[PaulF]

This week I picked three Blacktail Mountain and four Orangeglo watermelons. The Blacktails were very sweet as usual, but the Orangeglos surpassed expectations. The largest weighed in at 42 lbs and the smallest was 35 lbs. Either I have been craving watermelon or it was the best tasting watermelon ever. I ate (my wifehad a little slice) half of the 42 pounder and shared with my wife's sister and her family the other half. One I gave to a friend who was going to take it to a church picnic and the other two went to a local nursing home where my wife and I volunteer as groundskeepers/gardeners. I hope the old ladies liked orange fleshed watermelon.

There are 6-8 Blacktails and 5 or 6 Orangeglos on the ground not yet ripe. I think there is still enough time. I also planted Sweet Siberian, but have only seen one melon and it was tasteless. The muskmelons, Golden Gopher and Pride of Wisconsin were excellent and plentiful with several left to harvest in the coming weeks.

So far a very good year.