By john
The watermelons are coming along nicely. They are about the size of a large grapefruit and growing rapidly. All told there are seven of them.
By john
Watermelons appear to be right on schedule. I found lots of male blossoms and multiple female blossoms and several baby melons are now growing. Sure wish I knew what variety I planted. Weather has been good for melons this week, mid-80s with moderate to high humidity and thunderstorms every three days or so. Rain barrels are full, life is good.
By john
Just a few photos of our water and musk melons. Both are just waiting for the weather to get into the 80s. We’ve had a few warm days but mostly it’s been cooler and a little rainy. You can see the musk melons already have blossoms. Last year at this time most of my watermelons had been nipped off by either bunnies or cutworms. This year I made sure to put row covers over them until they were large enough to survive a few nips here and there.
By john
It’s been an interesting year so far on the watermelon front. I direct seeded Congo and Crimson Sweet about 5 weeks ago, one hill each with 7 seeds. Five of the Congo sprouted and now have their second set of leaves. However, only one of the Crimson Sweet sprouted and this morning I discovered that something had nipped it off at the stem. So no Crimson Sweet this year. Obviously I picked up a bad batch of seeds (Burpee take note!). Luckily, my wife also started a bunch of Moon & Stars and had several that had gone unplanted; so now we have two mounds of Moon & Stars. Let’s hope we can keep the cucumber beetles off of them.
The watermelons are coming along nicely. They are about the size of a large grapefruit and growing rapidly. All told there are seven of them.
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