Category: Berries and Fruits
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The watermelon seeds planted 1 week ago have sprouted. The new pumpkin seeds planted last weekend are also up.
Flip through the slideshow above. Can you tell the difference between watermelon and pumpkin at this stage? Hint-first 5 pictures are pumpkin and second 5 pictures are watermelon. Look closely and you will notice that pumpkin plants have rounded, slightly wider leaves, while the watermelon leaves are more pointed and a little thinner. Don’t worry…
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The pumpkins are growing fast, but no flowers yet. We will have blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries soon.
These pumpkins were planted about three weeks ago. Hard to believe they can grow that fast. The flowers against the fence are Mexican sunflowers (if we kept track of the correct seed packet). It won’t be long before we can pick these blueberries. They have to turn blue first. Blueberries will not get sweeter once…
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Pumpkins, Sunflowers, and Watermelon
The pumpkins are in the boxes and just above the boxes. We planted sunflower seeds from last years crop. These sunflowers should grow to four feet tall. We did not plant any of the extremely tall sunflowers this year. We also planted pumpkin seeds and watermelon seeds. We poured a little potting soil to give…
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If you know anyone who homeschools their children, or a teacher who wants to give her students a “slice of nature”, please share our blog with them. We are happy to answer questions about the farm, the animals, and the plants. We also appreciate any “likes” you might send our way.
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Blackberries and Raspberries
Above is a Slideshow of Blackberry bushes The blackberries have taken off and are already producing fruit. You can still see white flowers on the bushes. These flowers will be pollinated and then produce blackberries. If you look at the slide show, you will see the green berries that will eventually ripen into blackberries. The…
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The raspberries and blackberries are growing
The raspberries are taking off. Pretty soon we will have flowers. When the flowers are fertilized, the berry will start to form. The blackberries are already putting out flowers. The berries will not be far behind. Hopefully, this plant will put out a whole lot more flowers or it will be a very slim crop…
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Keeping the Deer off the fruit trees and berries
Not all of our gardens are fenced and some of the fences can be easily jumped by deer. Our good friend, Dr. Carter, suggested we purchase a product to spray the fruit trees and blueberries. We also make an invisible fence around areas we want to be “deer free”. So far, this has been very…
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Two new Cherry Trees
We lost two of our Cherry Trees over the winter. I am sure it was something we did wrong, but thank heavens we had insurance on our trees. Fast Growing Trees sent us two beautiful new trees and we will try again. One is a Bing and one is a Lapis. You have to have…
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Raspberries and Black Berries
All of the raspberries came from plants started by our son. We did harvest about three dozen last year and are hoping for a better harvest this year. We purchased the blackberries about a month ago. They are just starting to show some growth.