Our first (edible) water melon

23.4#

Maybe 5# edible ? We had picked one a month or so ago and it was not ready but we were anxious. There are a couple more that are close to this size, one is actually older but hasn't gotten as big.

Still eating raspberries as I walk past, so far I remember to look for bugs :) That changes the flavor a little :)

I cut down a bunch of corn today and got it piled into the compost pile. I seem to be getting ahead of the compost pile, it is not composting faster than I can pile it on.

Strawberries are growing, strawberry plants are growing, shoots are shooting out. It is somewhere on my list to keep the strawberries within rows and transplant the ones that have anchored themselves outside of those 'rows.' When I walk past I try to train the shoots but that is not every week.

Kind of the like the blackberries. I try to train them to grow in their area, then we are gone and some have taken root on the top end of the plant.

Friday night I had clipped all the zucchini I could find. Today I found three more large, 1+ foot long ones. These ended up in the compost right away.

My wife wanted onion's for cooking tonight so I dug a couple of those and picked a couple of gypsy peppers, plus the 1st black bell that seemed to be dark enough. The two I dug were not 'big enough' so she came out and found a bigger one. What she grabbed was a red, what I had pulled was a Walla Walla. Usually the red's haven't been as big ... but it wasn't red either. ??

And the black pepper? Too much protein. Too much bug. We had to toss it.

Looked again at the largest tomatoes. There is a pile of rotting debris at the base of the plant. Plus a wad of rotting tomatoes part way up the plant. If I want to save the plant, I need to get both area's of rotting ones out of there.

And looked again for the pepper plant that was next to it. It is there. No peppers. The egg plant has pretty much fallen over it from the other side also.

When I was out in the yard later picking up grass piles from mowing, I was wheeling the clippings to the compost pile sort of looking down. When I looked up there were two deer standing in the neighbors yard right ahead of me. I was likely 25 feet from them when they ran. Ran right past the neighbor who was sitting with his back to them. Didn't think of my camera until I was to the compost pile.

Morning glories are growing good. Just took them a while to get going. And they need something closer together to climb on than 12 inch wide boards.