For spring break this year, which was mid March, the gardening bug first nibbled. I headed off to Lowes in search of seeds and seedlings. I picked up some tomatos seedlings...cuke seeds, bush bean seeds, okra seeds then decided i needed to get a few bell pepper plants. Then i saw an okra display with these beautiful looking plants. They were 3.50 each but i really love okra so I thought this plant might start giving me veggies a few weeks before the seeds, so i grabbed one. After getting home and putting in all my plants and seeds on closer observation of the BEAUTIFUL okra plant i read the lil plastic plant info and it didn't say okra....it said WATERMELON. Oh well (i know who can't tell the difference between an okra and a watermelon plant...apparently ME) so I did some googling on watermelons and found a spot for it in my flower beds. At first it didn't do so well keeping only the 3 or 4 leaves it came with but as soon as the weather warmed up it TOOK OFF! And we ended up with 3 watermelons. One split after we had a TON of rain and it wasn't quite all the way ripe but the girls and i ate it anyways it was pretty good. We still have the other two on the vine and are waiting for the vine to yellow off indicating they are READY ....here are a couple of pix one from June 11 and one from July 13.
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