Always good to see the first flower of the bananas.
![[Gretchen and the first banana bloom of the year]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-05-27--scarecrow-banana-rosemallow/20240527_101151.jpg)
Gretchen and the first banana bloom of the year
Bananas are not trees, you know. They are very large bulbs.
![[Blooming banana]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-05-27--scarecrow-banana-rosemallow/20240527_101158.jpg)
Gretchen has several varieties of bananas.
-jsq
Category Archives: squash
Okra, Squash, Scarecrow 2024-05-27
Update 2024-05-30: Blueberry Scacrecrow 2024-05-24.
Maybe the scarecrow will keep the critters off the okra and the yellow squash.
![[Okra, squash, scarecrow]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-05-27--scarecrow-banana-rosemallow/20240527_100135.jpg)
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.
-jsq
Spider hat, garden vegetables 2021-06-28
A common occurrence in the woods: a banana spider on my hat.
![[Orb weaver spider on hat]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-06-28--spider-hat-garden-vegetables/20210628_160411.jpg)
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
Johnsons with okra, corn, and pitcher plants 2019-06-24
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 went to the garden.
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
Growing after rain.
Squash.
Yellow squash
Coming up.
