Watermelon

This is an acre of dirt, soon to be an

acre of vines and watermelons.

I have a friend who asked for help 

planting  watermelon seeds, 

on this acre of dirt.

We each got several rows and 

a cup full of watermelon seeds.

We were to poke a one inch hole in the dirt with our finger.

Insert three seeds.

Cover  the seeds.

Count out four feet and

do it again.

Getting our instructions

These were my rows.

And these were my seeds.

Now I know, 

I'm not in Redmond anymore,

I'm in Nampa...farm country!

Everyone had their own style of 

planting and pace.

There were mothers with young children.

Teenagers racing each other.

And then there was me...

I had so much fun being apart of this 

gathering and planting.

The watering process is called,

 flooding irrigation.

A long, large tube runs the width of the field

and then the "shoots" open up, every foot or so

and the water runs out.

The water then runs down the rows, 

until the field is

flooded or soaked.

Water running down the rows of  just

planted watermelon seeds.

Harvesting will be in 85 days.