Joy and Joel Cherry are sour fruits that look like sour cherries.
They are not actually a cherry, but similar. They are very ornamental with spring flowers, red fruits in late summer, and good fall color, too.
Goat Trap
A goat was enjoying some food in the feeder.
But then proceeded to push through the opening and get stuck in there.
Goats are fun to watch.
They loved to run around on recently cut pasture and have been enjoying eating there.
Sweet Onion Harvest
The Sweet Onion harvest was large enough so I can dry some of them.
Some of the individual onions were of very large size.
Golden Raintree Flowers
The Golden Raintree(Koelreuteria paniculata) flowers at a young age.
The tree is very ornamental when clothed in the many flowers.
Shiny Green
I noticed a lot of green beetles in my flower garden this summer.
This beetle is known as the Dogbane Beetle and has been feeding on milkweed.
Spotted Wing Drosophila
Spotted Wing Drosophila(Drosophila suzukii) was spotted on my place this summer and has caused problems with some of the fruits.
I think it was already creating problems last year but I didn’t know what it was. There will be clouds of these fruit flies around some of the fruits, like the blackberries.
I noticed some predators are taking advantage of the new food source and things like spiders and lacewings are increasing in numbers.
Summer of the Peaches
It has been many years since I’ve had a good peach crop. This summer everything aligned perfectly and the peach trees were loaded with fruit.
I have been busy eating, drying, freezing, and canning the excess peaches.
I juiced some of the peaches and created some peach nectar to drink, too.
This was the first year my Belle of Georgia Peach produced its white fleshed peaches. The white peaches had some floral taste to them and were different than the usual yellow peach that I have eaten in the past.
Yellow Peach on left and White Peach on right.
German Giant
German Giant Tomatoes have worked good for preserving.
The plants have produced big tomatoes and sometimes huge tomatoes that can get close to 2 lbs each.
Moisturin Disappointment
Moisturin is similar to Wiltpruf, but comes in a worse container for storage. I tried contacting this company about these problems, but they will not respond to me.
The container they are using to sell this product rusts very fast and is compromised. The Moisturin leaks out of this can and the liquid product is wasted.
Children of the Roof
A guinea fowl mom was sitting on a nest and had a large number of keets. I caught 25 of the babies because guineas are not good mothers. 2 escaped my capture and I let her raise them.
Since it has been very dry this summer, that has helped her two babies survive. They can fly good now and like to spend time on the roof, too.