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Mini watermelons
In article , "Farm1"
wrote: "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. If I remember correctly, Bill Who Putters, once said if the melon sounds like your head when you tap it, it's not ripe. If it sounds like your stomach when you tap it, it's over ripe, but if it sounds like your chest when you tap it, it IS ripe. Maybe once Bill Who Putters digs himself out of the snow, he'll respond. -- Welcome to the New America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg or E Pluribus Unum Next time vote Green Party |
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