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Growing a Watermelon

 While most of this blog since it's rebirth has been focused on "growing a watermelon" in terms of having a baby... I thought I'd take a more literal approach and do an update on the actual watermelons we grew! What is funny is that we planted our watermelon seeds back in April, and tonight we finally ate one. So that took about 9 months seed-to-table. And I'm on my 9th month of growing a baby!  Moral of the story - don't eat watermelon seeds.  We are in the midst of my absolute favorite gardening season in the Sonoran Desert -- The winter garden! (Yes, we get to garden year-round here). In the winter we grow things like: all the greens, carrots, beets, broccoli, Brussels. Right now we still are enjoying some of our long summer crops such as butternut squash, eggplant, and watermelon. Squash has a very long growing season - partly because we had such a dry summer.  Here is what we are enjoying currently via pictures :)  Here is a bowl of greens! We currently h