It got way hot here, and my zucchini slowed down, and I'm not getting much right now, or the yellow squash. The cucumbers are doing great tho. And the tomatoes. Waterwitchin mentioned earlier Cherokee Purple tomatoes, and I feel confident that they are the best tasting tomatoes that exist, and they are just started to ripen in my garden. I'm gonna have some to give away to neighbors before long, because they don't keep well. You have to eat them fast.
My watermelons are doing great. I've never grown watermelon before, but I was at the garden center, and they had little starts of Black Diamond watermelon. I hadn't seen those around in years. I remember as a kid when we would go to our lake house in Eufaula, Oklahoma, there were always roadside stands selling watermelons, and the black diamonds were always the best, seetest watermelons I'd ever had, but I haven't seen them in years, so when I saw the plants, I jumped at the chance. Now that they are starting to fruit, I can see that they are not all black diamond. I think I have three different varieties, even tho they all came labeled as black diamond. Next year I'm going to just grow them from seeds, so I know I get what I want. I'm sure the others will be delicious, but black diamond what I was after. I've never grown watermelon before, so I don't know how this is going to go, but it looks good so far. I've included some pictures so you can see what I've got, and you can probably tell that I have three different varieties. Even though they aren't all what I thought I was getting, I'm excited about them and I'm sure they will be delicious.
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