This is the same zucca that was finger-length 26 June. Three days later, it's a foot long:
Foot long zucca
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 June 2012.
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Category Archives: Plants
Early corn Planting —Alla Peek Quarterman
My grandmother wrote this around 1960, when she was around 77 years old. -jsq
I remember when corn in the fields was dropped by hand — 2 grains every two steps. Mule plow opened the furrow & children dropped the grains.
The first corn planter was considered bad — it was sure to keep the seed from sprouting!
My brother Patrick found this text in a notebook his aunt Elsie had kept.
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Woodpecker trees, Okra Paradise Farms, 29 June 2012
We had to take down one dead tree, but there are others for the woodpeckers. Well, people keeping telling me this oak is dead, but I say it's only been a few years, and it's going to sprout out again any time now:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 June 2012.
Dead pine:
Continue readingBaby pumpkin @ Okra Paradise Farms 26 June 2012
Yellow Dog with a pumpkin:
Yellow Dog with a pumpkin
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
Yellow Dog guarding a pumpkin:
Continue readingBaby Zucca @ Okra Paradise Farms 26 June 2012
Here it is:
Here it is
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
It’s an Italian squash. Closeup:
Mimosa blooming
The mimosa tree Albizia julibrissin is an invasive exotic that got imported because its flowers look pretty.
Flowers
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 27 May 2012.
Closeup:
44 pounds of okra @ Okra Paradise Farms
Last week Gretchen and I had to search to find a few pounds of okra. This morning, Terry Davis and I picked 44 pounds of okra:
Terry Davis and the okra
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 25 June 2012.
Picking up:
Continue readingYellow Dog with Chinaberry, Melia azedarach L., Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 June 2012
Chinaberry:
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 June 2012.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms.
More about this invasive exotic from southeast Asia at bugwood.org.
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Peas @ Okra Paradise Farms 2012-04-15
Pick ’em and shell ’em:
Picture by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms. |
Picture by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, |
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Lilies and minnows at the pond 2012-04-22
Lily:
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 April 2012.
Lilies: