Friday, September 14, 2012

Mad for Melons

 
We love watching them grow in SIPs...and eating them too. Above, Tigger on the vine.

 Golden Midget (1 3/4 lb), Tigger (1 1/2 lb), Renee's icebox rainbow sherbet (1 1/8 lb)


Such pretty interiors, and sweetly flavorful too. The Tigger was loaded with seeds.

We dutifully washed and dried to save them all for next year. Imagine how precious if this were your only sugar source.



4 comments:

Debbie said...

H2, So good to see your successful melon harvest! How did the Tigger melon taste? It looks like the picture on the seed package. Love the bright colors!

H2 said...

Tigger was quite tasty, but proportion of seeds to interior meat was a bit high. Wondering if that's typical or just our result.

Green Zebra Market Garden said...

Unless you hand-pollinated your melon flowers (and covered them after pollination), your seeds may be cross-pollinated. You could end up with some surprises next year...which could actually be pretty fun!

H2 said...

Agree about fun melon surprises, GZMG. We don't hand-pollinate but have been reliably happy with the outcome. Thanks for writing...