Garden Update - Cantaloupe

Volunteer Cantaloupe

This year we are growing cantaloupe. It was not our first choice of things to plant. As the matter of fact, it was not our choice to plant it at all.

Cantaloupe Origin. Our best guess is that we ate a cantaloupe over the winter, unusable parts were put into the compost bin and turned to soil, in the spring we put the soil in the garden, and the cantaloupe sprouted. To avoid getting 'weeded' the cantaloupe disguised itself as a cucumber plant and grew among the cucumbers.

The Result: We harvested our first 2 cantaloupes, and there are 3 more big ones on the vine. Yummy.

RJ hauls the cantaloupe #2 back to the house

Here are the first 2 cantaloupes (one was partially eaten by ants) and Sara's prize tomato