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This is our early corn.  We just picked and enjoyed these few ears earlier today. The silver-queen corn still has another couple of weeks before it is rea...

These are a variety of tomatoes that were just picked this morning. We sliced that cherokee purple one on the right this morning, and added just a touch of salt......DELICIOUS!!  The breakfast of Champions! :...

Our first real pickin'.  Just picked tonight ...

Our peppers are officially planted! Some of the plants were a bit leggy so to start out with, Papa had to remove the leaves from the bottom 2/3 of the plants.  He also removed all of the small peppers that had formed on the plants prior to planting them in the garden.   Once that was done the plants were ready to go and he was able to plant these peppers deeper into the holes. He dug...

We just got these brown turkey figs trees to add to our orchard. They're only about two and a half feet tall and should take about a year or so before they really start growing and putting on fruit. One of them actually has a small fig on it. See? ...

Here is an inside glimpse of part of what goes into the ground work for our garden.  One of the things that we do is that we mulch our walkways, and in-between the rows of the garden.  Here are some pics of our latest load that we just got today.  Papa takes it out and shovels it into his wheel barrel.  And then one batch at a time   He layers into the rows where he has already placed down cardboard. The...

This weekend Papa spent some time putting in our tomato cages:   Now we've got two nice rows of tomato plants.  The ones on the left are all roma tomato plants, minus one plant which are grape tomatoes. And then on the right we've got marmandes, german johnson, and a few cherokee tomato plants. These babies have already got some fruit on 'em! The romas on the other hand were just recently planted. And...