CMP Review 2025-09-05

September 5, 2025

For many years, Serafina has been trying to grow watermelons. Living in gardening zone 3b, this is no mean feat.

We’ve tried in the ground, we’ve tried in a pot. This year we opted for a pot again, hoping we could place the plant where it would get the most sun.

This year only one watermelon flower actually fruited. We kept watching it, hoping it would grow and sweeten.

And then the frost hit it a few nights ago. I had covered my tomato plants before going to bed, but I completely forgot about this watermelon.

So the next day, we decided to pick the single fruit. Though it surely could have used another couple of weeks of sunshine.

We found it very white inside. But with the tiniest hint of watermelon flavour.

Please, send tips. (Zone 9 tips might not help, dear southern friends, but we will take them!)

@[antonella.f.greco