Janosik Watermelon

Finally, our watermelon is ready. We picked our first one just the other day. Oh my! It is the best yellow watermelon I've ever tasted. 

I really don't think there's going to be any left by tomorrow. Hopefully another one will be ready soon. I think I have a cantaloupe almost ready too! I'll definitely be saving seeds from these. 

 

Rareseeds.com's description, "80 days. Yellow-fleshed Polish variety. Oblong fruits to about 10 lbs. The extra sweet, yellow flesh is lovely in contrast with the dark green rinds. Crisp and delicious! Beautiful, uniform fruit and one of the best eating bright yellow types!" 
http://www.rareseeds.com/janosik-watermelon/

Sweet Corn

The other day, Ryan and I harvested two rows of corn. We thought we had harvested at just the right time for sweetness, but soon realized something was wrong...ants!  I hate ants, but they seem to love me. Of course, we both got online to see what does ants in your organic garden mean, well, it means aphids. Evidently ants are a warning sign that you have aphids. 

We've been working to get the aphids under control since. 

 

We cleaned and shucked our harvest, cooking one of the ears to try it out. Man was it good corn. Even though the aphids made our harvest about half of what we would've gotten without them, we stuck with our plan of prepping the remaining corn for freezing. We will test out how tasty it is with freezing in a few weeks. 

We still have much to learn about corn, and all our plants, and the critters and insects that like to eat them.  We have learned so much in the last year since we began this endeavor. 

Strawberry Plants

 

Ryan propagating our strawberry plants. We have 12 plants from the 2 we started with. 

Spring Planting

Today Ryan and I planted our second planting in the garden. We are not sure yet if our first planting took since nothing has sprouted yet. We dug up one of the potatoes to check and it seems to have sprouted. Maybe we are just a bit anxious. 

Ryan did most of the muscle work today, while I planted some free seeds that were included in the fall order from rareseeds.com. If all goes well, I'll have some beautiful Love in a Mist flowers. I planted two large containers for the sitting area that we are planning by the garden. 

We stopped by the local Home Depot and picked up a dwarf peach tree to plant in a container. On the way back home, we stopped at the local nursery and I picked out 5 more herbs to add to the herb garden. I now have another Rosemary plant, two varieties of lavender, fennel, and chives. 

Our day was wonderful, browsing the garden areas together, picking out plants, planting food for us to eat, and situating our container herb garden. Our breezeway sitting area is shaping up nicely. Hopefully we will be able to sit and relax and enjoy our beautiful plants together soon. 

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