Thursday, September 3, 2009

Our truck-bed runneth over...


This is after we had already picked and ate and gave away about 30-40 watermelons.

We also picked and gave away and ate and froze and made jam from more than 60 mushmelons. Unfortunately, the racoons totally destroyed a large amount of mushmelons that were left.

We were going to pick them the next day to give away and/or sell.

There are more watermelons in the patch that need to be picked in the next few days, soon as all the hay is baled and put up in the barn.

3 comments:

  1. what a wonderful pic- how plentiful!wish I were closer...
    Karen

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  2. Here in the mountains of the West, we are lucky to get one lonely watermelon the size of a softball! We have to view our yearly attempt as an experiment, rather than a sure bet... right now, our little experiment looks more like a ping-pong ball than a watermelon, but it might grow more, right? :)

    Enjoy your abundance!

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  3. That's a great photo and an awesome crop of melons. I grew up on a dairy farm and my dad was really into gardening, so we had huge gardens to tend. One of the summer's gems I liked the best was watermelon, warm and juicy from the sun.

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