The garden is starting to produce vegetables.
![[Potatos, eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash, green chili peppers]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-05--vegetables/20250505_193106.jpg)
Potatos, eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash, green chili peppers
-jsq
Tag Archives: zucchini
Potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, and rosemary
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.
Cutting rosemary
Market day doesn’t smell right without rosemary. Continue reading
Roundup and gluten sensitivity
Likely effects of dousing 90+% of all corn, soybeans, peanuts, and cotton grown in Georgia (and elsewhere) in Roundup and other toxic chemicals, often drifting onto other people’s land, schools, shops, and churches. It’s not that hard to grow the same crops without those poisons and without the toxic seeds that require them; not that hard and more profitable.
Yes, I know Jeffrey M. Smith is not a biological scientist or medical doctor. But many of the sources he cites are.
Posted by MyScienceAcademy 29 November 2013, GMOs linked to gluten disorders plaguing 18 million Americans – report
The IRT release also indicated that glyphosate, a weed killer sold under the brand name ‘Roundup’ was also found to have a negative effect on intestinal bacteria. GMO crops contain high levels of the toxin at harvest.
“Even with minimal exposure, glyphosate can significantly reduce the population of beneficial gut bacteria and promote the overgrowth of harmful strains,” the report found.
Continue reading
Zucchini: make fritters or pickles
Zucchini
This will be tasty soon:
Picture by John S. Quarterman, Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 6 October 2011.
-jsq
Zucchini Season!
This is just the start:
Picture of Gretchen with zucchini of various sizes by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 June 2010.
Planting and Sprouting in the Garden
One Day’s Pickings
Must remember to go to the garden every day; this is what happens with one day skipped. Corn, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, yellow squash, tomato, buttercup, butternut, and eggplant. 34 pounds.
The zucchini are playing out; most of these we wouldn’t have bothered picking a week ago. The tomato, corn, and watermelon are new this picking.
Zucchini
Ten pounds of zucchini a day, plus yellow squash, butternut, buttercup, cucumber, radishes and beets.