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Melon  I bought a watermelon for dessert tonight. Watermelon is a sweet and refreshing low calorie snack. provides hydration and also essential nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Along with cantaloupe, honeydew, and cucumber, watermelons are a member of the Cucurbitaceae family. Watermelon is around 90% water, which makes it useful for staying hydrated in the summer. It can also satisfy a sweet tooth with its natural sugars.  Watermelon also contains antioxidants. These substances can help remove Molecules known as free radicals, or reactive species, from the body. The body produces free radicals during natural processes, such as metabolism. They can also develop through smoking, air pollution, stress, and other environmental pressures. If too many free radicals stay in the body, oxidative stress can occur. This can result in cell damage and may lead to a range of diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. The body can remove some free radicals naturally, but dietary antioxidants support this process.  My query is; I am going to make sweet watermelon pickles. Would anyone be interested in the Old Southern Watermelon Pickle Recipe if I were to blog it? otherwise I will save the effort. EDITED !!! The rind on the melon is too thin to make pickles with... even too thin for relish... Great tasting melon but very thin skinned |
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A shout out to the growers of Linn, Texas for such a nice melon. A LONG dang day in the hospital Dr is gonna look down one end and UP the other to figure out just where I am losing the blood at. They gonna KNOCK me out... Why does Three stooges come to mind? Just maidrites & fries for dinner tonight with a watermelon for dessert. Even if just one wants the recipe I will take pictures during the process for a blog.
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Oh no!! I just realized I didn't plant any watermelons!! My grand children are going to disown me!! Go ahead and post the recipe, I'll try it. Good luck tomorrow and I hope they find the leak and close it up.
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I am comfortable with my Doctor and feel I am receiving good care. Just have to combat this collection of miladies.
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Oh no!! I just realized I didn't plant any watermelons!! My grand children are going to disown me!! Go ahead and post the recipe, I'll try it. Good luck tomorrow and I hope they find the leak and close it up.
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Oh no!! I just realized I didn't plant any watermelons!! My grand children are going to disown me!! Go ahead and post the recipe, I'll try it. Good luck tomorrow and I hope they find the leak and close it up.
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I have a major drawback.... The rind is too thin to make pickles with. after I'd peal it the white rind is barely 1/4" I don't think I could even make relish with it. I will post the pickle recipe next summer after I buy a good old "Diamond back".
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No problem, since I didn't plant any, I probably wouldn't be pickling them anyway. If I buy watermelon, it doesn't last very long once opened. I am going to start a few seeds, it's not too late, I just have to find a spot for them so they can stretch out away from everything else.
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When we had a huge garden and canned and canned and canned all summer long, we often grew some novelty melons or squash. One year, it was banana melons and boy were they prolific! The kids loved them. They were yellow, medium size and oblong, and had a flesh similar to cantaloupe in texture, but a flavor a lot like a banana. At one time, we had so many of them that we had them laying under the willow tree on a board across two saw horses. I guess it was just the right height for a buffet for the deer, because one night a gang of them gobbled up most of the melons! I send well wishes for your tests and hope they can find and correct the problem. Joe had horribly large amounts of bleeding from diverticulosis at one time that he had several transfusions. They could not pinpoint the area of bleeding though. He is on a medication now and will take it the rest of his life, but he still has minute bleeding and I hemoccult check his stools every day and he has blood work every couple months to make sure his blood count stays acceptable. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Melon is so refreshing and tasty, I love it. I must buy some today when I go shopping. Thanks for the reminder. 
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funny u posted this, MY ONE MELON G PLANT IS FLORISHIN QUIET NICELY. I PLANTED IT AND ONE TOMS ON CLAY POTS.I HAVE NO TILLER SO IT WOULD HAVE TAKEING TO LONG TO DIG UP WITH SHOVEL, THE ONE PLANT OF EACH WILL BE MORE THAN ENUFF OFR ME. I WILL GIVE MOST TO NEIGHBORS
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When we had a huge garden and canned and canned and canned all summer long, we often grew some novelty melons or squash. One year, it was banana melons and boy were they prolific! The kids loved them. They were yellow, medium size and oblong, and had a flesh similar to cantaloupe in texture, but a flavor a lot like a banana. At one time, we had so many of them that we had them laying under the willow tree on a board across two saw horses. I guess it was just the right height for a buffet for the deer, because one night a gang of them gobbled up most of the melons! I send well wishes for your tests and hope they can find and correct the problem. Joe had horribly large amounts of bleeding from diverticulosis at one time that he had several transfusions. They could not pinpoint the area of bleeding though. He is on a medication now and will take it the rest of his life, but he still has minute bleeding and I hemoccult check his stools every day and he has blood work every couple months to make sure his blood count stays acceptable.
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Melon is so refreshing and tasty, I love it. I must buy some today when I go shopping. Thanks for the reminder.
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I have never seen those melons or I'd give them a try too. I am a fresh fruit nut. I am close to needing another transfusion. I appreciate all the thoughts and prayers. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I don't remember which catalog it was that he found them, but they were not available the next year, and we didn't see them again.
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