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Comments (18)I am revisiting this topic of watermelon varieties to grow out. I do dot grow that many at one time for I need to put them out in shorter rows and have enough land left over for changing the location of my patch. I have enough room to grow 14- 16 melon vines in 5 different locations which is still a bit short of room since I grow 2 crops a year. My goal is to not touch the same soil till the 4th year. I would like to hear different viewpoints and especially Southern growers who grow in extreme humidity and heat like myself, which is zone 10b in Southwest Florida. Anyone in the South of Florida usually gives up growing melons. lol Florida is #1 in Watermelon production in the Country so we have no excuses and need to understand timing is the key. I have had successful crops but have been away from the game for a few short years and am getting back to planting Watermelon again . I started about 2 weeks late getting my seeds out in the beginning of Sept. Vines are getting big quickly and I feel it will be a successful Fall, which is not easy here due to the winter is coming fast. Our Spring crop is usually much better but I was game to get some in. Here is my list for my grow out. I use a wide row method of growing so my row is 6 ft wide and plants spread out 3 ft apart in both directions and are 2 deep in the row. Soil is amended to a sandy loam and I use a triple 14 Polyon coated fertilizer and run a ph of about 6 - 6.5. I top dress every 2 weeks with a triple 20 water base fertilizer and Calcium nitrate, both at half strength or slightly above. 1. 2 Orangeglo 2. 2 Crimson Sweet 3. 2 Golden Honey 4. 1 Bush Sugar Baby 5. 1 Sugar Baby 6. 2 Leelanau 7. 1 Legacy 8. 1 Jubilee 9. 1 Legendary 10. 1 Yellow Baby Doll 11. 2 Orange Crisp In the winter into Spring will be trialing a few more to the list and they are Starbrite, Summer Flavor #720, Grandeur, Royalty, Golden Gem. I would be growing Gold Strike but the seed is not being sold any more. That is the best yielding watermelon I have ever grown and it kills me not to have it any more. I do like the hybrid vigor for watermelon production but am keeping some of the better OP types in my trials to see if any shine. Actually I am growing more OP's with this fall crop....See MoreLet's talk about orchids
Comments (14)Kevin, since you asked, life is interesting down here. It's very cool to be able to pick oranges, poncans, lemons, and grapefruits off trees growing wild or in the yard. We were going to go to something called "Smash-A-Rama" Friday night but forgot. Not only do they smash cars but they have school bus races, RV races and races with cars/trucks pulling trailers. Yup, the North Carolina rednecks were downright sophisticated and I didn't even know it. Instead Friday night, we ended up at an alligator "zoo"/marina (although they call them fish camps?)/biker bar/diner combo that, frankly, defied description. I was so amused (if that's the right word), I was speechless. It was beyond tacky. I had to eat at the restaurant simply to say I had (I had gator bites). The restaurant was covered top to bottom in different colored lights with lights also wrapped around the palm trees out front, also in various colors. Time will tell what other strange things I find here. We did go to Canaveral on Thanksgiving and take pics. It was wicked cold on the beach though because it was really windy. I did see the space shuttle and launch pad, from about a 1/4 mile, which is as close as the general public can get (I've seen it before, of course, but only from a highway). Since we had the digital equivalent of a 1000mm lens for the camera, we got some good shots of it anyway. If anyone is interested the Nikon N80 is sweet. It took about 5 seconds to fall in love with it, although I'm having to adjust to the different ambient light here and using my lenses on a digital camera. Yup, the orchids came with me, at least the few I have left after last winters disaster with an unexpected frost. I just put in a big order with Andy for tons of laelia and a couple pleuros to replace those I lost and because they can stay outside all year. Laelia and pleuros had become my "thing" and that's about all I care to grow anyway. I had it going on with the cool to intermediate growing pleuros in NC, so I'm hoping I can pull that off in Florida too. Right now the temps are perfect for pleuros (average winter low is 50). My one masdie is tickled to death to be outside. I won't even try the cooler growing orchids here though, so I guess I've seen my last drac bloom on my own plant....See MoreLets talk about hardy pears....
Comments (86)If anyone can’t join the ‘Hardy Fruits and Nuts of Alberta’ facebook group please try Hardy Fruits and Nuts of CANADA… most of the fruits and nuts experts are there but we try to get the CANADA group going but somehow it is not as active....See MoreLet’s talk about funeral homes!
Comments (47)My mother had purchased her interment site decades ago - in her hometown, where she hadn't lived for the decades since. She had also picked out a dress to be buried in, and had shown it to me several times in the years before her final illness. She was in a nursing home in my town, 115 miles away, with hospice. The nursing home (or hospice, I don't recall which) arranged for her remains to be picked up by a local mortuary after death was declared. I arranged the funeral with the funeral home in her hometown, that had been used by my family many times. They arranged to have the body transported to them, handled all of the paperwork (including obtaining the death certificate from my county), and placed the obit that I wrote in the local paper. 3 of my 4 siblings, my aunt and her best friend, and 2 of 5 my nieces came to the small service that we had in a parlor of the funeral home. There was no one else who knew or were friends with her (and I had no friends that I had remained in contact with) left in town. My niece's husband (they lived locally) arranged for the chaplain from his work to give a little homily and lead prayer; I found a musician to play 3-4 of her favorite hymns on guitar. Then all we went to the interment at the cemetery. One of my SILs arranged with someone she knew to prepare and serve a casual lunch in a facility at the cemetery for us. BTW, that was the only family member who did anything - the others never even offered - to arrange or help pay for it all. Mom didn't have any insurance benefit or funds left to help pay. ETA: I did all this really out of respect for my elderly aunt - that it pleased my sister and 2 of her daughters was nice but really not a consideration. My brothers wouldn't have minded either way, but I was glad that the oldest drove up from Tennessee - I hadn't seen him in many years, and probably never will again - I was 7 when he left home at the age of 18 and we were never close as adults. At the time it was rather a stretch for my finances. So, I did negotiate with the funeral home about the charges; in fact, I declined their caskets and found a company that sold and delivered lovely caskets in Cincinnati at a much lower cost....See Moresunnyborders
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