Baby melons

As you may have read last year Ian has a recently-discovered passion for growing melons.

He's currently growing this 'sweetheart' melon that he grew so successfully last year:



and for the first time a watermelon. It's about the size of a grape in this photograph:

The melon

There are so many things that I meant to blog at the time and didn't. Does anyone else ever find that, and if so do they do delayed blogs or just give up?

One of our biggest edible successes this year was the melon that Ian grew on the dining room windowsill - see my Dad's blogs for details:

http://scriptorsenex.blogspot.com/2008/08/melon.html

http://scriptorsenex.blogspot.com/2008/09/melon.html

The melon took a trip to Formby for our annual harvest dinner and then came back down to Exeter before it was eaten. We were a little concerned that it might not taste good, but it turned out to be delicious. Even I thought it was good and I don't even like melon.

So here are a couple of pictures of the melon eating...

You can't fake a reaction like that!