Happy National Watermelon Day!
I really love watermelon, there is nothing like a perfectly red, ripe tasty melon… and if it is seedless, even better! I can’t put away a lot of this yummy item! Since I now live in an area that things can grow stuff (as you already know by my gardening posts), watermelon was a for sure on my “to plant” list. Well, they actually did phenomenal even with all the dry weather we had for a while.
Well, up to a certain point… and here is why. Just days before several were ready to pick and enjoy, something ate into every single melon out there… maybe around 50 or so total. On day one we found most of them chewed into and so I picked 3 of the biggest that were left because by the next day the rest were ruined (even all the small ones that were hardly even 3″ in diameter)… they did not stand a chance! Of course I was big-time bummed because they were what I was looking forward to the most in the garden. But I tried not to let it get me down too much because hey, I tried and also we can only do so much living several miles from the garden spot.
But hey, enough on the sad news right? I can go to the store and get one because there is much to enjoy about these red (or yellow) yummies! You can quench your thirst and fill your belly at the same time, and enjoy watermelon knowing it is a good source of Potassium, and a very good source of Vitamins A and C. So maybe next year I will attempt again, or maybe not… Something out there got its fill on my melons and I am not sure I want to feed the local critters any longer! 
Have a great day and go eat some watermelon!
