This summer I grew my own watermelon, and I can say without a glimmer of doubt that eating a watermelon fresh off the vine is the closest I’ve come to nirvana. They are difficult to grow so far north, but this is my third year growing them and I finally had such a bountiful harvest that even my dog got several her own watermelons! I must say I LOL at your observation that “No man can eat 6 kilos of watermelon alone (even if he wants to!)” The “Allsweet” and “Scarlet Sweet” watermelons I grew averaged 10-12 kilos, and for over a month I’ve been eating at least 4 per week. Am I sick of watermelon yet? I finished the last one at breakfast today, and now I’m researching online to select varieties to grow next summer!

In the words of Mark Twain,

“It is the chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.”