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#melons

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Tom

Picked a green flesh honeydew melon to test. The tendril was dried out but that's not saying much since most of the vines for these melons are not looking very good. The flesh was firm and green, the seeds looked full and mature, the taste was cucumber like.

I made refrigerator pickled melon. 1:1 apple cider vinegar and sugar just cold mixed. They taste pretty good but just about anything in this pickle juice would. 😁

A small very light green melon is held in a left hand. Behind it is the vines it came off of that look kind of sickly and are in the shade at 13:30 local time on this 14th of September, 2024.
A small square container with sliced up chunks of green flesh honeydew melon. They are in a liquid that is made from 1 cup of apple cider vinegar and 1 cup of refined white sugar.
#melons#honeydew#harvest
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Tom

Harvest for September 8, 2024.

3 Zucchini, 2 Muncher cucumbers, 2 little melons, and 3 Tangerine, 2 Amish Paste, 1 San Marzano, 9 Flamme tomatoes, and 1 tomatillo.

The smallest melon was good, the other was a bit over ripe and not good. These are the last of the small melons.

Fruits and vegetables displayed for record keeping. There are red and orange tomatoes, light green zucchini, some small netted skin melons, 2 green cucumbers, and one tomatillo in the husk.
#gardening#melons#tomatillo
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Tom

Additional harvest of a small musk melon, half of which is shown. Not sure if there is one plant that isn't actually a Minnesota midget or it's just it's location in the South end of the raised bed that is different but they are larger than the others and have taken longer to get ripe too.

I'm saving some additional seeds from these and will keep them separate from my initial batch I saved.

A cropped photo of a human hand holding half of a small orange fleshed melon that has been partially eaten and has a spoon sticking out of it. The author decided to document the melon as he was wandering around the yard eating it. The green rind with netting on the exterior is apparent on one edge. The background is a mowed lawn that does not meet any approval standards for an HOA.
A cropped photo of melon seeds on a paper towel that is in a bowl or dish shaped object. The paper towel has been written on with black marker, it says: "9-2 Big ✔️". That translates to the seeds being saved on the second of September 2024, they were from a big melon, and it tasted good. The writing is poor because the paper towel was supported by air while writing and the authors wrist sounds like rice crispies at times with it's snap crackle and pop. The seeds are light tan color.
#gardening#melons#MuskMelons
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Tom

September 1, 2024. About 10 cucumbers, 4 big Tangerine slicer tomatoes, a zucchini, and a handful of runner beans were picked. Here's some photos of some sultana grapes on one of the wild vines, a cluster of the tomatoes from saved Campari seeds, and a couple of overview shots of the garden.

A cluster of green grapes close to the ground still on the vine. The grapes are oval shaped and small. When dried they make raisins that are golden colored, or when sun-dried they make raisins that are purple colored or just dark.
A cluster of 7 tomatoes that are green. They are growing on a vine that is staked and tied up. They are starting to turn color as they ripen.
A view of half a garden area showing late season veg plants and flowers. There are blooming zinnia, marigold, sunflower, and hollyhock flowers. There are cucumber vines with yellowing leaves, melons in a raised bed that are fading as the fruit ripens, zucchini and squash closest with good looking foliage, dark green runner beans on a trellis in the distance with bright scarlet red flowers, and way beyond near the upper right many sunflowers that are very tall. Blue sky with clouds and very dry hills in the distance.
The other half of the garden. Winter acorn squash plants and watermelon and honeydew melon in the middle with the tops of some of the potato plants in bags in the foreground and tomatoes in the background with the sunflowers mentioned beyond those. There are many hollyhocks on the left that have went to seed. The far corner on the right of the fenced area had two large pots with marigolds. The raised bed at the far fence has marigolds and zinnias on the edge in front of the tomatoes.
#gardening#grapes#tomatoes
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Tom

The harvest for August 23, 2024.

7 Marketer and 6 Muncher cucumbers, 9 little musk melons, 2 zucchini, and 1 extra Marketer cucumber was retrieved.

Very few of these melons taste very good since the weather cooled but the chickens don't mind.

Cooler weather also means the tomatoes can ripen on the plants so a couple of days break from picking those.

A pail of prickly cucumbers and a pail of smooth cucumbers and two zucchini.
A 1020 tray that has 9 small yellow musk melons in it and 1 prickly cucumber.
#gardening#melons#zucchini
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