This season I’m getting serious with growing my own food. In this garden bed, I planted watermelon and cantaloupe. Last year, zucchini grew well here but took awhile to get the squash. I really hope this works out well.
The watermelon seeds were started indoors in early April. It took nearly a month to germinate. I’m glad I started that seed early because now it has true leaves and is in the ground.
Tray of jalapeño seedlings transplanted from toilet paper roll tubes.
I’m also planting cantaloupe in the same bed. I read that these can be grown on a trellis or tomato cage. I have decent size tomato cages, so I’ll try that. I’ll need to create a sling or netting to hold the melons on the cage wire.