Look at this little beauty! I am hoping that finally this year nature will give me a watermelon. Last year didn't work out due to the intense dryness of the summer but this year there is a chance. It's hot this year as well but there is rain on a weekly basis at least. Nature can be kind or just as cruel. Today I picked seven tomatoes and was so happy to finally see red tomatoes on our plants but when I looked at the bottom I saw that four of them were diseased and inedible. What causes this, I don't know but it affected some of our harvest last year as well.
Sometimes this happens. You put a lot of work into growing something and if slugs don't eat them, something else possibly will or else it simply won't pollinate like one of our pumpkins last year. It produced many flowers, crawled about five metres, looked nice but ultimately produced nothing to eat.
There's still a long way to go for this little one but it looks promising and it's not the only watermelon we have ...
