Watermelons are not going to be my Friends

Recently in Japan ( see photo above) a farmer came up with a novel idea of growing heart shaped watemelons. Here at KV Farms all we want to do is just grow plain ol' melons. We love the shape of them but at the price they are selling them I dont think the farmer was growing too many of them. He probably makes more money in a season of growing heart shaped ones than we do working all year.



It wasn't until 1615 however that the word "watermelon" first appeared in the English dictionary. Nutritionally, the watermelon is fat, sodium and cholesterol free; an excellent source of vitamins A and C; and contributes fibre, iron and potassium to the diet. Watermelons also contain an important phytochemical (plant compound) called lycopene. Lycopene is a powerful anti-oxidant. Apparently helps mens prostates and reduces blood pressure. For that part I am not sure it reduces the farmers blood pressure as mine was raised high by the farm help recently.



You see we decided to grow 2000 watemelons via transplants. The idea behind that was to get a headstart on the growing season. Well the day chosen for the work was COLD. Perfect I thought for doing the transplanting as the plants will set better into the soil and take. The two people appointed to plant them did not want to come out of the house as their complaint was it was tooooooo cold. Farmer John being the resident tractor operator was not happychappy.



They eventually got over it and 2000 seedling transplants were put into the soils. Next to them is a funny story about how we trial things here at KV Farms and follow them to a success or to a failure.



Last summer I grew a small row of Bannana Squash, a large watermelon shaped pumpkin like squash. Well we only grew it for our personal consumption. One day Elvis our man on the floor of the wholesale markets asked if I had anything else to send up. I said yes on a joke and mentioned the BS words and he said send them up. I called to see how they were selling the next day and by 9 a.m. they were sold. He wanted plenty more and I sent them up. We ended up have the miserable small ones at the end of season cleaning time. Well this year we have planted over 1000 of these little guys