Hello Square Watermelon World!
Welcome to My Square Watermelon! At last… a site for the planting enthusiast who likes to do things a little differently! This is about how a simple garden idea led me to growing my own square watermelon, and created a lot of garden fun and entertainment.
It all started a couple planting seasons ago in Toronto, Canada. I planted watermelon and tomatoes (among few others) and had this bright idea to make them square – like the Japanese growers who now brought the square watermelon out of myth and into the supermarkets (links).
Now, Canada is not the ideal place to grow the sun-loving watermelon. But after some exciting and challenging experiments I watched my square watermelon developed on the vine! It was a lot of fun.
However, this was not the first time I planted things that were off-the-wall. I grew (from a dried coconut) a coconut palm tree in a small apartment in Montreal in my student days that reached the ceiling and couldn’t go further. I also grew jet black bamboo and bamboo that reached some thirty feet in Vancouver, B.C. Bamboo in Canada? Yes, in Vancouver.
Just doing things differently or looking for other ways to make things work intrigues me. Blame it on my curiosity (or creativity?) However, I know there are folks out there who are just as curious and experimenting. I hope this site will make it possible to connect us.
’til then…
Maurice | Grow Your Own Square Watermelon
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