July is melon month!

So our melons have been coming on strong during the past week. We have picked all of our Suger Baby watermelon (about 5 of them), and we have so far harvested 8 cantaloupe. The Suger Babies were a little bit overripe, but still delicious. The cantaloupe have been very good as well, although I have learned that you really need to let them sit around a couple days before you eat them, or else they are crisp like a sweet potato instead of chin-dripping gooey like you want a cantaloupe to be.

The bottom picture shows the reason that cantaloupe from the store usually aren't very good--RIPE CANTALOUPE ARE YELLOW!!! All of those green things at the store aren't even worth the time to look at. When they turn yellow like this they literally fall off the vine and are perfect.

After this we should have about another half-dozen cantaloupe, followed by a half-dozen Tennessee Rattlesnake Watermelon which are still growing.