Take a Look at My Melons! 😲
This may be the only time you'll be glad this is click bait and I'm not showing you MY melons!
We have a short retaining wall of about three feet high that runs the length of our home. When I graded the flat spot on our hill for the Outdoor Kitchen and Playground early this year, I pushed all of the topsoil down and back-filled the retaining wall. When it came time to plant our seedlings, we had the perfect plants for this area... Watermelon and Pumpkins!
We have four watermelon plants and two pumpkin growing in an area that is roughly 8 feet by 30 feet. They have happily spread out and taken full advantage of the top soil to grow.
Very nice! I just ate my first ever home-grown cantaloupe. It was so-so and rather small but I've never had any luck with them before.
Hey, great job! We had one cantaloupe "make it" this year. The boys ate it without complaints. ;)
Wow those are nice.
Thanks, we've been pleased with their turnout for sure!
Nice melons ;0)
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Hehe, thank you!
Envious ! I had two melon plants growing in pots, but when I went to move them into the new greenhouse one slipped and broke 😭
My hope of grabbing some melons now rest on that one remaining plant...
Oh, that's terrible!
We've been pleasantly surprised at the turnout of them this year. Best we've ever had grow!
So good! One way to check they are ripe is to pat them like you would a bongo drum of the sound solid-flat they aren't ready yet. When they get a good resonating - kind of hollow sound then they are ready! We have only one vine growing and it hasn't set fruit yet. I might pull it and start again next month.
Such a fun and delicious fruit, hope you're family enjoys. Also this post needs 100% more moobs :-)
Thanks! We tried that method but didn't wait long enough. This is our first time having melons make it this far so we're in uncharted territory. 😀
I have a hard time with melons as well. Pumpkins are easy!!
This was our first year with (so far) successful pumpkins. Fingers crossed!
Wow! Would love to sink my teeth into that one. She's a beauty!
They are, aren't they?! Amazing they've done so well without any pesticide or real attention on our part.
Your mellons are doing much better than ours! Nice melons!
We got lucky this year. ;)
I love those melons! Yummy! Good job!
Thank you!
Very nice! I've got some watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew still on the vine. Hopefully in another week or two, I'll get to try mine.
Awesome! Think you'll post on it?
Yes, I'm planning on it.