Category Archives: Gardening

Blooming okra

We don’t call it Okra Paradise Farms for nothing:

Picking 10-20 pounds of okra a day:


Pictures of Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman
picking okra at Okra Paradise Farms
by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 July 2011.

It’s taller than it was three weeks ago. Don’t need to stoop as much, but more times. Tasty!

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Is there zucca in there?

Italian pumpkin-like squash:

Looks like a watermelon, tastes like a pumpkin. Big plant, no vegetable yet. Oddly thriving in drought conditions.

Pictures of Gretchen Quarterman inspecting zucca at Okra Paradise Farms by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2011.

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