I lost two of my watermelons today. Too hot too soon. The plants only got about five hours of full sun, but it was enough to torch them. So nine becomes seven. That's the breaks of growing your own. They were both Saskatchewan. I'm not sure what I'm going to replace them with. I have a few leftover watermelon starts, but they are not very robust. I have a good lineup of mixed melons ready for planting over the next few days, so I might just drop of couple of those in the kill zone.
I bought a Piel de Sapo melon at the grocery store tonight. They labeled it as a Santa Claus melon, even though common vernacular is Christmas melon. I grow the Lambkin variety. It was only 69 cents a pound.
Below is a photo taken today of the first sunflower at the community garden where I garden. Not just the first one in my plots, but the first anywhere at the site. It's like bringing in the first bale of cotton. Makes me proud. But it came at a cost, just like the first bale of cotton in "Places in the Heart." The sunflower has been sucking nutrients out of the ground, so an Early Girl tomato I planted behind it is quickly going the way of the dodo ... or Saskatchewan watermelons in my backyard.
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| The half-moon is on high. |
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