers
Find them:
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Hawks
One way to keep the field rodents down is with a hawk:
Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis,
Video by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 June 2011.
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Here’s a video of it flying:
Video by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 June 2011.
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Peanuts
Here’s one row:
Picture by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 June 2011.
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Picking Cucumbers
Gretchen’s littering cucumbers:
She left them there and I had to pick them up! Later we ate them.
Picture by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 15 June 2011.
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Picking Cucumbers
Gretchen’s littering cucumbers:
She left them there and I had to pick them up! Later we ate them.
Picture by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 15 June 2011.
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Bottling dishwasher
How to contain bottling spills:
This idea owed to Garner.
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