The jungle that is my garden, has gone from mildly unruly to devouring every inch inside the green house. After a solid week of rain followed by hot clear days, there is quite a difference.
Green House busting at the seams
The melons won’t stay inside either. That vine on the outside found itself too cramped with the others (sorry guys, I over seeded!) Being the worry wort that I am, plus last summer’s drought and subsequent total crop failure, I planted three seeds per hill and refused to thin them out. Same story for the lot at the south end of the yard.
South Patch doing pretty good exposed to the elements
As I poked around in the morning, I found another melon nearly full size. That brings the total to ten actual melons! There are more babies in the green house and south patch is starting to convert blooms to fruit. South patch was planted about three weeks after the green house seeds (I was worried the first batch wouldn’t produce anything).
I will be overrun with orange cantaloupes by the end of summer. Agua fresca anyone? Suppose they will be handy when summer just.won’t.end. we will be rolling in melons. In the meantime, I’ll be babysitting the younglings and checking the bigger melons regularly.
I have a feeling that those are the best tasting melons 🙂
They taste clean, makes me wonder how long those melons at the grocery store have been sitting there and where they came from.
What an adventure you have – just going into your lush and wonderful garden. All the money in the world cannot replace this experience. Virginia