Mark your calendars now with two important dates.
SE GA Growing Local will be held
Nov. 8 at the Tattnall County High School in Reidsville. A Growing Local conference will be held
Jan. 24 at Pine Grove School near Valdosta. Gretchen Quarterman is lead organizer for that.
Category Archives: Garden
Yes, we can grow citrus in Georgia! –Marj Schneider
Update 2 Feb 2014: Citrus Resources.
At South Georgia Growing Local 2014:
Learn about varieties that do best in our climate, and how to plant and nurture your trees. We will discuss winter protection, fertilizing, and challenges with citrus. You’ll leave with resources for buying trees and learning more.
Bess T. Chappas wrote and took this picture for SavannahNow 24 September 2008,
Tropical garden in suburbia,
Continue readingTwenty citrus trees are scattered around the yard, including lemon, blood orange, tangelo, cara-cara orange, lime, grapefruit, tangerine and mandarin. A pumello plant, a citrus variety from Southeast Asia, has a fruit the size of a basketball. Papaya and guava plants grow tall against the back of the house. Pineapple and coffee plants grow in the ground and in large pots.
Fuzzy caterpillar
Caterpillar, okra, and flower
Okra in the basket with Gretchen
The next Valdosta Farm Days is 17 August 2013:
Our okra is available at Carter’s, and we’ve been known to deliver. Purple and green okra:
Continue readingOkra in the morning dew
Okra with dew:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2013-07-06.
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Okra and pumpkin
Purple okra, orange okra, and pumpkin:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 July 2013.
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Filthy Yellow Dog is not amused
Nope, Yellow Dog was not impressed by a shopping bag full of lunch from the garden.
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes
County, Georgia, 2013-07-03.
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