These banana trees are only a few years old, but they’re making bananas.
![[Gretchen, Bananas, and dogs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/many.jpg)
Plus a pack of four dogs!
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![[Gretchen and the banana bloom]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-09-14--bananas/20200914_084954.jpg)
Pack of Dogs 2020-08-31
Leash training day.
![[Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-08-31--pack-of-dogs/both.jpg)
Honeybun and Nervous Nellie on their food deck, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog
Nervous Nellie is also known as the Jackal, because she looks like one, and loves to skulk around and bark. She barks less as times goes on.
Oh, yeah: that’s Gretchen.
-jsq
Okra, Tomatoes 2020-07-15
Two colors of okra.
![[Okra, green and red]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-07-15--tomatoes-okra/20200715_152027.jpg)
More every day, here at Okra Paradise Farms, halfway between Atlanta and Orlando and all the way to paradise.
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And some tomatoes, but those are all picked out now. I blanched and froze some, and ate the rest. Continue reading
Green grapes 2020-06-29
They still look about that green, almost a month later:
![[Green Grapes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-29-grapes-corn-wasps/20200629_094033.jpg)
But at least there are enough of them this year we may get some before the raccoons eat them all.
-jsq
Corn wasps 2020-06-29
Good thing I looked before walking into the corn:
![[Wasps on corn leaf]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-29-grapes-corn-wasps/20200629_094437.jpg)
Those wasps seemed quite at home on that corn leaf. Continue reading
Small bird nest at pond 2020-06-14
What kind of bird makes these small nests?
![[Bigger than a hummingbird nest]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_190246.jpg)
Bigger than a hummingbird nest
They’re too big to be hummingbird nests.
![[Another nest, near the pond]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_190636.jpg)
Gretchen spotted them, one in the woods, the other at the pond.
-jsq
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]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-21--gretchen-cherries-glass-house/20200621_092152.jpg)
Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries
Later, I didn’t take a picture as I was on the ladder picking behind my head.
-jsq
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]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-21--garden-mowed/20200621_104105.jpg)
After weeks of weeding and mowing
Visible, left to right: cucumber, yellow squash, okra, eggplant, tomato, corn (maize).
-jsq
Gretchen and Yellow Dog 2020-06-18
At going on 13 years old, Yellow Dog is an octogenarian in human years, with arthritis to show for it.
![[Yellow Dog and Gretchen]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-18--gretchen-yellow-dog/20200618_081514.jpg)
Brown Dog, who is the same age, was probably sleeping somewhere.
-jsq
Brown Dog in boat in pond 2020-06-14
Brown Dog likes boats.
![[Brown Dog and Gretchen with halo]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_194527.jpg)
Brown Dog and Gretchen with halo
Especially this old flatboat. Continue reading