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Slideshow below: The first honeydew and cantaloupe were planted on July 23, 2023. It has now been a 1.5 months and look at the fruit! These melons should mature at 1-3 pounds. The cantaloupe has stripes and the honeydew does not. The larger melons were the size of a peanut less than two weeks ago.

Below: Listen to the bees at work in this melon patch.

Below: The Mexican Sunflowers continue to reach for the sun. One of these plants is now almost ten feet tall. The flowers are much smaller than our regular sunflower, but there are a lot more flowers on these plants than the normal large sunflower.

This morning, Bruce harvested the second batch of summer corn. It is beautiful. However, this batch is not as sweet as “simply irresistible”. That variety is still our favorite. If we can find the kernels for Simply Irresistible, that will be what we plant in the Spring

Carrie Geier suggested we freeze the corn in the husk. We are going to try her way this time. That is, if there is any left to freeze after we give some to the family.

Two varieties of pumpkins were planted this summer. The smaller variety produced pumpkins up to ten pounds (Prince Edward hybrid). The larger variety (Gill’s Atlantic Giants) topped out at 90 pounds. We cooked both types and preferred the smaller pumpkins just slightly over the larger pumpkins because they seemed sweeter. After all the effort on the larger pumpkins, we decided these pumpkins would make good Fall decorations. I put them on the doorstep for my sisters and nieces to harvest. All of the larger pumpkins have now found a home. I am still waiting for pictures of these pumpkins at their front doors. Max got the last two pumpkins. We will have more of the smaller pumpkins in a month. There will be no more large pumpkins grown this year.

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