I bought an unidentified "melon" plant last year from a garden center and it was in a potted raised garden I was
experimenting with and simply TOOK OFF! It was crawling out of the pot and moving across the yard like squash! It was putting out the most beautiful huge yellow blooms and I had 3 melons starting to grow when I thought I was smarter than Mother Nature Herself and decided they needed a "Boost" I sprayed some misted Miracle Grow for flowering plants and I thought that they would get HUGE...They shriveled up and DIED! I managed to salvage the melons and while not ripened fully, had a decidedly sweet exotic flavor! I salvaged the seeds and this year, I came up with this bright idea. I made this trellis like runner from spare wood in my garage and some nylon string. I'm going to let them come out of the pot again and NO EXTRA JUICE this time. There used to be an above ground pool in the area I picked and aftyer good rains, it holds the water for a couple of days so I know the mystery melon will have plenty of moisture and holding it's little blooms in the air, in theory, it should lay me down some pretty melons for me to identify! The center bar is a piece of half inch water pipe with gutter spikes holding the string like a guitar in case they get heavy and droop...I can raise the center PVC to accomodate the streched string! I'll keep everyone posted and maybe someone knows what exactly they are! Best to me! JL
Thanks for y'alls interest, I'll keep a pix dialogue going and to the winner goes the un-spoiled slice!
According to the "Co-Intellagence Institute" ...Dialogue can at times be truly magical, dissolving the boundaries between us and the world and opening up wellsprings of realization and resonant power. C'mon Lucky #3!!!
JL
Very clever! Hopefully the plants will return the favor for all your hard work. I'm flying in to Richmond July 1. I'll check it out from the air. I lived by the radio station up on Church Hill when I was a kid. I heard it is not the same place it used to be....? Good luck with all your projects!
Have a safe trip, I sure miss my fresh Key Limes...we had a tree just outside our door and wifey makes the most fabulous pies (with Splenda!!)
JL
To funny...I just sent my Mother a Splenda cookbook for Mother's Day!!...Lived in the closest house to the radio station. It was 3 times as long as it was high. Very old and neat place. All set in Richmond. We are headed to my hometown Fredericksburg for a couple of days then over to the Chesapeake for some blue crabs and family. I do appreciate the nice gesture.
JL
Have a swell weekend, we're getting lots of rain lately, I think my treasures are fixin to latch onto the string and day now...I'll get pix when the sun shines again...they're about swimming tonight!
Heat wave's supposed to be over in a day or so...80 degrees high this Friday coming! YAY! 104 here today!
Best wishes,
Stay cool!
Raining intermittantly here today after a no-winded wet wollop last night! Overnight the lawn's from tan to green...I started to comment that it was like living in the Kalahari but from what I've heard, they are in a dangerous drought now with record low water levels! Same as Amazon...I may ...»