Gardens here get planted about mid May.
By the end of June most plants are well on the way . However, this year around the end of June I began noticing a plant that I thought I hadn't seeded. I knew it wasn't a weed. It looked like a cucumber plant but I didn't seed cucumbers. I didn't think it was a zucchini.
Fruit formed. It looked like cantaloupe but I didn't seed cantaloupe. As the fruit developed it became obvious that it was a cantaloupe. I was disappointed that the melons split and would not mature. I was surprised that they did as well as they did.
So how did cantaloupe seeds get in my garden. When we do a cantaloupe we throw the seeds in the compost. On one cantaloupe the seeds must have been mature enough the germinate. This has never happened before and we eat about one cantaloupe per month.
That was a fun discovery. Too bad they split and were not edible.
ReplyDeleteI guess that tells me why they're not grown her.
DeleteIt is a lot like my gourd story. The vine is from a seed that had to be two years ago because I have only been here one year. I hope the melons have time to develop and ripen for you.
ReplyDeleteThey'll never make it. Our growing season is almost over.
DeleteThat cantaloupe was a nice surprise. Too bad it wasn't edible but still fun to watch.
ReplyDeleteYes, I wish it could have matured.
DeleteSurprising to have a cantaloupe in de garden. Pity it split.
ReplyDeleteI suppose if I planted it in the house in March or April it might make it.
DeleteI have a cucumber on my back lawn where I threw one out! We can't compost due to the bears. It germinated late and wont produce anything. I mow around it.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty good...a cucumber in the grass.
DeleteI used to eat cantaloupe until that big scare a few years ago. Now I stick to other fruits and leave them alone. I suppose, though, if it grew in my own garden it wouldn't be likely to kill me. :-)
ReplyDeleteI will have to look up the big scare.
DeleteOne of the many surprises you get from a garden ...
ReplyDeleteI love watching my garden as much as anything.
DeleteI've heard of composted fruit or veg germinating. Nature is amazingly resilient. It's too bad the melons split!
ReplyDeleteI will have to find out why they split.
DeleteIt really is so interesting what grows from compost. This year in our garden we have volunteer tomatoes everywhere!
ReplyDeleteNow volunteer tomatoes are pretty cool!
DeleteThat is quite a surprise.
ReplyDeleteI'm always watching how things are developing and then something different shows up.
DeleteWhat a wonderful surprise, it's too bad it didn't mature.
ReplyDeleteMost melons you buy don't germinate as they are picked before the seed has a chance to mature.
DeleteThat was a fun surprise! Runaway seeds :)
ReplyDeleteLong ago when my family had wood stoves, we had an ash pile (I imagine you know what that is) and also discarded the vegetable trimmings next to it. More than once we found potato plants growing in the overlap zone!
ReplyDeleteHow cool that you grew a cantaloupe plant; it's a shame you didn't get a fresh cantaloupe out of it.
A nice surprise for you Red.
ReplyDeleteHello, what a nice surprise. It is sad that you were not able to enjoy the cantaloupe. Enjoy your day and weekend!
ReplyDeleteToo bad it wasn't any good...you could have discovered a whole new variety of cantaloupe:)
ReplyDeleteOh darn! What fun though!
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