I had left my square foot garden to fend for itself. I removed all the mini corn stalks, dying strawberry plants and left the one semi-healthy watermelon plant in the middle. It had been weeks if not a months since I had even looked at it. I was SHOCKED to see it growing so well and practically taking over the plant area. I planted in May I believe and it’s now October in the first three pictures. Not only was the plant HUGE, but there were two, count ‘em, 2! watermelons growing. WOW!
Then in early November, they were even bigger! I’d like to say I helped, but my helping was to not do anything and let the plan thrive on it’s own.
For Jeff’s birthday (after getting lots of advice from Lisa – her parents are melon farmers), we finally decided to pick them. The weather had been extremely cold (in the 40’s) so I didn’t want to ruin them by leaving them in the cold. This was our harvest!
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