Watermelon Hammock

The Sugar Baby Watermelon is growing quite nicely. I'm in Chicago with the kids so Karl is on measuring duty: the main vine is 83" long so it's grown another 13" in the past week. I think the trellis will be able to hold everything up, but I'm concerned about the strength of the vine. Hence, the watermelon hammock.

Baby Sugar Baby Watermelon

Our trellised sugar baby watermelon is doing great so far. Last Sunday, the kids and I measured the longest vine -- 33 inches and one flower. Yesterday, it measured 61 inches. Kai quickly did the math -- 28 inches in a week or 4 inches a day! There are too many flowers on the vines to count and we have our first inch and half long baby watermelon.

Our squash is not doing all that great. The woman I talked to at Frager's suggested the soil might need more calcium or we might have a pollination problem. We better not have a pollination problem -- 20,000+ bees and not one of them is visiting my squash plants? What good are they?

Betting on the calcium deficiency, I added Tomato Tone this past Saturday. Hopefully that'll do it.