🍉 This year I will be growing Watermelon again on the WizStead Post #6

in homesteading •  7 years ago  (edited)

There is nothing better than
biting into a slice of home grown watermelon
and the juice running down your chin...

  • knowing you're getting rewarded
    for planting those seeds
    about 80 days before...
    • keeping them weeded, watered and fertilized
      • which is waaaay easier if you mulch like I do...

This one was 31 pounds! Wowzer

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  • Sorry, I lied...
    • watching your mom
      who is watching your grandson
      bite into a slice of a 31# home grown watermelon
      and the juice running down his chin...
      • That's even better!

QT & Granny watermelon.jpg

It doesn't get any better than that!!!

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I will be working on some watermelons and some cantaloupe in my garden this year too. Hope my watermelons look as good as that on did.

That one was a dandy. One of the biggest I've ever grown. I like those sugar babies since they fit in the frig so easy.

  • Hale's best cantaloupe work good for me.
    • those gurney giant cantaloupe really are...

Good luck!

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Do you mortals have electramelon down there?

My favorite!

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Wow, 31# watermelon! That is an accomplishment. We have never had much luck with watermelons, they usually turnout very small. This year we are going to do a few things differently, so maybe we will have better luck in the future. Great Job!

Thanks @knowledge-seeker!
I did grow this on a bit of a hill, letting the vines go downhill.
I put down black plastic and straw on top of that.
I did let just that one grow on that vine.

  • I don't normally get them that big. Just lucky that year?
    The others that year weren't near that big.