…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.