Category: Vegetables
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4th of July Weekend and the final days of Grandparent’s camp
Kennan starts the 4th of July Week with a big catch off of Grand Isle. The children returned to the corn field for another harvest. The variety of sweet corn is named “simple irresistible” and it is truly delicious. They also harvested more raspberries and blackberries and checked out the pumpkins which are still getting…
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Harvesting the corn, Zip line, puff paint, map puzzles, birds and pumpkins
Today, we checked the corn. Our harvest date is supposed to be June 28th, but we were hoping to find some corn that would be good for dinner. The campers found two blackberries and enough raspberries to eat with dessert. Even in the heat, everyone wanted to try the zip line and the ninja rope.…
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Pumpkins, Watermelon flower (finally) and sunrise
The green pumpkins are the smaller variety (15 pounds) and the yellow pumpkins are the larger variety. We have lost a few of the pumpkins to mold even though we put them on boards. We are still happy with the pumpkins we see. This is the second pumpkin patch. There is only one pumpkin flower…
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Bass Fishing, Crawfishing, and of course, Father’s Day
Robby, Craig and Bruce went crawfishing in Louisiana. Well, it looks like Robby went crawfishing and Craig and Bruce watched! The traps were baited yesterday and placed in the crawfish pond. The little boat Robby is pushing has a tray where the crawfish are dumped from the crawfish trap. Do you see the purple sack…
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No Laughing Matter! And Baby Bluebirds have feathers (corn, pumpkins, flowers, goats and fishing.
Well, YES it IS a laughing matter or just call it Southern Engineering. That is exactly what it looks like. (You may have to enlarge the picture to see all the string.) We borrowed large poles from Jackie and Bobby and strung up the wind-blown corn with string. We only worked on the three worst…
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More Saltwater Fishing, Big Blackberries, Raspberries, Possible Tornado, Watermelon and Goats
The second day of fishing at Grand Isle was even better than the first. Clayton’s fish is almost bigger than he is. Below is a slideshow of Grand Isle beach pictures including a group effort sand castle. Note the tiny crab that Gretchen is holding. Slideshow below: The bird netting at the farm worked and…
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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…