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My watermelon seedlings have been outside for three months now, and it\u2019s safe to assume that I can no longer call them \u201cseedlings.\u201d The plants have become sprawling, full-fledged vines that have begun to take over the corner of my yard where I planted them.<\/p>\n
To be honest, I\u2019m a little nervous. I planted the seedlings in a tiny plot of land \u2013 admittedly too <\/i>small (about six feet long and three feet wide) \u2013 and they\u2019re already trying to grow outside the plot stretching further with each passing week. When they reach outside the garden, I have to gently steer them back into the watermelon patch in order to avoid running them over with the lawn mower.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m also shocked by how fast the watermelon are growing. The first tiny watermelon appeared on the vines about five weeks ago (I noticed them when they were the size of a nickel) and they\u2019re already as big as a baseball. At this rate, they might be the size of a baby elephant by the end of the growing season. I kid, of course. I\u2019m actually a little concerned about their still relatively small size, but they\u2019re not supposed to be very large even when full-grown, so we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
The Sugar Baby variety that I planted will reportedly mature and be ready for harvest 80 days after the first tiny watermelon appeared. That means I should have a fully grown watermelon (roughly the size of a volleyball) sometime in early October. Yup, early October. Just in time to be carved into a jack-o-lantern for Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My watermelon seedlings have been outside for three months now, and it\u2019s safe to assume that I can no longer call them \u201cseedlings.\u201d The plants have become sprawling, full-fledged vines that have begun to take over the corner of my yard where I planted them. To be honest, I\u2019m a little nervous. I planted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n