Showing posts with label watermelon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watermelon. Show all posts

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Rectangle watermelon!

We thought our watermelon was all done this season, but it had one last surprise!  While pulling out peanut and tomato plants, I noticed something green in one of the cinder blocks.  Growing inside of 2 blocks (top and bottom) was our last watermelon!

I broke the blocks apart to get it out and washed and cut it before this picture.  It tastes ok, though maybe a bit old, since we're not sure how long it's been there.

I may try this on purpose in the future with a smaller, sweeter watermelon variety.  Pixel watermelon FTW :)

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Garden status late July

The tomatoes have stopped producing so much, the peanuts are getting large, and we've already harvested a couple of watermelons!  The watermelon plant is taking over everything!  It's climbing the fence, blanketing the yard corner, and sneaking into the strawberry bed!  There are several more watermelons growing, including one that's hanging on the fence! (look to the right in the picture)

The other plants seem to be doing about as well as usual, though the (relatively new) banana plants put out new (large) leaves about once a week, or possibly once every few days.  It's been pretty hot here, so we water every day, sometimes twice per day for some plants, to try to keep things alive during 100+ degree F afternoons.



Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Suddenly, watermelon!

So, somehow we missed these and thought our giant watermelon plants were fruitless.  Today, I looked around the back and found 5 watermelon, with one almost grocery store sized!

We'll let them grow for a bit before harvesting them.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Mid-June Garden Status

Status post for mid-June 2018.  Our two apple trees (a Fuji and an Anna apple) are planted and seem to be doing well.  Our tomatoes are producing fairly well, though we tied them up a bit late, so they look scraggly.  Peanut plants are getting larger.  They used to have flowers but now don't - this worries me since that's happened before, but we'll have to see how it goes.  Our watermelon plants (3 of them) are going insane, flowing off the garden bed and several feet out into the yard.  We have at least 3 watermelons so far, with the largest about the size of a large tomato (?).  Our strawberry plants (forgot a picture) have been branching out, the lettuce and snap peas have died off.  The tiny lentil plants are still growing, but not making much progress.  The grapes are a mixed bag - some are attached to the wire, while others haven't made it yet.  Blackberries are doing well, but need some grass trimming done soon.  In the back yard, our large Pecan tree is putting on leaves, but, despite us hearing about this being a fruiting year for pecans, we can't see any signs of fruit just yet.  The blueberry patch is doing ok in the dedicated peat moss bed.  Finally, the cacao seeds are rising up and starting to get tiny leaves inside.  I think we only have 2 that haven't picked up their seed heads so far.

Sorry for the wall of text; I write these in a hurry these days....














Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Illuminated frost protection

Going to be cold tonight, so to protect our recently planted watermelon and tomato seedlings and peanut seeds, which we planted last Saturday, we are trying Christmas lights under cover.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Tall seedlings

We're a bit worried about our super-tall tomato seedlings.  Hopefully they fill out a bit soon.
Also, we planted some Black Diamond watermelon seeds from Sustainable Seed Co today.