Saturday, August 23, 2008
Big as a soccer ball
Two weeks ago, my garden-weary husband came into the house all excited. " Guess what? I found a watermellon", he shouted. He had planted a couple of watermellon seeds that someone had given him and they had produced big vines but so far no watermellon. "It's as big as a walnut", he continued. Oh great! That's going to be fun eating a walnut sized watermellon. But the next day he reported, "Now it's as big as a golf ball". The next day it had graduated to a tennis ball and then a grapefruit. Finally, two weeks later it had grown to soccer ball size. "This I've got to see", says I and, sure enough, he was telling the truth. I can't believe that a watermellon could grow that fast but there it was. Very interesting! Last night he came running in with a report of a sighting of two more walnuts. Does this guy have too much time on his hands, or what?
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3 comments:
That's exciting. My watermellons died before they got in the ground. My neighbor gave me three or four seedlings with "walnuts" already on them but they didn't take. We sure have had a lot of tomatoes though. I wish you were here to help eat them. We are turning them all into salsa.
This made me laugh outloud. I can just imagine grandpa doing that and being so excited about it! How fun though, I need to come stay a few days soon, there better be a juicy watermelon waiting for me :)
Wow! Your watermelons are doing better than ours. We have oranges--no soccer balls, yet.
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