I have an excellent movie playing in my head right now, just imagining this.Beansie_time wrote:I moved like a ninja across the garden and dispatched him with extreme prejudice.
That'd be a neat trickHe was crawling on the vine looking for a place to lay eggs.
Sheeshshe, you are soooo right! I just went out and checked mine, and the one vine grew 6" since yesterday. Hooray! Maybe, just maybe, I WILL get that watermelon I so desperately desiresheeshshe wrote:huh. my watermelons and minnesota midgets are going NUTS! I've tried planting watermelon in the past and they just die after they sprout. I started them indoors this year and they didn't really do anything for like a month and then one day they just went nuts. maybe yours are just waiting to do the same? one day they'll just decide to go crazy?
I'll have to try an Atlantic Giant next year. I grew Big Max last year, and I got a 60 pounder and a few 40+ pounders, despite my [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=198240#198240]squirrel troubles[/url] and late start.hockeymom519 wrote:My mother in law and my 4 year old wanted to try growing the Atlantic Giants this year.
One of my watermelons may have gotten the message, because it's beginning to send out a vine:TheWaterbug wrote:^^
Can you two please get your melons to talk to my melons?
They need some inspiration.
It has been a while since I grew banana squash. It seems that it is a mild flavored squash. Bright yellow flesh. The variety can sometimes get huge. You cut one and pass it around to the neighbors.how is the flavor of the banana squash? is it mild like a blue hubbard? or is it very squashy flavored like a butternut or acorn?
Way to go, Waterbug! Now it should go really quickly. My first one now has an 18" vine and its first tiny male flower bud. The others have all began vining. Yesterday, I watered them deeply for the first time, leaving a hose on trickle all day long. If I can get a pollinated female flower by the end of July, I will be very, very happyTheWaterbug wrote: One of my watermelons may have gotten the message, because it's beginning to send out a vine:
Thank you, although I must say I can't take all the credit for it. My teammates did a great job getting me the hose when I was open, and I was able to execute and put the seed in the hole.stella1751 wrote:Way to go, Waterbug!TheWaterbug wrote: One of my watermelons may have gotten the message, because it's beginning to send out a vine:
I hand-pollinated my first female pumpkin blossom this morning. It was very satisfying. For both of us. Seriously. Why would she lie to me?Now it should go really quickly. My first one now has an 18" vine and its first tiny male flower bud. The others have all began vining. Yesterday, I watered them deeply for the first time, leaving a hose on trickle all day long. If I can get a pollinated female flower by the end of July, I will be very, very happy
This is too funny. Not being a die-hard sports fan, it took me a while to figure out what in the Hades you were talking about when you credited your teammates for getting you "the hose when I was open." Once I got it, I laughed out loud. Good stuff! I can visualize you raising your arm way above your head, slamming that seed into the hole, and doing a TD dance in the side zone. Me, I bunted my seeds inTheWaterbug wrote:Thank you, although I must say I can't take all the credit for it. My teammates did a great job getting me the hose when I was open, and I was able to execute and put the seed in the hole.stella1751 wrote:Way to go, Waterbug!TheWaterbug wrote: One of my watermelons may have gotten the message, because it's beginning to send out a vine:
We did a lot of work in the off-season, and we're just glad to see it pay off. The SVBs are always a tough competitor, but my teammates and I gave 110% like we always do, and I'm grateful that we were able to come away with a victory. Like my old coach used to say, there's no "I" in "vegetable."
I hand-pollinated my first female pumpkin blossom this morning. It was very satisfying. For both of us. Seriously. Why would she lie to me?Now it should go really quickly. My first one now has an 18" vine and its first tiny male flower bud. The others have all began vining. Yesterday, I watered them deeply for the first time, leaving a hose on trickle all day long. If I can get a pollinated female flower by the end of July, I will be very, very happy