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   T to songbird   
   Re: Too Many Melons   
   25 Aug 20 14:56:17   
   
   From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2020-08-25 05:25, songbird wrote:   
   > T wrote:   
   > ...melons...   
   >> Don't your worms like these things?   
   >   
   >    worms love melons/melon peels, but i only have ten   
   > buckets and can't possibly keep up with 30 or more   
   > melons (my last count for six plants).   
   >   
   >    the other day i was out checking the bean gardens   
   > to see which were ready to pick (as dry beans).  i   
   > looked over and saw a melon that had formed between   
   > two large rocks.  it was more ripe and i could even   
   > smell it so i picked it to see how it was.   
   >   
   >    it was excellent, perhaps a few more days and it   
   > would have been perfect.  flavor is not quite the   
   > same as a standard cantaloupe/muskmelon - it has   
   > hints of cotton candy flavor.  very good.  i'm sure   
   > i'll have a ton of seeds.   
   >   
   >    i have to learn somehow.  :)  the first one i picked   
   > way too green, it was barely edible in the center.   
   > this second one was fully ripe in the center and only   
   > a bit hard along the edges.   
   >   
   >    i'm going to have to give a lot of these away!   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
   >   
      
   I am envious!   I can't grow a melon for my life!   
      
   Then again, I can only eat three tablespoons of melon   
   a day do to my blood sugar, so it might be a good thing.   
      
   :'(   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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