Amazing Things Plants Do * Sugarbabies and Abundance
Our ‘Amazing Things Plants Do’ section of the magazine features “an interesting fact about plants”. The interesting fact (or truth) about Sugarbaby Watermelons is that, when you grow them in your garden, you are surprised by a sense of abundance when they begin to fruit and swell into little planets hiding under leaves!
It’s at this time that the shift toward coolness has arrived in the garden. Soon it will be cutting back time. Cutting back the overgrown leggy vines, massive plants that are beginning to get beaten down by the returning rains, and a general late summer clean-up to prepare for the fall seedlings that will go in, in about a month. The butternuts didn’t make it due to the squash vine borers we get in the Mid-South, and all other summer foods are declining, but the Sugarbabies are just reaching their fullest potential (we planted late).
They are so beautiful in their deep, almost black, color that at once is silver and green. They are miraculously, perfectly round, and they provide a perfect dark background to show off the pattern of their large lacy leaves.
Inside there awaits sweet, red, juicy flesh. They appeal to my sense of aesthetics and and my sense of sustainability, and that’s pretty sweet too. Right now, I am grateful for the abundance they bring.
❊ SCM
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