"Billy" wrote in message news:wildbilly-

Allen, Farm1 is in NSW Australia.

:-)) You remembered!

Her weather is the equivalent of our
August. She wants her melons to ripen,

........and today I harvested the first one. Not having ever grown them
before, I wondered if they were ripe when you knocked on them. The one I
harvested knocked beautifully but it wasn't quite ripe. It was tasty and
certainly had a good watermelony flavour, but I think another week or so
would have been better. Not to worry, my grandkids will scoff it down
anyway.

I've also got 2 different types of ripe plums (well prunes really but I've
never really known what the difference between the plums and prunes is
supposed to be- these are both officially 'prunes'), ripe apples and strawbs
and zucchs and the basket I took to my offspring's place full of garden
goodies looked gorgeous with a dozen eggs added along with some herbs and a
few other things that I now can't bring to mind.