It's Turning Orange!!

Last time I saw the pumpkins they were big, small and medium. I never knew that pumpkins are green then turn to orange. At our pumpkin patch there was a snake, well Shellie described it was very long and dark color snake. Which she shrieked at and jumped away, making Imani and I mimick her.

What's Bright And Sunny?

SUNFLOWERS! Many or all the planted sunflowers have bloomed, but I have not closely examined them yet because of the snake incident 2 weeks ago. I can say that they are bright and tall looking.

The Pumpkins!

On Saturday, I checked the pumpkin plants and they were growing bigger but not the actual pumpkin yet. There were a bunch, I mean a bunch of a yellow black striped bug like a bee, but small and curved than round, all around and inside the flower. Looking at them, crawling around in the same area and just thinking about this is giving me goosebumps. Shiver.
So I shook the pumpkin flower a few times with me shoes for them to escape. When I was satisfied with the results, I walked away. :]

ready to sell

On Saturday some of us came over to the farm and picked out peppers, ground cherry,potatoes and onion chives in a bunch, we picked them out so that we can start selling them at the farmers market on Sunday which means that every Saturday we pick the fruits and vegetables out and on Sunday we sell them out to people, if you farmers market buyers are reading this come on down to Park Street and buy something from us Madison farmers.

What's Ready And Not, Or Semi-ready

This week Shellie cracked opened one of our 1st ready, yellow watermelon and it was yellow alright and juicy and sweet enough to tasted like a watermelon. It was my first time eating an yellow watermelon.

Some of the tomatoes were ripening so 3 people went, search and than plucked them off. I learned from Shellie that if you let the red tomatoes unpicked than the mice would scramble towards the sweet smell and bite a big chunk of it.

Mr.R picked 3 cucumbers this Monday, I think, and they were long.

We check on how the carrots were doing yesterday, which the area needed hoeing and weeding. They were still small, maybe an inch long. Shellie said they were sweet and they were, kinda.

I thought the green beans were so cute. They were long, skinny, small and most of all they were pale green.

The pumpkins were beginning to grow their flowers.

Lots of peppers were dangling from their stem.

Weeding Weeding Hoeing Weeding Hoeing Weeding

These past weeks we have been mostly hoeing and weeding the onions, carrots, green beans, ground cherries, sunflowers, watermelons, peppers and tomatoes. I was more of a weeder than a hoer. I'm so thankful for the gardening/working gloves we have. If not I imaging our hands would have leave cuts instead of leaving paper like cuts and skin to bug that is like eww.

The Effects Of TLC

On Monday morning, we observed our plants instead of working because the dirt was being soft and muddy. I notice the watermelon plants that were dying became less wrinkly and decaying into a more lively and light green plant that you wouldn't even notice it was a plant that needed TLC. I thought to myself that with the simple ingredients of TLC any plant can grow and live on.