Melon Mania

I'm a little frightened by my garden and I blame it on vegetable seed packets which are liars. Chris picked out a packet of "cool melon" seeds for our garden and I planted them in May. I followed the instructions which said to plant one every 3-4". The instructions said NOTHING about thinning out the seedlings which Chris and I both found a bit odd. My mother-in-law was over one night shortly after the melons sprouted and said we would need to thin them. I did pull every other one because I was already starting to get a bit scared of them. Every other one was definitely not enough! They're trying to take over my garden!! Do you see all those little yellow flowers? Those are future melons my friends and I have no clue what we're going to do with 200 melons. Give them away to every man, woman and child we encounter, I suppose.

The biggest one is slightly larger than a walnut right now so it's probably going to be awhile before we get to try one out. I hope they're good since we'll soon have enough for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

In the non-scary gardening department, our purple beans are doing very well. Disappointing to both Chris and me, they don't stay purple when you cook them! Our snap peas have been most unproductive. I think maybe we planted them too late in the season which is sad because I love snap peas. We picked our first cucumber earlier this week and I think we're up to three now. We'll probably have enough of those for breakfast, lunch and dinner soon too.