Moon and Stars Revisited

This evening in a rare bout of garden tidiness (in the dark, in my PJs no less) I went out the back garage door and I tore the dead summer watermelon stems out of the raised bed. I tossed most of it but could not bring myself to toss away the littlest Moon and Stars watermelon. The one, tiny, eensie, three inch watermelon, the entire crop I got from my Hertiage Moon and Stars Melon plants. I wrote about the tiny melon a couple of weeks ago

Yes, my lonely little melon was pathetic and, again, tiny, but damn it! I worked hard growing the plants from seed and watering them on the hot summer days. So I thought the least I could do before tossing the littlest melon was see how it looked on the inside - too my shock, it looked fresh, it looked just fine. The inner flesh was yellow. The seeds were so underdeveloped they were still white and soft. I decided, what the hell, might as well taste it. I was so in awe, I just wolfed it down before photographing the inner flesh occured to me.

HOLY MOTHER OF GULAG GARDEN MIRACLES! The littlest melon was sweet! Tasty, tiny, sweet and honestly, that yellow flesh was flavorful to boot! I am amazed. Can't wait to get the next batch of seedlings started round about early April.

The Littlest Moon and Stars, 3 inches packed with
sweet yellow melon flesh
Yellow flesh! I just read up again, the flesh is supposed to be red, but this melon never had time to develop properly, making it all the more strange it should have beautiful juvenile yellow inner flesh. Wow. Can't wait until spring to have another shot at getting full sized fruit.