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Red Mulberry



I think what I have planted in a pot is a red mulberry.  I know it's some kind of mulberry.  Anyway, my camera is not working (one should be here today), so I can't take new pictures of it.  I want to prune it so that we can reach the berries when it starts growing.  The wild trees up the road are pretty tall and lanky, and there's no way one could reach the berries on them without a tall scary ladder or something.

My watermelons

I got one small watermelon out of my garden.  New ones start growing then sort of die.  We've had a lot of ran off and on, so I don't know if I've watered them enough or too much, but the new ones look like they rot.  One other small watermelon got a split in it, so I had to chuck it to the wild animals.




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