On Tuesday morning, I went out to the garden to check on things again and found this on my watermelon plant.
Later that evening, I stood visiting with Chick while she cleaned up some weeds around the pumpkin plants before I started the sprinkler to water the garden. Hubby came out as she finished up and headed inside. I showed him how to tell which was which.
Lo and behold, between the two of us, we found at least 5 more growing. 5!!
I don't honestly know if I like watermelon THAT much but no matter. Let those babies grow away!
After doing some weeding Wednesday morning, I went inside to cool down for a while. When I went back out, I had a little paintbrush in hand. I tried to make sure each of them would make a watermelon by hand pollinating them.
Afterwards, I went over to the cucumber figuring I'd do a little better job with the paintbrush than I had with my hands when I found it the other day but didn't have time to go find a new paintbrush.
Well, there's quite a few cucumber females on there too. I had only found one the other day. So I did my best to hand pollinate them as well.
So, now, in addition to visions of corn and pickles in my future, I also foresee watermelon. Maybe my tomatoes will kick in to gear and I can add spaghetti sauce to that. Hey, hey!
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