drainage ditch watermelons...

I love watermelon.

-- Central northish Ontario

Neat idea. Now if only one can keep the neighbours from stealing them. LOL

I guess one could plant some seeds in the neighbour’s ditch too.

-- jroot

it looks like the Easter Bunny was hopping along leaving watermelons along the path.

Great idea! Watermelon is a family favourite – so many memories.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

@jroot,
HA!!!
when i wuz in tha middle of tilling and planting, my neighbors on tha way in and out of tha subdivision stopped to make conversation…
and,
since i am inherently lazy, i would stop at any given opportunity to chat… :)
i tole each and every one of them…
stop and pick…
stop and pick…
stop and pick…
and leave some fer others…

it turned out to be a GRAND year…
and this one iz just now beginning… :)

-- yeah, it DOES smell funny... now eat it...

Drainage ditch gardening sounds like a great way to grow delicious food for yourself as well as build community. I predict you will have lots of fun stories to share and I am looking forward to reading them.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

I think someone has already said this but, “I love watermelon!!”.

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

watermelon, cantalope, bananas,ice and ice cream into a blender with ice, coconut rum, vodka…..............before you know it yer dancing in the streets.

keeps the neighbors talking

-- Central northish Ontario

I love watermelon too.I am going to grow them for the first time come this spring.Any helpful tips you can share with me.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

dear greenthumb,
i am grinning az i think about all tha thingys tha neighbors are ALREADY talking about that goes on in and around our lil shack in paradise… HA!!!
dancing neked in tha streets iz just ONE of my sins…

dear bon,
here comes my (girlfriend’s) method for melons, pumpkins, squash, anythingy like that, that grows on tha ground…
she started tha seeds in pots inside in controlled conditions to give them a decent head start… (texas sun can be brutal)
after i tilled tha patch on tha side of tha ditch, we more or less leveled it out (didn’t want tha county to come along and dig us a ditch, dang it) and created six to eight inch hills upon which tha seedlings were planted…
now,
i made a tad bit of an error, during tha spring az they were getting going, i watered nearly daily…
bad move…
it turns out watermelons don’t need an abundance of water…
consequence- i had prolly a half dozen of them sweet melons “pop” in tha sun…
they just burst…
did you know that ducks will eat a busted watermelon???
neither did i… sigh…
for more intelligent info, find ms hakima’s profile and give her a poke…
she’s tha smart one in this pairing…

sincerely,
rookie

-- yeah, it DOES smell funny... now eat it...

lil update fer those reading…
i added one last pic, (#6)...
it iz of tha patch afore anything started really growing…

rookie

-- yeah, it DOES smell funny... now eat it...

Wow you sure are lucky to be able to plant so close to the road.Here if the kids didn’t destroy them then people would steal all the melons.Thanks for the tip.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

well, it IZ county property…
and tha boyz from tha county will mow it with bushhogs twice a season if tha people who live here won’t…
now,
during tha season, twice, somebody put a wheel thru tha patch (drunk??? who knows)...
lost a few melons each time…
i cain’t begin to count all tha beer cans i fetched outta tha patch…
once there wuz a concrete crew working onna dock and they didn’t see tha patch, overgrown from my neglect, and parked a truck/trailer combo right on top of a few melons… sigh…
once i saw tha county boyz mowing just in time to see that caring tractor operator mow AROUND tha patch cuz he could see it wuz important… a KING of a man… if i ever can find him, he gits all tha melons he can eat…
if kids are kids, and they WILL be kids, and a melon or ten gits destroyed, stolen, or spiked, then i consider that to be a teaching opportunity…
i figger Spirit iz good enuff to provide for me and everbody else, too…
this world iz not mine, i am just a steward…

time fer some jalapenos!!!
HA!!!
rookie

-- yeah, it DOES smell funny... now eat it...

i envy you guys, no drainage ditches here, cement sidewalks :(

-- south shore montreal, zone 5a, whish it was 9

Thanks for the tips.I am going to try growing them on my small slope at the back of the house wihich faces south.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

the kids spike the melons? as in, they fill them with vodka? that is pretty funny

-- Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.. shine on you crazy diamond