…it’s watermelon season!
We’ve been pulling in too many watermelons.
Fortunately, we’re having a lot of friends over this evening. Watermelon tasting night!
Ezekiel picked all these from the garden earlier this week:
That big one looked like this inside:
We’d thought the yellow genes might have disappeared. It was a pleasant surprise to see they’d endured.
This is the fourth year of crossing melons together to make a landrace, so there are a lot of potential genes in there.
The variations in shape, size and color are all part of the fun.
Using watermelons as the groundcover layer of the Grocery Row Gardens has worked quite well. We’re not getting last year’s yield of 740lbs, but are still getting plenty.
“Watermelons are the best fruit in the world,” Ezekiel says. I think he’s right.
I’ll be posting a new video on this landrace project over in The Survival Gardener community, so join up and watch for that.
Tomorrow we’ll have a live Zoom call where Rachel will discuss cooking the various exotic produce from our homestead and we’ll be taking questions. Hope to see you there.
You can have greener thumbs by this weekend!
3 comments
Totally awesome man! Hopefully we will get some too. Planted way too late but we’ll see what happens. They are on hyper fertile land so maybe that’ll speed them up. God willing some might ripen before it gets cold.
Go Ezekiel! I think he might be right also. Please pass on to him his landrace inspired me to read Joseph Lofthouse’s book and try my own. I’m in my first year of a cucumber and a snap bean landraces.
Thank you
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