It looks like the black eyed peas have started to grow...yay! They actually may grow taller than the okra soon.
The zucchini is growing great also. We have gotten 5 so far...yummy yummy! My sister, L, fried some up last night the way we fry crookneck squash and it was yummy. I steamed some in the microwave and my grandmother tried it, but she didn't care for it much. My dad declined to try it.
The cushaw squash plants are HUGE! They are beginning to grow out of the row...not sure what I'll do about that yet. I think they aren't ready to harvest until late summer, so it could be a long wait.
Our Cherokee Trail of Tears beans are doing okay. We had a small mess and my grandmother cooked them up. She said they were a little tough, but we haven't given up yet. We've started picking them a bit younger. We had another mess, but there was a kitchen "incident" and the beans didn't make it. We picked last night and got half of a five-gallon bucket of beans. It came out to be about two gallons or so of snapped beans.
On Saturday, I color coded the tomato plants in our tomato garden. I took about a 12 inch long piece of colored yarn and put on the cage, by variety. I am also making and laminating a card with the name of each variety on it and putting a piece of the yard on it. I will have each one with a binder ring so we can just snap them onto the bucket and know which variety is which.
Daddy got irrigation to the watermelon plants and they are really growing. This picture was taken last week and they have almost doubled in size since then.
The three on the left are Georgia Rattlesnake watermelons and the three on the right are Jubilee watermelons. Both are the seeded oblong watermelons. I can't wait!
My in-laws will be in town this weekend. I brought home some of the potatoes, beans, squash, zucchini, and cucumbers to do a really yummy dinner...will share after I cook it!
Enjoy your day!
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