While getting the collard bed ready for the cover crops, I sent my hoe right through the mystery melon vine. Funny how quickly and accidentally I can end the lifespan of a plant that was growing slowly for months. I took the melon inside, and Emily and I cut it open to see what it was. We could finally get to solve the mystery.
As I cut down I was sure I would be cutting into a watermelon, but as you can see from the picture below, I was wrong! Green on the outside, white flesh, and orange core. It kind of tasted like a cross between an cantaloupe and a cucumber. We decided that an unripe cantaloupe is the most likely answer from our limited knowledge of such things, but neither one of us would put any money on it. I sure wish I could have let this thing grow more.
Anyway, the whole thing was pretty fun. Into the composter he went.
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