Race Against The Clock! Grow, Garden, Grow!!
After 2 weeks of cold and rain, the sun is back. I'm happy, the garden is happy. Question is... will there be enough time left for everything to grow and ripe before fall sets in?
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Even though I've been in a lot of pain these last 2 weeks, I visit my garden daily. It has been a slow year, but it seems the garden has plans to make up for that. My 2 melon plants have been growing beautifully, but I had kind of given of hope: I didn't expect them to start growing fruits anymore.
It wasn't until about 10 days ago that I spotted the little melons you can see in the picture above. Aren't they the cutest??The fun part is that you can almost literally séé them grow; every day, they're a little bigger than the day before.
Now, of course, I wouldn't be me if I would have labeled them correctly. I know one of them is a pineapple melon. The other one? Your guess is as good as mine, lol.
Not that it is of any importance... I love garden surprises!!
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I do hope life will give me the chance to find out how they taste. To grow big and strong, they need a lot more sunshine and heat. Unfortunately, if there's one thing we can't rely on in our little country, it's the weather. For the next couple of days, it seems a lot of sun is coming our way - but we might just as well go back to the same weather we experienced in the last two weeks: clouds, cold and rain that seems to never end.
I guess I just need to keep my fingers crossed...
Crossing fingers too!
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Oh I hope you have better luck with your melons! We had some growing that were looking good when they were wee little bitty, but then they were attacked by worms and the plant pretty much died off. At least we have some fantastic-looking butternuts growing strong to make up for it. Can't wait to see what you end up with!
Ooh... what a shame!
Good luck with the butternuts.
Our squash isn't doing that great. A couple are growing, but the one that is almost ripe is smaller than our Coeur De Boeuf tomato, hahaha
Oh, that is tiny! Our first few were pretty petite, but one that is growing right now is quite large! I'll share a picture when we pluck it off the vine. :)
Still few more weeks before the sun is hiding behind the clouds, I hope your cute melons will grow bigger and never heard about pineapple melon, I wonder how it looks like, the flesh and the taste. Though I can imagine that from your excitement that you shared here... Good luck and taking a walk at the garden everyday will relieve some pain on your back too.
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Pineapple melon is supposed to smell like pineapple. I have no idea about the taste, however... 😉
Best of luck. There was a bit of a chill in the air out our way. Leaves are starting to change... Hope you get the sun for a good amount of time.
Thanks. If I can believe the weather forecast, it will be 30°C again by the end of the week. I hope it lasts a bit 😉
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Fingers crossed they ripen before it gets too cold. I'm always terrible when it comes to timing my watermelon plantings and they don't start setting fruit until summer is nearly over, then they don't ripen in time.
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I'm afraid that's gonna be the case here too. I hope the melons will be a little like watermelons. You can keep those inside to ripe further for a pretty long time...
Happy gardening to you, and I hope your pain disappears immediately :>)
Thanks, @angryman. I've been hoping that for more than a year now, lol
Keep the faith...and stay in the garden, it's such a healing activity. Well...you might not want to stay in the garden if it gets too rainy, windy and cold....but, you probably know what I meant :>)
Lol, I do. And you're absolutely right. It ís a healing activity... about the only thing that gives me peace of mind.
I have a name for the other melon, why not just call it simply, Mike? 😉
Hope they grow to the size you want them too, perhaps some psytrance would help them be stimulated in to action 😁
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It's definitely worth a try, I think
Sending positive thoughts to your garden may the weather be ideal and you get to harvest some of your crops ;)
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It looks good:)
I had never seen such beauties.