Category: The Farm
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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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Getting ready to thin the herd
Let us know if you would like one of these goats (as PETS, not for the pit). Goats want to be part of a group, so it is best to have more than one!
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Birds, Sunflowers, Seeds, Dahlias and Zinnias
This is the Great Crested Flycatcher which is a species of Tyrant flycatchers. Its range is the eastern half of the United States. it is sitting on the top of our tallest sunflower plant. This bird hunts in different ways, but its main strategy is “sit and wait”. The Sunflowers should start blooming very soon.…
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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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Sunrise on 5-26-23
The slide show below shows two beautiful Cypress trees (slides 2 and 3) in a freshwater Louisiana lake. The woody roots surrounding the trees are called cypress knees. The exact function is unknown, but the current theory is that that knees aid in aerating the roots of the tree. Slides 7 and 8 show the…
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Birds, Alligators, and Bass at the Louisiana Pond
5.2 pound bass caught on 5-21-23 at 8 am- bass was released. Below are two pictures of “lost” artificial baits and hooks which fishermen left behind in the trees. Flip through the slideshow and then watch the videos below. The birds in the slideshow will be named in the videos. Watch the Limpkin catch its…
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The flowers are starting to bloom.
Flip through the slide show of flowers. #1 is a butterfly plant #2-7 are dahlias #8 is the flower on a blackberry and #9 is a mixture of Zinnias, Sulfur Cosmos and Sunflowers on the back row.
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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…