Melon Season

All summer long we waited and wondered if the melon plants we started from seed would produce any fruit. Finally in late summer, we saw a single blossom transforming into a tiny watermelon, and one into a muskmelon. Hooray!

We decided today was a fine day to pick our fruit and taste it.

And our tiny, tasty little muskmelon. 

Admittedly, the watermelon was gritty and not very sweet, and we likely won't grow them in our garden again. For all that water and weeding, we are better off planting something that bears much more fruit. But it was a fun experiment, and seeing Isaac's excitement for growing his own watermelon was totally worth trying. In fact, that is, in large part, why I so enjoy my garden.