Category: Berries and Fruits
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Pumpkins, Corn, Moles, Flowers, Fishing, and “Can goats learn”
Oh my heavens! Look how fast the pumpkins are growing. They have doubled in size in three days. Since size is hard to determine, I put my fist next to the pumpkins. In the second picture, the pumpkin was the size of a grapefruit (or the same size as the pumpkin in the first picture)…
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Sunrise, pumpkins, berries, fishing, goats, bluebirds and more!
Sunrise over lake at Norwood, Louisiana on June 7, 2023 We have two varieties of pumpkins at the farm. One variety (with unbelievable care) can reach 2,000 pounds. These are called Dill’s Atlantic Giant. It takes 120 days to reach its full size. We are just hoping for a LARGE pumpkin as we are not…
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Goats, Fishing, Flowers, Pumpkin pollination, and Bats
Fool seems to like wearing the Pit Vipers (sunglasses). The last slide is Quinn holding Camo (Ghost). Camo is still not crazy about being held. Bass fishing in Florida- all catch and release- Things got better as the trip progressed! Flip through the pictures below. The last one is 4.8 pounds. Flip through the pictures…
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Memorial Day Weekend- Louisiana Salt Water Fishing, Flowers, Pumpkins, Watermelon, Corn, and Goats
Seems a lot of people went fishing over the long weekend. Obviously the slides above are from salt water fishing. Flip through the slide show below. We actually have pumpkins growing! Note the flower opening that does NOT have a bulb below (slides 3 and 4) These are male flower. Look through the slideshow below…
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Bass on the Beds, different plants blooming, and finally the muscadine vine is growing!
Bass usually spawn in the spring and summer as the water heats up. The male bass usually begins the process of making a nest or “bed” and the female then joins him. Not all beds are in shallow areas, but it is easy to spot these beds when they are in shallow muddy areas. The…
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Blue Bird Update and new Blue berry plants
We checked 4 Blue bird houses. We found a nest with 3 eggs, no nest, a nest with four eggs, and a nest with baby bluebirds. My boys sent me 4 new blueberry plants for Mother’s Day. The plants are a hybrid called Southern Bluebells Blueberry. They were shipped a week ago, but just arrived,…
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Pumpkin flowers, An Apple, Garlic harvesting, Cilantro, and more
Did you know that pumpkins vines have both male and female flowers. The female flowers have a bulb like structure behind the flower. When the flower opens, it needs to be pollinated within a day. If it is pollinated, it goes on to form a pumpkin. If not pollinated, it withers. The male flower does…
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Update on the fruit trees and blueberries
The 14 pictures above are our fruit trees. The first 8 pictures are the apple trees and apple blossoms. 9-13 are the fig trees from Preston. The 14th is the top of the pear tree and shows the bugs that infested the new growth. We broke off these few leaves and sprayed the trees to…
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The pumpkins are taking over and the corn is already knee high!
Looks like we will have to move the Mexican sunflowers because the pumpkins are growing so fast. Flip through the pictures in the slideshow. The garlic is close to harvest, and the cilantro is going to seed. The corn looks happy. Some of the corn did not sprout, so we planted new corn in these…