Post by canadamike on Sept 11, 2010 23:18:55 GMT -5
Ifigured out all the picture bugs, thanks to our french friend NUTS who sent me on the right track.
I did not have time to take many pictures today, but the empty guest room looks like a war zone, full with white plastick bags with names on them, and it smells like MELONS.
Tomorrow I should spend most of the day taking pictures, saving seeds and freezing melon meat for future smoothies. There are so many melons we bought a smoothies making machine and a new freezer. I'll also make melon jam.
I'll come here to post the pictures, since I do it for all of us like we all do, and I will also rate the melons taste wise.
ONE THING TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION IS THAT AT RIPENING TIME, MID-TO END AUGUST, WE WERE HIT BY LOADS OF RAINS, TRIPLE THE AVERAGE AMOUND IN THAT ALREADY WETTEST MONTH OF THE SUMMER.
All the melons I have tasted so far beat the crap out of grocery stores one, but not by the usual margin.In fact, had I not grown them under black plastic, my 25 years of experience with them and many past disillusions tell me they would have tasted nothing. But plastic protects only so much. When the soil around the row is so saturated by water, it percolates, notwhitstanding the fact plants drink through their leaves too as foliar feeding has thought us.
SO UNDERSTAND THAT UP TO NOW, I HAVE HAD THE BEST HARVEST EVER FOR MANY MELONS, BUT THE SUGARS ARE NOT AROUND AS MUCH BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. EVEN TOMATOES SHARE THE SAME FARE. RAIN IS RAIN IS RAIN IS RAIN....
BUT THEY ALL , UP TO NOW, BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF GROCERY STORES OR RESTAURANT FARE MELONS.
It is just I am quite finicky. My girlfriend and my neighbours are in pure taste heaven and I look at them in disbelief, having known so much better. All of you can relate to that. One trick, sprinkle ''not so incredibly sweet'' melons with sugar. If it is only the in the last days that rain hurt them like in my case, the flavor compounds will be mostly there. Tomorrow, I'll freeze a hundred pounds or so of melons, keeping only the best ones, and I will probably roll most of them in sugar before puting them in the freezer. But them, who am I to say so...I still can have surprises
Melon smoothies forever ;D ;D ;D
The man is ugly
i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/canadamike1/Jardin-garden%202010%20Cumberland/2010_09112010MUSEJARDIN0209.jpg
The big mug looks small, and the taste is great
I tried to post the pictures here but for the first time I could not, can anybody tell me why?? i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/canadamike1/Jardin-garden%202010%20Cumberland/2010_09112010MUSEJARDIN0195.jpg
I did not have time to take many pictures today, but the empty guest room looks like a war zone, full with white plastick bags with names on them, and it smells like MELONS.
Tomorrow I should spend most of the day taking pictures, saving seeds and freezing melon meat for future smoothies. There are so many melons we bought a smoothies making machine and a new freezer. I'll also make melon jam.
I'll come here to post the pictures, since I do it for all of us like we all do, and I will also rate the melons taste wise.
ONE THING TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION IS THAT AT RIPENING TIME, MID-TO END AUGUST, WE WERE HIT BY LOADS OF RAINS, TRIPLE THE AVERAGE AMOUND IN THAT ALREADY WETTEST MONTH OF THE SUMMER.
All the melons I have tasted so far beat the crap out of grocery stores one, but not by the usual margin.In fact, had I not grown them under black plastic, my 25 years of experience with them and many past disillusions tell me they would have tasted nothing. But plastic protects only so much. When the soil around the row is so saturated by water, it percolates, notwhitstanding the fact plants drink through their leaves too as foliar feeding has thought us.
SO UNDERSTAND THAT UP TO NOW, I HAVE HAD THE BEST HARVEST EVER FOR MANY MELONS, BUT THE SUGARS ARE NOT AROUND AS MUCH BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. EVEN TOMATOES SHARE THE SAME FARE. RAIN IS RAIN IS RAIN IS RAIN....
BUT THEY ALL , UP TO NOW, BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF GROCERY STORES OR RESTAURANT FARE MELONS.
It is just I am quite finicky. My girlfriend and my neighbours are in pure taste heaven and I look at them in disbelief, having known so much better. All of you can relate to that. One trick, sprinkle ''not so incredibly sweet'' melons with sugar. If it is only the in the last days that rain hurt them like in my case, the flavor compounds will be mostly there. Tomorrow, I'll freeze a hundred pounds or so of melons, keeping only the best ones, and I will probably roll most of them in sugar before puting them in the freezer. But them, who am I to say so...I still can have surprises
Melon smoothies forever ;D ;D ;D
The man is ugly
i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/canadamike1/Jardin-garden%202010%20Cumberland/2010_09112010MUSEJARDIN0209.jpg
The big mug looks small, and the taste is great
I tried to post the pictures here but for the first time I could not, can anybody tell me why?? i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/canadamike1/Jardin-garden%202010%20Cumberland/2010_09112010MUSEJARDIN0195.jpg