Baymule’s 2020 Garden

[Cosmo spring garden]

I planted Royal Golden Watermelons. Beautiful! Red meat, the rind turns golden when ripe. A no brainer! Yes! NOW I’ll know when they are ripe! Even the vines are pretty!!

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My very first one! I’m so proud of my beautiful watermelons!

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We cut it open, it was delicious. The only problem was so many seeds! So many that there are more seeds than melon! What a bummer. Not even worth eating the darned things. Phooey.

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I think what I’ve done is grow some lovely treats for the pigs, sheep and horses.

Bummer about the seeds but it sure is a pretty melon! Looks like a pumpkin lol.

 

[seedcorn]

Kids should enjoy the spitting of seeds. As a kid that was 40% of the fun.

 

[baymule]

As a kid I was warned by grownups not to swallow watermelon seeds because they would grow out my ears. Thinking how cool it would be to have watermelon hanging out my ears, I swallowed a lot of seeds. Alas, no watermelons ever grew out my ears.

 

[baymule]

This morning I pulled my Painted Mountain corn @thistlebloom. It has been raining, so I ran out to rescue it. Sure are lots of pretty colors! I have it tied in bunches, hanging from the porch rafters.

I picked tomatoes, long eggplant and Thai#2 long green beans.

Then I went back and picked Kentucky Wonder beans and Diamond eggplant.

 

[seedcorn]

YOu can’t let tomatoes ripen on vine?

 

[Carol Dee]

@baymule I see you are still growing the Thai long beans Bob was not happy with them. So he went back to planting Kentucky wonder.

 

[baymule]

YOu can’t let tomatoes ripen on vine?

Nope. Birds, bugs and a rabbit has found a way in. Oh and those nasty corn worms! I hate them!

 

[baymule]

@baymule I see you are still growing the Thai long beans Bob was not happy with them. So he went back to planting Kentucky wonder.

I have Kentucky Wonder beans too-for canning. The long beans are for fresh eating and give away.

 

[flowerbug]

@baymule, do you have a juicer? watermelon juice cold is good too! hate to waste a good melon. i'd also just have fun spitting out the seeds.

 

[Rammy]

I always plant Bush beans #247.