The spider that keeps insects out of the bathroom:
The spider that keeps insects out of the bathroom
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 July 2012.
It likes that little stool I put there for it! Some people have aquariums….
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Gretchen picks peppers every day, and right now she's baking pepper muffins to take to Valdosta Farm Days at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog helping:
Brown Dog and Yellow Dog helping Gretchen Quarterman pick peppers.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 July 2012.
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Picked 60 pounds of okra and more is flowering. There's a bee on one of those flowers:
Picked 60 pounds of okra and more is flowering
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 July 2012.
Pumpkins keep getting bigger:
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These three pumpkins doubled in size between 26 and 29 June.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 June 2012.
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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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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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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 readingPicking:
Picture of Gretchen Quarterman picking tomatoes by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
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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 readingHere 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: