Also made some 'refrigerator pickles' ala Oxner - (jelly jar in foreground).
They were so tasty {Thanks Bill!!}, I went ahead and canned a few quarts (background) for long-term storage!

My pleasure. That's what this thread is all about.

Edit. That's what THF is all about.

Where do you come up with the nice things you say?

Finally. Taste better than it looks. The jagged edges edges were caused by the watermelon popping wide open when I stuck the point of the knife in. You know the feeling when you cut a vine ripened watermelon. Going to make some my neighborhood children happy.

WooooooWeeeeee looks good Mr. Bill!!!!!

Yum!

Muffin and I are delivering a few today on my Gator.

nice gesture Mr. Bill!!! I've never been able to grow any type of melon

Have a neighbor who grows them every year. I tried a few years ago and got one lopsided melon. Tried again this year and got over a half dozen.

This was try first reply from a neighbor.


"Looks good, tastes great! Nearly popped open when I cut it. Thanks again!
Houston"

I will plant a different verity if I plant watermelons again. Theses were sweet enough but as much rind as meat.

I need to put a garden plan together because I can't grow chit. All I get are peppers and $100 squash and tomatoes.

I can go to the store and buy any produce except home grown tomatoes. I still plant cucumbers and peppers just to fill out my row. I no longer grow a fall garden. I just finished taking down my cages. Its at least 95° out there.

Where are you located?

Looks great Bill!

Rain. Just in time to soften up my garden and till it. Should be great foe an early of volunteer cilantro.

The sower came today. I will till this weekend. There are five gardeners in my subdivision. I took each one on them a spade full of my tilled soil. They also have fresh cilantro.

Send some of that moisture west.

The tiller started on the first pull. The soil was a little too gummy but I went ahead and tilled anyway. Pass the Benadryl cream please.

my tomatoes are still producing. The cherry tomatoes are really slowing down but the slicers are still producing but I can tell they are slowing down too. Harvest from last night.



my asparagus just keeps putting on ferns, no actual sprouts/heads. not sure what is going on with them.

Those big tomatoes are what I call cat face tomatoes. They are great on sandwiches. They cover the whole slice of bread.

I was looking for cilantro bur. took a peek and found little biddy cucumber plants. I had grown two differently verities. Won't know which one this one is until when or if it produces. I'm not too concerned. I can make more icebox pickles with either, or slice them, with some store bought vegetables for my marinated salad.

Speaking of melons, the ones we have bought this year have been very good. same for cantaloupes.

This is my favorite thread. I putt the dripper back on my volunteer cucumbers as you can see, they are doing fine. Plan to transplant to a couple of hills when and if we get a cool down.