WE HAVE WATERMELLONS!

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I cannot believe that this worked!
A co-worker had brought a nice watermelon for all of us to enjoy last Friday and it was SO sweet!
Instead of spitting out the seeds, I collected them and put them in a zip-lock bag filled with water to try them in my back yard.
I have read a lot of online tips about growing watermelon, and I decided to grow the seeds MY way instead of all of the stuff that I have read..
One thing that any new seed needs is good soil to seed contact, so I prepared an area about 2ft x 2ft with 5 lbs of earthworm castings and 1 lb of Texas green sand because that was all that I had laying around.
Another tip that I picked up was that only 1 inch of mulch will lower the soil temperature by 10 deg. during a major heat-wave like we are having.
The seeds were planted 1/2 inch below the amended soil and I spread 1 inch of shredded native tree trimmings mulch over them.
Today, they broke through the mulch and look very healthy:

This is AWESOME! I might actually have some “fall melons”!
We’ll see what happens!
N2O

• 21 Jul, 2011
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