I’m afraid the few ripe tomatoes and the okra ready to eat never made it to the house. Something ate them; I can’t say what, although it was on two legs.
We’re eating yellow squash daily.
Should get cucumbers big enough to pick now that they’ve been thoroughly watered.
And the okra is starting to come in. Continue reading
Update 2024-05-30: Blueberry Scacrecrow 2024-05-24.
Maybe the scarecrow will keep the critters off the okra and the yellow squash.
Also known as straightneck squash, the Abelmoschus esculentus is producing quite a bit.
The okra, Abelmoschus esculentus, hasn’t bloomed yet, but maybe it will soon.
Got a few more taters to dig, too, adding to the many we already dug.
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A common occurrence in the woods: a banana spider on my hat.
These golden orb-weavers, genus Nephila, weave webs many feet across between trees, often at human eye height.
I left this one on a nearby bush.
Here are a few vegetables from the garden that day. Continue reading
Tom H. Johnson Jr. and Mary Caroline Pindar wanted to see the garden at Okra Paradise Farms.
Abelmoschus esculentus, okra, lady’s fingers, gumbo, ngombo, bhindi, vendakkai, and many other names. Possibly from West Africa, or Ethiopia, or South Asia. Requires full sun and hot temperatures with good soil. Continue reading
Gretchen took this yellow squash and zucchini to
Wiregrass Farmers Market in Tifton, GA this morning,
along with fresh-plowed potatoes, rosemary, and of course heirloom corn grits.
That’s 9AM to noon, behind the Country Store at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture (Agrirama),
1392 Whiddon Mill Road, Tifton GA 31794.
Did you know zucchini is actually a fruit, even though it’s cooked and eaten as a vegetable? And the name is Italian, because the type we eat today was developed in Italy, even though like all squash its ancestors came from the Americas? More about Cucurbita pepo, also known as courgette or vegetable marrow, by Master Gardener Laurel Reader, Zucchini: A Treat in the Heat.
Market day doesn’t smell right without rosemary. Continue reading
Pork chop, squash, brocolli, all from within 100 miles, and corn and sweet potatoes from our field:
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2012-11-15.
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Zucca, okra, and sweet potatoes to Valdosta Farm Days this morning, 9AM to 1PM (and pumpkins and peppers), down at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse, Central Avenue between Patterson and Ashley.
Where did she get those zucca?
The dogs helped.
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 September 2012.
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More than twice as wide as my foot:
More than twice as wide as my foot
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 15 July 2012.
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