a good cantaloupe is hard to beat!!!!! We had a good one this morning, I did not grow it myself hahaha. I'm loving the the floor vent photoshoot ahahhaha
You're so funny 🤣, just about fell off the couch for the photo shoot..😂 I've read melons should be chilled whole and the sugars will set. Amazing how much we don't know about growing food until we grow it. So much to learn!! Great job 👏🏾
LOL!!! I did that photo shoot to get a good thumbnail, but it was too funny to delete, so I put it in! 🤣🤣🤣 So true about not knowing what we don’t know. I’ve been obsessed with growing all things, mostly ornamentals for at least 10 years; and I’m really enjoying the process 🤓🤓🤓 I really appreciate you watching!
You nailed it - less water just before you harvest them. And of course, they taste a hundred times better when they're *cold*! ☺️ My Noir des Carmes melons turn an orange-yellow very quickly when they reach peak ripeness. Maybe it's a French thing? 😎 Love the music and hair blowing in the AC breeze! 🤣
I had 2 cantaloupe that were getting close, I checked them Thursday evening and they were still firmly attached. Yesterday when I went out, they had both fallen off the vine. Grabbed them and brought them in. They smell amazing. I haven't cut them yet. Going to this afternoon. If you can get your hands on a Pecos Cantaloupe....save the seeds and plant them next year, They are THE BEST cantaloupe on earth. I grew up out there, Mandujano Brothers Produce is the grower. They plant 300 acres of cantaloupe. Used to be 1000 acres. They are getting harder and harder to find. HEB has them sometimes. And if it is a Pecos Cantaloupe it will have a sticker on it that says Mandujano Brothers Produce on it. They aren't ripe until the skin between the webbing starts turning yellow. Last year my melons were planted in the ground and were 6 and 7 lbs each. This year I planted them in a raised bed and they are a little over 1 lb each. Makes me sad. But at least I got some.
I don’t like cantaloupe. However, I grew up in West Texas and Pecos cantaloupe was very much a thing. Everyone loves it. I grow cantaloupe for my bf now. Wish I could get some of the Pecos seeds. It would be awesome. I do wonder, though, if the climate and the soil has a lot to do with how good Pecos cantaloupes are.
@@dsgardenadventures Mine tasted just like a Pecos grown cantaloupe and I'm in southeast Texas now. I didn't like cantaloupe when I was a kid, but I love them now. I think I was in my early 30s when I started eating them. But all my growing up years in West Texas everyone ate Pecos Cantaloupe. What area of West Texas are you from? Im from Monahans.
You have lovely melons and you "crack" me up! I love your thought process at the start to find out the plant answered your questions! I feel this so much 😂. Have you tried canary melon? They are AMAZING and have done great here with minimal effort. Also your garden looks beautiful!
Charentais And actually, I think the Amazon site I bought them from had the wrong seeds. Mine don’t look like other Charentais 🤔 It still tastes good though! 🙌😋 #awinisawin 😂
@NicoleSmithGardening thank you. I always plan more than I am able to do too. Plant things too close. Lots of the things you do. You crack me up sometimes.
They split very easily, be glad we are in a drought. Water will reduce the sweetness. Best to wait till the turn yellow, but sometimes you have no choice. I grew some a few years ago. They grew well, made over a dozen melons. And they all split a couple of days before they were ready. It was when we were getting rain every 2 or 3 days. Other cantaloupes did well and tasted good. In my new place I have not made good tasting cantaloupes, not sure why.
Have I told you how funny you are? Lol Anyway, yay to the second round of melon being sweeter. Have you ever had ants crawling all over okra? I have ants on two of my okra plants. Just little ants. They will sting but they are small ants. They don’t ruin the okra. They’re just all over it. I don’t see any signs of aphids. So…I don’t know. My brain has a hard time with words too. I hope it’s just the normal aging thing and nothing more.
LOL, thank you! 🤪❤️😘 I always think of aphids when I see ants in okra. But, if you’re not seeing them, it could be something sweet and tasty that the okra is secretly excreting 🤔 I get the ants in my long beans. Maybe it’s nectar from the flowers 🤔🤔
a good cantaloupe is hard to beat!!!!! We had a good one this morning, I did not grow it myself hahaha. I'm loving the the floor vent photoshoot ahahhaha
LOL! ❤️ 🌬️
Awesome harvest!!!
Thank you! ❤️
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Hello! 👋 Thank you so very much!
I’m subbed to your channel too 😃
Well, shoot! I wanted to see what Rachelle had to comment. Oh well. Glad they were sweet.
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LOL!
36 Like very nice video 💯☕👍🙋🏻♀️👍
Those look wonderful! Great harvest! 😊❤
Thank you! ❤️
Yum!
So good! 😋
Looks yummy. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! ❤️
You're so funny 🤣, just about fell off the couch for the photo shoot..😂
I've read melons should be chilled whole and the sugars will set. Amazing how much we don't know about growing food until we grow it. So much to learn!! Great job 👏🏾
LOL!!! I did that photo shoot to get a good thumbnail, but it was too funny to delete, so I put it in! 🤣🤣🤣
So true about not knowing what we don’t know. I’ve been obsessed with growing all things, mostly ornamentals for at least 10 years; and I’m really enjoying the process
🤓🤓🤓
I really appreciate you watching!
You nailed it - less water just before you harvest them. And of course, they taste a hundred times better when they're *cold*! ☺️ My Noir des Carmes melons turn an orange-yellow very quickly when they reach peak ripeness. Maybe it's a French thing? 😎
Love the music and hair blowing in the AC breeze! 🤣
Ooo-La-La!!! 😂 That’s all the French I know 🤣
Thanks, Kim! ❤️
I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊
Hey hey!!! It’s good to see you 😍
Thank you!
Your melons are looking great! I usually have to protect mine from squirrels when they get close to being ripe. Thanks for sharing, Nicole!
Thank you! Oh gosh, I hope the squirrels mind their business! 😂
I’m jealous. So much rain here my melons are splitting. Glad yours worked out.
And I’m jealous of your rain!! We’re so dry and dusty 😮💨
Thanks for watching! ❤️
Nice ! I'm glad you figured out why that first one (probably) wasn't as tasty!
Thank you! ❤️
Yay I’m all caught up in the wonderful world of Nicole
LOL!!! Thank you, Nina! 🥰😘❤️
I had 2 cantaloupe that were getting close, I checked them Thursday evening and they were still firmly attached. Yesterday when I went out, they had both fallen off the vine. Grabbed them and brought them in. They smell amazing. I haven't cut them yet. Going to this afternoon.
If you can get your hands on a Pecos Cantaloupe....save the seeds and plant them next year, They are THE BEST cantaloupe on earth. I grew up out there, Mandujano Brothers Produce is the grower. They plant 300 acres of cantaloupe. Used to be 1000 acres. They are getting harder and harder to find. HEB has them sometimes. And if it is a Pecos Cantaloupe it will have a sticker on it that says Mandujano Brothers Produce on it.
They aren't ripe until the skin between the webbing starts turning yellow. Last year my melons were planted in the ground and were 6 and 7 lbs each. This year I planted them in a raised bed and they are a little over 1 lb each. Makes me sad. But at least I got some.
I don’t like cantaloupe. However, I grew up in West Texas and Pecos cantaloupe was very much a thing. Everyone loves it. I grow cantaloupe for my bf now. Wish I could get some of the Pecos seeds. It would be awesome. I do wonder, though, if the climate and the soil has a lot to do with how good Pecos cantaloupes are.
Oh. And I sure wish we had an HEB. Such a great store.
@@dsgardenadventures Mine tasted just like a Pecos grown cantaloupe and I'm in southeast Texas now. I didn't like cantaloupe when I was a kid, but I love them now. I think I was in my early 30s when I started eating them. But all my growing up years in West Texas everyone ate Pecos Cantaloupe. What area of West Texas are you from? Im from Monahans.
@@BroqueCowgirlHomestead I’m from Odessa. I live in Alabama now.
@@dsgardenadventures Amazing difference in landscape isn't it? hehe Before we came here, I didn't know Texas actually had trees.
Lol!!! You crack me up.
Heehee!!! 🤣😉
You have lovely melons and you "crack" me up! I love your thought process at the start to find out the plant answered your questions! I feel this so much 😂. Have you tried canary melon? They are AMAZING and have done great here with minimal effort. Also your garden looks beautiful!
LOL! Thank you so much!
I have not tried the canary melon; sounds like I need to! 😲
Sharon taste seeds? Wow those look beautiful.
Charentais
And actually, I think the Amazon site I bought them from had the wrong seeds. Mine don’t look like other Charentais 🤔
It still tastes good though! 🙌😋
#awinisawin 😂
@NicoleSmithGardening thank you. I always plan more than I am able to do too. Plant things too close. Lots of the things you do. You crack me up sometimes.
They split very easily, be glad we are in a drought. Water will reduce the sweetness. Best to wait till the turn yellow, but sometimes you have no choice. I grew some a few years ago. They grew well, made over a dozen melons. And they all split a couple of days before they were ready. It was when we were getting rain every 2 or 3 days. Other cantaloupes did well and tasted good. In my new place I have not made good tasting cantaloupes, not sure why.
Oh, very interesting! Thanks for the tips. I’ve got some Hale’s Best growing too. I hope they taste good.
@@NicoleSmithGardening Hale's Best is a good tasting cantaloupe if you like the typical cantaloupe flavor, which I do.
That looks delicious 🥰
So good! ❤️
Nice melons 😁 Thanks for sharing those tips. I haven't successfully grown any yet. :)
Michelle in the Meadow!!! So nice to meet you! ❤️
Glad you liked my melons 🤣
These are the best I’ve grown so far 🙌
Looks yummy!
😉
Gurl you and your melons😂Glad the second one was sweeter, tfs
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Beautiful cantaloupe 🍈 yummy
Bet the smell is amaz-balls
So good! ❤️
You are hilarious 😂that crack smells good 😂all this smelling is making me want to attempt melons one day
I’m a hot mess over here. Everything is so funny to me. I really love making videos. Thank you so much for watching ❤️
Those melons were exciting. The first melon really looked nice and ripe. Good thing you gave it the crack smelling test.😅
🤣
Thank you!
You me laugh so loud. Thank you
You're welcome!!! 🤣❤
Love the photo shoot 😂😂😂
LOL! Thank you! 🤣
Have I told you how funny you are? Lol
Anyway, yay to the second round of melon being sweeter.
Have you ever had ants crawling all over okra? I have ants on two of my okra plants. Just little ants. They will sting but they are small ants. They don’t ruin the okra. They’re just all over it. I don’t see any signs of aphids. So…I don’t know.
My brain has a hard time with words too. I hope it’s just the normal aging thing and nothing more.
LOL, thank you! 🤪❤️😘
I always think of aphids when I see ants in okra. But, if you’re not seeing them, it could be something sweet and tasty that the okra is secretly excreting 🤔 I get the ants in my long beans. Maybe it’s nectar from the flowers 🤔🤔