Melon Monday

Yesterday was a great day to get out and check out the garden. It was also a weeding day, but I hate weeding - let's focus of the fun stuff. Most of the exciting stuff is happening with the melons. However, first things first. Do you see what I see?



Yep. It's a red tomato! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will return in a couple days. If it makes it to the house, I may even slice it. :)

And, now back to the melons! The watermelon keep growing wonderfully and vary in size. For the ones we can see, we counted 11 melons yesterday.

Some look like this (or even smaller):



Others look like this:



The watermelon are the most popular garden topic for my husband. He cannot wait for them to ripen!

In other melon news, we also see cantaloupe forming (on the other side of the garden). These are not as exciting for my husband, but they are incredibly exciting for me! I love cantaloupe. They look weird, but I think will eventually plump and round out a little.

Small cantaloupe:



Probably the biggest one we have right now:



There will be no entries on "What To Do" with watermelon or cantaloupe. The simple answer is "eat it"!