Sammy (Pops) is holding some nice trout. Fritz is with his mom (Heddie) in middle picture below. The shark did not hold still for his picture- but you get the idea from the picture below.
Cousins at Lake Keowee enjoying the beautiful water of the lake.
The Pygmy goats were all about getting fed, then resting in the shade this morning. They did want to each have a picture taken of their face and get petted before returning to the shade. Notice how they play musical chairs with their positions at the feed trough.
The Raspberry harvest was not very plentiful this morning, but enough to freeze for smoothies. The rest of the pictures below are of pumpkins and the pumpkin patch on the hill. We put boards under 15 new pumpkins this morning. Hopefully, they will all continue to grow and we will have pumpkins for the children to harvest in October.
We obviously missed a pumpkin that was growing through the fence. I guess we failed at pumpkin babysitting. We had to harvest this pumpkin early. Maybe Jackie can tell us what to do with an “early pumpkin”.
Below: We had an algae bloom accompanied by lots of pollen. Flip though the slides below. It was worse last night, but only covers one end of the pond this morning.
We cleared the area and replanted corn for our second harvest in September. Unfortunately, we only had 25 kernels of Simply Irresistible, so we planted the balance of the rows with the kernels from last year. (Hope they grow!). Notice the bird netting so the crows don’t dig up our kernels of corn before they have time to sprout. We are going with the trench method again this year. (Corn is planted in the trenches and covered with 1.5 inches of dirt.) After the corn sprouts, Bruce will pile dirt around the stalks to form rows.
We shucked the corn from the harvest yesterday. It is not uncommon to find the larvae of the moth at the mouth of the corn. The moth lays one egg in the silk which hatches over the last two weeks of the corn growth. This can be prevented by more spraying of the corn, but we did not spray our corn that close to harvest. The corn worm is common in “organic corn” that you purchase at the market- although all corn is really ORGANIC, so the term is truly a misnomer. The term “organic” is now used by some to mean that pesticides were not used in the growth of the produce. However, anything grown is Organic even if pesticides were used in the growth. Flip through the slides. Our friends and family will have fresh corn for the 4th of July!
The passion flower produces seed pods. The seedpods in both pictures below are from the same passion flower plant. The one on the right is older and has turned yellow.
Our little watermelons have totally disappeared. We think the rabbits are enjoying the small delicacies at night. We will try a net if we see any more small watermelons on the vines. At least the vines are still producing flowers.
Enjoy the slide show below. #1 -3 are Figs, #4 is a Persimmon tree (Plaquemine is Indian for Persimmon) #5&6 are Pear trees, #7 is another fig, #8 and 9 are the avocado trees.
