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Mini watermelons
"songbird" wrote in message
... Farm1 wrote: ... .......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 would like to hear more "how to tell a melon is ripe" descriptions... :-)) So would I! since i've not grown them it would come in handy. 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'), for me prunes have always been dried plums. The varieties I have (Robe de Sargent and D'Agen) are both sold here as prunes but since prunes come from plums I guess it is like you say probalby just a case of if they are dried or not. Either way, they are very tasty. 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. nice to hear about green, growing and ripe when i'm looking at snow... today it is supposed to rain and get warmer again. after -3F the other night i'm ok with that. Yes, I can imagine. Those storms in the NE of the US look diabolical. I think after seeing the pics that I'd even prefer stinking heat and bushfires over those sorts of conditions any day. |
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