Mama Kat Thursday: Fruit of the Vine
The Mama Kat blog prompt topic for today is, "Share the fruits of your labor from your garden this year." My garden isn't new, though it was newly walled in with a couple rows of castle wall block this year. That certainly helped keep the melon vines in and the Box Turtles out. (Box Turtles will enjoy your ripe melons before you will, if you didn't know.) My garden patch has been taken over by melon vines. The sudden change from humid summer to dry fall weather has given all the melon vines a second wind and has spurred fresh growth. Water them with a little Epsom Salts didn't hurt either. (The potassium in Epsom Salts helps them fruit.) The pictures below were both taken today: First Picture: A ripening Canary type "Amy" Melon. I should be able to harvest it sometime later this weekend. I'm working on a Honeydew we bought right now. The white dust is Sevin dust. It's there to keep Cucumber beetles away. Nasty buggers bore into ...