"Helping Hands" first watermelon
weighing in at 38 pounds!
When Harold and I talked "garden" on Monday, he said it would be another week before the watermelons would be ready. When he came into MadCAAP around noon on Wednesday, with this humongous watermelon, I was flabergasted and demanded a picture. Several other melons were unloaded, but none compared to this one. The youth group from Louisiana who'd been working with Harold in the garden, quickly added, ...and they are delicious!" HMMM...I wondered, just how to do they know? It seems that one watermelon in the field was split so these compassionate youth, not wanting to see any of our produce go to waste...volunteered to give the watermelon from our patch, a taste test... the less than perfect melon was pronounced, "THE BEST!"
We are also harvesting cantaloupe --- 44 at one time last week, along with squash, tomatoes, okra, cucumbers and a few peas. The pole beans at the north end of the garden have been replaced with a whole row of raised beds...getting prepped for turnip and mustard greens, winter squash and who knows what else.
We have a small group of awesome gardeners who are persevering in the midst of the summer HEAT! I pretty sure that Harold, Kermit, Carole, Carolyn, Shirley, Daniel and Sheila would welcome some new muscles and sweat-pertise to the crew.
