Squash and Cucs, Hose Repair, WATERMELONS, Bag Beans, Pull Weeds - Monday

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Back to the normal mornings once again. We have 2 weeks of summer break left for J and 3 for R who starts kindergarten this year. They are both excited for it and I am excited to have them both out of the house for part of the day.

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I got 23 pounds of squash and the second tub was rather helpful to limit the weight of the first as I carry them through the rows.

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25 cucumbers were ready and I have the first 27 going out in orders today.

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The last of the wormwood plants has been flowering and I cut the tops of the branches off and hung the bundle on the line outside the house to dry.

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I had to rummage around through all my hoses including my scrap hose to find a coupler. I ended up taking apart a rather decrepit looking hose that had a coupler and throwing the hose in the garbage.

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The whole reason was that the hose I have run from the basement softened water line to the hot tub had gotten a hole in it under the house. It only took a minute to cut the hose and install the coupler but it had taken me nearly an hour to find the dumb coupler.

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I had been meaning to get up to the melon garden to check on it and holy crap was I in for a surprise.

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Big Bozeman watermelon.

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This is a pear melon that I picked way too soon. It looked like an Armenian cucumber so closely that I was worried I had planted them up there, but it is just the pear melon that will have to sit on the counter to ripen for a while.

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THEN I found the watermelons! This is the first time I have ever grown this many watermelons at once before and as I looked through them they were looking on the ripe side.

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I picked all the ones that had the least white on the bottom and had the darker colored skin. I loaded them all up into the truck and headed for home.

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I weighed each of them on the porch and marked them, the total weight was 120 pounds. The smallest was 5lbs and the largest 15.5 lbs. I put one of the largest in the fridge for having with dinner.

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I went to the cooler and remembered that I had to bag beans for delivery today so I hauled the beans over to the house and got setup in the living room. It took me one episode of What On Earth to get the 62 bags done and broke everything down after taking the beans back to the cooler.

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All the boxes are ready for today's delivery. I messaged with procurement and I am likely to get a lot of my produce gone this week, thankfully.

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I got a mile in up top and managed to do it a good bit faster than other days. Once down I was back in the garden pulling weeds along the fenceline. The volunteer squash that I moved from the sheep pen are doing well and they are more than likely winter squash judging by their form and spreading nature.

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The watermelon got cut open with dinner and it is delicious. I am going to have to go rummage in my seeds to see which ones I planted as I did not keep perfect records this year, just noted as watermelon.

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Out to soak until dark when I had to get the birds in and the garbage can to the curb.

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This morning I am not going to deliver the co-op order until later as the whole family is going to Silverwood for the day and dropping the co-op order on the way. We will be a spitting distance from @generikat. I have to get my picking done first thing this morning so best be posting this.


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There are so many varieties of melons! If I had the space, I'd try them all!

Congrats on the nice garden and the harvest as well. Looks like things have turned out nicely over there. The watermelon looks good and the rest of the crops as well.

I see you've posted this on your blog. You probably know we have a few communities that this topic would fit in perfectly, like Hive garden, ecoTrain, Homesteading or Agricultural Mindset :)

I missed the community tag this morning. Normally I am good about it.

It happens, no worries :)

Will you be visiting @generikat? I had no idea you guys were so close. My watermelons are doing well (knock wood) this year. I planted Sugar Baby and and orange one. I have one hanging on the garden fence...

Didn't stop to see her but we drove past their property. North Idaho is a small world, the pan handle is only 80 miles across. They live on the other side of the mountains from us.

Your place seems like it is more conducive to melons than mine. The trees on the hill block so much of the sun that I have only ever managed to grow melons native to the northwest like the Pear melon. Last year was the first year I ever got a harvest of any other melon, the Minnesota Midget which are doing incredible this year.

I'm slow to the party, been shuffling entries and the travel trailer down the fairgrounds the last couple of days, I hope you all had a blast at Silverwood! And I waved out toward the highway in your honor lol!!

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Those watermelons look nice :)

Never throw out old hose, they can be used as soakers 😂

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The watermelon like fresh, watery and delicious.

I think want to buy your watermelon now 😏