I'm so excited about my first melons that I have to share more update pictures. Look at this little fuzzy melon! It's still small but I don't know how strong the vines are so it got its little hammock this week. I've started going out with a paintbrush to help the melons along, so there are a few more that I think have "taken". For the record, pumpkin flowers are early risers but melon flowers are lazy - they don't seem to open until the sun is on them so I've had to do my rounds twice a day.
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The pumpkin vine is doing something weird. One of the branches is wilting during the day. You can see here that it looks like it's about to cark it.
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But by the evening it recovers. I noticed today that about halfway up that branch it's a bit kinked from where it went behind that black mesh. So I'm going to cut the mesh and hope releasing the kink solves it. There's now a second pumpkin on the longer, stronger vine there on the right but I'm hoping for more than 2 before the season's over.
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Wednesday 10 February 2010
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2 comments:
What a doting garden-mother you are:)
Mine do that too, especially when the temp gets up over 30 degrees C. Pumpkins are doing will despite this...
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