AndyS wrote:
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I haven't come up with a good disguise for watermellons yet, tho.

This technique works best for vegetables that need to be picked
regularly, and whose fruits are not observable from the street....

An exception is Swiss Chard, which is "Romanian Fern"...... It makes
a good border plant.......

Good luck, and if you come up with something for watermellons,
please publish it .....

love the imagery! quite funny.
must try swiss chard sometime
as it makes great wraps for
salads and i adore it cooked
too.

a green wig with fake spikes
sticking out of it to make it
look like a cactus? stand it
up on the end on a similarly
colored and spiked fake holder
so the end doesn't break the
stem. instant presto, cactus
lawn ornament.

ok, that was my second idea.
the first was taking a wooden
box and putting a slot in one
end that the stem can go through
and enough holes in the sides for
air circulation. put it over the
watermelon and then put a potted
cactus over it. this is texas you
might as well go with something
that can take the heat... people
won't even notice the change
before and after the harvest.

if you grow things up trellis
you could paint them orange
and call them religious decorations
for All Saints Day. that way they
can't bust you because it's a
religious discrimination thing.


songbird