Late August garden update

The watermelons are really taking off. They are growing exponentially every week, more than doubling and tripling in size. What was a golfball size last week, is softball size this week. I'm almost afraid to see what next week will bring, since we are up to a count of no less than 5 melons on the two plants. Four of the melons are shown here, all of the photos were taken a week ago today.

The first is just a tiny bit bigger this week. The 2nd melon is now the size that the first melon was last week (WOW!) I just keep watering and hope that the water and some heat will ripen them soon. Now I just need to find the seed packets that I used to plant these, so I know what kind they are and how big they are supposed to get. I have no clue how to tell if they are ripe or not...


First

Second

Third & Fourth