Those melon types sound good to me. I am picturing in my hear a huge field full of vines crawling all over. I do hope that you have the time to get some foto's when they ripen. I am curious.
Was going to try to take some pics today but had my great granddaughter for the past week and can`t do anything with a 6 year old in tow. Will do it tomorrow. Our garden may be a little unconventional but it has to be with coyotes around and the Texas summers. Coyotes love watermelon. But I have a system to outwit them.
LOL ! Outwitting the coyotes is not hard. They can smell when watermelons are ripe. So all I do is block the smell. I go to the Dollar store and get several bottles of the stinkiest after shave and a bottle of the old Listerine mouth wash. Then in a spray bottle I put about three good squirts of the after shave and an ounce or so of the mouth wash, a squirt of dish soap and fill with water. Then I spray every melon in the field as well as the grass, weeds, vines ect. I just walk through and spray. Haven`t lost a melon in four years to coyotes,,year before that they wiped me out in one night. We have a lot of coyotes. I can`t get too mad at them because they keep the mole and gopher population down and they really don`t bother anything. Just wish they didn`t like watermelons. They do not eat cantaloupe. And that's odd. I couldn`t get a pic of the field, too many weeds and vines so just took a few pics. And finally found out that the little green mystery melon is the Desert King heirloom melons I ordered. Bought some last year that were supposed to be Desert King but looked just like Jubilee. And I think that they were Jubilee. The little seed store here has a habit of giving the wrong seed and plants. Now the other two will not load. Guess I will try them tomorrow. I am going to bed. yellow ( photo / image / picture from mart's Garden )
What an original way to combat coyotes. They say that "necessity is the mother of invention". --Well done, you! That melon looks awfully good to me. Too bad the other pics wouldn't upload last night...I hope that you have better luck today. How frustrating that the seed store there gives the wrong seeds sometimes. I can get wound-up about such things. hahaha.
Mart, we spotted two melons about the size of tennis ball today on wines started from seeds sent by you. Yay!
