Favorite Pastimes
Watermelon Delight
What tastes more like summer than a succulent, rosy-red watermelon? I managed to grow this all-organic watermelon two summers ago. But it wasn't easy. Our first small ones became food for the rabbits. We planted a couple more and they actually flowered. Then they started getting crowded out by the pumpkins, and we had to move one plant into the yard. The fruits never got bigger than about five inches across, but that was the best watermelon I ever ate.
This looks like the juciest watermelon in the whole world!
ReplyDeleteYum!
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a poem I heard a long time ago:
ReplyDeleteDuring that summer--
Which may never have been at all;
But which has become more real
Than the one that was--
Watermelons ruled.
Thick imperial slices
Melting frigidly on sun-parched tongues
Dribbling from chins;
Leaving the best part,
The black bullet seeds,
To be spit out in rapid fire
Against the wall
Against the wind
Against each other . . .
Cool...makes my mouth water!
ReplyDeleteHow delightful!
ReplyDeleteYou did a nice job growing the watermelon.
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