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Attempting to grow watermelons here in MN for the first time, too. Planted them and then had a week of high 80's to low 90's... they were up within just a few days! Tried starting them in the house and it didn't go well. None made it to transplanting in the garden. Oh well, it will be...

The finished compost is not a problem for me I haven't looked to see if there are any spuds actually growing or not. The plants sure like nice and healthy, though! Worms and bugs munching on them would definitely make up my mind about whether or not to eat them!

Mostly I wonder if the smell of the rotting stuff would affect the flavor - be absorbed by the potatoes maybe?

I have some beautiful potatoes growing... in my compost bin (a plastic stock tank with a hole melted in the middle of it thanks to the horse that likes to play with the tank heater). For some reason, though, the idea of eating potatoes grown in rotting vegetation does not sound appealing...

Our growing season is iffy. Depends on the summer - some are hot, some are not. Sometimes we have frost in early Sept. and sometimes it holds off until Oct. This year we skipped spring. Well, not really. We had a nice day in April. Otherwise it was wet and cold. And now it's in the 90's all week...

Hmm, OK. I will get out there and do some more mounding, then! :) I didn't know if it would rot the stems or something.

A question about mounding - I'm not quite sure how to do that. You don't put the dirt right up against the stem, do you? When I planted them I did mound the dirt (not a foot high, though, maybe a few inches) kind of around the stem but not touching it.

Mary, I hope you can taste fresh sweet corn someday, too. It can't be beat. I don't know how well it would grow in a container, but some at the edge of your garden might work. It's hard for me to grasp that you don't have it available. It's one of those things I take for granted, I guess. We...

Oh yeah, the sweet corn is planted, too. Just not in the garden. The sweet corn patch is on the edge of our field by the barn this year. It gets moved every year. We will put electric fence (several strands) around it once it's up and growing. At first to keep the deer out, then the raccoons. It...

We finally got some warm weather and it finally dried out enough to work in the garden, so we finally got the garden planted this weekend! Growing in our garden this year is: strawberries, 3 kinds of squash, watermelons, gourds, sweet potatoes, tomatoes (LOTS of tomatoes), two kinds of lettuce...

Thanks Ridgerunner and Honeycomb. I have a little greenhouse that we just put up this year, so I'm going to put one in there, and a few in the garden just to see what happens. It will be an experiment. If I get some, great! If not, well, I guess I won't plant them next year. Honeycomb - how big...

I bought sweet potato slips on a whim at the greenhouse the other day. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. Plant them of course, but I'm wondering if I can put a trellis up for the vines to crawl up? How big do the vines get? Are they anything like squash and gourds? Do the plants...

I wish I could come dig grass out of your flowerbed. I miss dirt...

We're just over an hour south and west of Alexandria. It's our go-to town when we want to actually shop for things, or when we just need a change of scenery.

tuh-MAE-toe HPQ - that's a lot of scandinavian! No wonder we pronounce things differently!

Oh you all (or is that, "y'all"?) are cracking me up! Yes thistlebloom, I'm distracted. It happens quite easily - especially this time of year... HPQ, being from different parts of the state, (I think we live, what, 3 hours apart or somewhere thereabouts?) we must have different dialects. It's...

And it's working! :) (Clem-AT-is for me. And pee-OH-nee.)

*Jealous!*

Interesting - everyone I know here in MN pronounces it HEW-stun... How about peonies? pee-OH-knees, PEE-knees, or PEEa-knees?