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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Pics from the farm:

One day's harvest:


Baby watermelons forming. There are a lot of these out there!


My "Shark Fin Squash" are doing well:


A pumpkin from my breeding project. It will most likely turn orange when it gets ripe, although I wouldn't object to a green one. There was so much glare when I was taking the picture that I couldn't actually see what I was doing, so it ended up being zoomed in closer than I wanted. Oh well.



My potato patch has been going gangbusters. The fingerlings came out kind of bitter, but the other varieties are tasty. They're averaging about a pound per foot of row space, which makes the math easy. 5 rows, at 50-ft long, equals a LOT of potatoes this winter :)

My wheat patch, on the other hand . . . Well, let's just say I'm counting that in terms of "lessons learned". Hopefully my winter wheat will do better.

My chickens are enjoying tomato season. They get to eat any that are too cracked or bug-eaten to take inside. I love watching them play keep-away with a big red tomato piece!
27 posted on 08/15/2020 9:10:01 AM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: Ellendra

Those are wonderful photos!

My brother has a pumpkin-growing contest with his daughter and wife - they grow the super-large pumpkins and hope to have some huge ones to enter in the local contest - he came home last year and his pumpkin had broken off at the stem. You’d a thought he lost one of his children the way he was carrying on.

We are harvesting lemons, figs and have quite a few pomegranates that are ripening - if my kitty can keep the tree rats out of the pomegranate bushes.


32 posted on 08/15/2020 10:01:57 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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