Gretchen planted these bananas in June 2017. First harvest this morning.
Tag Archives: Okra Paradise Farms
The Shirt Formerly Known as White 2019-08-04
After a few hours of hacking and tractor-mowing Japanese Climbing Fern and Chinese Privet, this is what my shirt looked like:
Everybody wears a white shirt to work in the woods, right?
-jsq
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
Pitcher plants and sundew 2019-05-18
In the same place as a month ago, but now grown to a clump:
Probably Sarracenia minor, the Continue reading
Snake chose poorly, say dogs 2019-05-18
Update 2019-05-20: A more likely identification.
Definitely not a rattlesnake. Whatever it is, it chose poorly by showing up right in front of the dogs’ doghouse.
Don’t know which dog dislikes them most, maybe Yellow Dog. Continue reading
Hanging Pitcher Plant 2019-05-08
It’s a Nepenthes.
Pretty sure it’s a Nepenthes mirabilis, which is common across southeast Asia. Yes, that makes it exotic here, but it’s very picky, so Continue reading
Good Lizard 2018-05-08
Good lizard!
Eat them roaches!
You can see this is quite a large lizard, since those shelves are made out of six-inch-wide floor boards. So that’s really more like 5.125 inch, but that lizard is quite a bit longer than that.
Eat more bugs, lizard, and get bigger!
-jsq
Longleaf small and large 2019-04-20
Sundew 2019-04-20
Found in the same spot as three years ago.
Presumably the common sundew, Drosera rotundifolia. Continue reading
Pitcher Plant 2019-04-20
First I’ve seen in the wild in these woods in more than forty years: a pitcher plant.
Presumably Sarracenia minor Walter. Continue reading