Update: My Daughter's Melons

The last time I made a post about my younger daughter's garden I mentioned that we were SICK of cucumbers, but that we had no signs of life AT ALL on the watermelon vines we were growing. A month and a half later, and things have changed quite a bit.

First of all, the cucumbers are GONE. We have one left in our refrigerator drawer, but the cuke vine shriveled up about four weeks ago and they're all gone. All said and done, we ended up with about 60 or so cucumbers, and we ended up eating about 40 or so of those ourselves.

The watermelon, meanwhile, finally started growing. I actually told Natalie that I was ready to give up on the watermelon, and I was going to pull up the vines because no melons were coming and they were growing into everything else, even making their way across the sidewalk and into our neighbor's yard, and through the fence and into the back yard. So I went to pull them up, but there was a single melon, about the size of my thumb, growing. And we finally picked that melon yesterday. And there are more on the way.

Here are some photos.