Almost all of my heros are dead.
Sad indeed
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It does make you feel weird when everyone that you grew up with is dead
We had a helluva crew back then
The memories of the things they did keep me going
2nd picking today.
The whole family walked the neighborhood today and left fresh squash on all the porches. Hopefully the kids remember this as a fun experience and will want to repeat it themselves one day.
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I’m getting there! This was Monday’s harvest, and first from the garden this season. I gave them away to my neighbors.
I have a few more to cut today, which will probably be part of todays dinner. 
We sure needed this rain, at least the garden did. I bet it’s messed up some folks fishing however. 
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Haha my wife has a hat with pineapples on it that she loves. Got lots of smiles at the state park campground over spring break, now she won’t wear it since she knows too much
Looking good Mr Jim, y’all are killing the summer gardens already!
Friend has a plum tree that we have collectively picked well over 100lbs off already. Brother in law is making some wine!
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That’s a good boy
Well I have built and filled 8 beds in the last couple months. We have yellow squash and zucchini, handful of tomato varieties, green onions, watermelons, okra, basils, mints, bell and hot peppers, and a couple more things in the beds. I started a couple of Muscadine grape variety along the front fence as well as put some cages around some wild muscadines that came up out the ground of a recently cleared area. We also had a red Mulberry pop up out the ground as well!
In cloth bags I have two avocados, one verigated pink lemon and one satsuma orange trees.
We also have some unknown squash from a commercial fisherman/farmer on St Thomas named Winston so we just call it Winston Squash.
Our first zucchini is ready to harvest tomorrow and we have 2.5 beds with nothing in them yet so we will figure some more stuff to plant soon.
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Looking great Rap!!!
That’s a lotta work man, you’re set for some serious produce soon! Bet that little dump cart has paid for itself many times over already.
Mr Johnny told me the crazy wheelie ramp boat is you, I’ll come say hi next time. See you down the river, cap!
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Bear is more of a chase birds on a sandbar type of guy. He is a pure bred Virgin Islands bush dog and enjoys a good beach.
só like mine, he’ll hunt shade and snacks?
I didn’t prune my peaches, so today I dropped fruit. Supposed to be one peach every 5 or 6 inches apart doen a shoot.
Here’s what they were looking like…
and now…
Peaches blossom on new growth. A good tree needs hacked back every year, if you skip a year this is the price you pay.
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Took the rest of my squash and zucchini off the plants today, then cleaned up the garden around the corn. Disced up the old plants and put plastic back down for October pumpkins. Planted a variety this year, so we’ll see what happens!
Looking forward to pulling some sweet corn off in a week or two. The smaller corn is 3 weeks behind on purpose.
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Haha, you will get past that Charlie Brown corn next year by doing 3 or 4 rows in the chicken poo.
Had to mess with ya, lol.
NN
You still have time to put some pure nitrogen on that corn
The old people called it soda
I’ll be happy if I get a few to eat this year. We’ll see how the first row comes out.
They called it “sodie” 'round here.
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I’ve tried growing corn a few times, but have never done well with it. One year I planted in two areas and they both seemed to start out well, but then didn’t develop and fill out, and what did, the worms got. Part of that was my fault, not spraying them enough to control pests, but now I plant what I’ve done well with, and if I want corn to eat, I just buy it.