Watermelon update--whatever the foliage problem is, it doesn't seem to be spreading so I'm just ignoring it. That plant is going crazy, with tendrils running all over the place--some I'm guessing are up to 15 feet long! At last count there were 6 melons set, and one of them is almost ready to pick! I'm taking my chances here--what I know to do is check for the curly little tendril at the stem end to turn brown--but this melon doesn't have that little tendril! Oh no... so I'm waiting for the bottom to go from green to ivory. Hopefully I won't overshoot...
Then I get to find out what kind it is--planted both red (Early Arizona) and yellow (a Tohono O'odham variety whose name I can't recall OTTOMH), but only one out of the four came up, and I lost the tag saying which it was. So, a mystery abounds. Hopefully I'll be back in a day or two with pictures of dessert--and maybe an invite for Boo to come on down!
