Category: Berries and Fruits
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Growing Melons, Tall Sunflowers, Harvested Corn, and Pumpkin Decorations
Slideshow below: The first honeydew and cantaloupe were planted on July 23, 2023. It has now been a 1.5 months and look at the fruit! These melons should mature at 1-3 pounds. The cantaloupe has stripes and the honeydew does not. The larger melons were the size of a peanut less than two weeks ago.…
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Watermelon, Tsunami, Night Vision, Caterpillars, and Family
Our second watermelon patch has fruit! This watermelon is a different variety than the melons we harvested in August. The melon will have to get a little larger for us to determine the variety. Guess who looks fine today? Tsunami is no longer limping. BELOW: Night Vision binocular pictures of 1. Two deer in the…
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Goats, Fruit, and Herbs
Tsunami started limping on Thursday afternoon. At first, she would not put her foot on the ground. We decided to watch her and see if it improved before we rushed off to the vet. She seems to be doing a little better, but then last night she could hardly walk. She has not cried or…
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Jerusalem artichokes, melons, Rain, Bees, and School.
Below: These are Jerusalem artichoke plants. They are actually a species of sunflowers. After the plant dies, the tuber is harvested to eat. The tubers are scrubbed, and maybe boiled or baked. They are very mild tasting when served with a little salt and butter. Remember- too much of a good thing may not be…
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Tiny crab, Filter mystery, Watermelons, More butterflies and caterpillars, Saints, and Beach
Calder, Beckett, and Oryne sent us pictures of a tiny crab they caught on the beach. They released the crab after the picture. Here is another example of an exoskeleton. The exoskeleton has to be shed in order for this crab to get larger. Before the hard exoskeleton (shell) is shed, the crab forms a…
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Sunflower, Pumpkins, and Insects
These plants are called Maximilian Sunflowers (Helianthus). It is a perennial sunflower with numerous blooms. The blooms grow up to 5 inches. Five inches is usually smaller than many sunflowers that have only one or two blooms on the plant. Note: Perennial vs. Annual– A Perennial plant reappears each year for several years sending up…
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Watermelon, Pumpkins, Corn, and Blackberries
Our biggest watermelon to date weights 13.8 pounds. We picked it today and gave it to Brenda to do a taste test. Brenda just texted pictures in the slideshow below and said it was the sweetest watermelon she had ever tasted and the consistency was perfect. We think this was a Crimson Sweet (Seed source:…
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Watermelons, Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Christmas Cactus, and Birthday
We checked the remaining watermelons. The stems to the two smaller watermelon were totally brown (Picture 1 below). We harvested both smaller watermelon. The larger watermelon (Pictures 2, 3, 4 below) still has a green stem that does not have any give. We will leave this watermelon in the field just a little longer. Bruce…
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Goats and Fishing on the farm and Turtles Hatching by Ella Clare
The kids are not wild about being picked up, but they do appreciate getting to eat without the larger goats butting them out of the way. Below Quinn holds Fool (pictures 1, 2, 3, 4). Ike holds April while Quinn holds Peanut (pictures 5 and 6). April and Fool are 4.5 months old. Peanut is…
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Harvesting Pumpkins and watermelon!
Ike and Quinn harvested pumpkins this weekend with Grandad! Now we have to figure what to do with all the pumpkins. The two smaller watermelons both had the little vine by the stem turn brown. In addition, the vines to these watermelon were coming off, so even though they were small, it was time to…