Mark and Paula (Hammond, Louisiana) shared pictures of their cherry tomatoes. Looks like quite a crop.
One of our Moultrie cameras captured a picture of a bobcat. We have seen this bobcat in pictures before, but this is the best daytime picture of him that we have.
It has been very hot so far this summer and we don’t have many pictures from the cameras. Here are two pictures of our turkeys taken in May. Hopefully, we will see some poults on the cameras soon.
Sunflowers (below) are in full bloom. Look at the different varieties. We did not plant any of the extremely tall or big sunflowers like last year, but we are happy with the variety of the sunflowers that are blooming.
Slideshow below: We finally have watermelon. Don’t think we will be having a party and serving these watermelons anytime soon though. Picture 1 and 2 are of the watermelon as we found it today. Pictures 3-6 are other watermelons on the same plant. Picture #7 is the same watermelon as in picture 1 – but this picture is from 4 days ago. It has tripled in size in just a few day.
Once the pumpkin makes it to around 6 inches long and 10 inches around, it usually keeps growing. We are finding that the plants “self prune” more than half of the new pumpkins we find. We think we will have about 20 pumpkins to harvest. That is enough for many of the younger great nieces and nephews to each have a pumpkin to harvest. Since I was 71 before I harvested my first pumpkin, I think they will have a treat that few young children experience- that is actually harvesting their own Jack O Lantern.
Only three of the kernels from Simply Irresistible (2 rows on the left) have sprouted, but the kernels left over from last years crop (rows 3-7 on the right) have all sprouted and are approximately 5 inches tall. Flip through the slideshow below.
Our friends, Chris and Debbie, are enjoying time in St. Barths (below). Hope you are have a wonderful trip and thanks for sharing the beach with us!
These are our newest watermelon plants. They, too, are off to a slow start. Hopefully they will get their act together soon and start flourishing.
Do you notice all the bare stems around this pumpkin below? We don’t know if the goats or a visiting deer has taken a liking to the pumpkin leaves. We found leaves missing around two of our pumpkin patches that extend into the goat yard- so the goats are highly suspect at this point in time! Deer do occasionally jump the fence into the goat yard, so I guess we need to activate our cameras again to find the pumpkin leaf-eating culprit.
