We are still getting peppers and a few cherry tomatoes out of the garden. We get a late spring harvest then the plants estivate and then we get a smaller fall harvest. One of the bright spots is the watermelon plant. Sabrina's class sprouted watermelon seeds in May, and they got to take their sprouts home. So I planted the sprout in my garden where it was shaded so it could survive the summer. It produced three pretty good sized watermelons. One got eaten by critters and one split open after a big rain. The third one though we just harvested today. It is about 12 pounds and is a beauty. We will eat it tomorrow and give an update on how it turned out. I would have liked to wait a little longer to bring it in, but we are supposed to have a thunderstorm tonight and I didn't want to take a risk of it splitting.
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