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Finally, my first Cantaloupe! (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SlippiHUD@lemmy.world to c/gardening@lemmy.world
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I tried planting edible landscaping this year, but it's been working pretty poorly. I think I need figure out a better way to communicate the expectations with pedestrians.

So far 2 Cantaloupes have been taken well before ripening, an unripe green pumpkin was taken, an unripe bell pepper was taken, and they aren't touching the ripe tomatos or strawberries. So I'm very confused.

Maybe I'm expecting them to have too high of a base knowledge of garden plants? I may just move the garden inside the fence and build a small pantry instead.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's far better to have a community basket that you place extras into.

your thought was nice, but people are savages who have zero clue how to take care of themselves.

I once watched someone peel a cantaloupe like an apple. think about that for a moment. whatever you're imagining is probably less stupid than how they were doing it.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How exactly does one peel a cantaloupe like an apple??

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

they took a tourne knife in one hand, and the cantaloupe in the other hand. then starting from the top they began to spiral cut (poorly) thin shavings of rind.

they must have gone over it three or four times until it was mostly orange.

things didn't get interesting until the melon got all slippery and they not only almost dropped it 10 times, but also cut or stabbed themselves about 50 times.

total time to "peel", just about an hour.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Must truly have been an experience witnessing that.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

like a train wreck in slow motion and zero casualties.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a good looking melon you have there.

I would have taken a tomato. I so miss ripe, fresh tomatoes.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Literally the only kind of raw tomato worth eating, store bought tomatoes are the worst.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have found my oppostie then. Raw tomatoes are the only type of tomatoes I just cannot eat. I find them revolting.

Sluce em up and put some feta on top and into the pan. Great. Do literally anything that is not raw tomato and I will rat it.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I meant garden fresh tomatoes are the only raw tomato worth eating, processed/cooked tomatoes are great.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I cannot even stand home grown ones. Neither our own ones nor the ones from my grandma. There is just aomething about the sour watery raw tomato that is not to my liking.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ayyy, congrats!!

Some signage about how to tell ripeness could also potentially help

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The fruit to seed ratio is the best I’ve ever seen!

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

?????

That is dead on average for closed cavity cantaloupe.

Some of the galia types would have a cavity of 30% smaller.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only time I've ever tried to grow these, they were so tiny. Yours looks excellent!

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Not sure what I'm doing right but my 2 plants have 12 melons between them. Though the others are probably 6" diameter.

Maybe it's because it's a fresh garden plot and while i do have a turf yard its got a heavy clover mix. So the soil isn't trash.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

8cm diameter? So it's rather small.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

21cm, its 8.25 inches.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you are using odd units of measurements instead of international standards...

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The measuring tape is labeled, and it's not like I own a metric one.

Also I'm pretty sure I added alt text describing it in inches, but I can't seem to pull it up.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thats inches, so 20cm ish

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you’re ever unsure of the scale, metric tapes are divided into 10 segments per unit. American tapes are divided into 16 segments per unit.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

16 inches in a foot?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Inches are subdivided in fractions instead of decimals. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 (sometimes you’ll see 1/32 but anything past that typically switches over to decimal since you’re not going to be doing mental math with that size anyways).

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was sure it was inch, but the boneheadness to assume that everyone thinks in inches while only the US does annoys me.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck does that even mean. What assumptions did OP make? Please use direct quotes.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Op assumed that by showing an unlabeled scale, everybody would assume that it uses outdated non-standard units.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Yea, that’s much more plausible than them just using the measuring tape they have at home while sharing the nice fruit they grew. Fuck off, main character.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How did it taste? Was it better, worse, or comparable to store-bought?

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It had a better texture and flavor, but it probably wasn't as sweet as a store bought one, but I could get a sweeter variety and likely win there too.

Honestly everything out of the garden is better than store bought. And I've mostly planted and forgot it, its not like its even hard work.