Few months ago, we planted watermelon seed and they are growing amazingly well,they were not planted on purpose though but it started growing so well, so we decided to take care of it.
Healthy watermelon
I must say the leaves of watermelon are really tricky, i almost mistook it for melons, popularly known as egusi in Nigeria.I wonder, how can someone easily differentiate the both of them.
Both plant does not like disturbances, for instance, the weeds on the loamy soil where taken out before they started spreading to avoid killing the spontaneous growth of the watermelon, it's like shaking them in their own natural habitat, atleast that's what I noticed from the watermelon ๐
Some dried watermelon leaves
We made one slight mistake of clearing out the weeds in one area, and the water-melon leaves started drying off.
They have to grow with the weeds until when to harvest if not they won't do well.
I noticed watermelon leafs is much more bigger and wide compared to that of the melon, the fruit of watermelon is actually bigger.
I was told it takes watermelon 3months plus to reach maturity, am still observing how it's goes, because this is my first time seeing watermelon growing.
All photos are mine
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