Gretchen digging the potatoes she’s selling today at
Downtown Valdosta Farm Days.
Look at the roots on that thing!
Hundreds of pounds of potatoes: Continue reading
You can’t dig
just one.
Here’s how Gretchen
digs potatoes with a shovel:
Heavy, as in more than 40 pounds of potatoes:
Yes, that’s a bathroom scale; only thing we had for something that heavy.
She learned all this from Terry Davis. He and I planted those potatoes. Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 May 2011.
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First, hook some privet:
Then pull with tractor: Continue reading
Good thing I bought oil for the chain saw: Continue reading
We have lots of these, but not many with limbs like this so close to the ground. This one is in a cemetary with no close competitors, so it spread out more than up.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, 27 April 2011, in the Revolutionary War Cemetery in Louisville, Georgia.
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Brown Dog didn’t get bit, but Yellow Dog did. Continue reading
The yellow dog is right: I burned those trees! Before picture of one of them: Continue reading
Nope, not honeysuckle: that’s a vine; these azaleas grow on a bush.
These ones had not quite opened yet: Continue reading
Pinus palustris of various sizes.
We planted these trees four years ago.
This one is bolting up from grass stage.
Bottle brush stage (plus starting some branches): Continue reading
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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