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I tried planting edible landscaping this year, but it's been working pretty poorly. I think I need figure out a better way to communicate the expectations with pedestrians.

So far 2 Cantaloupes have been taken well before ripening, an unripe green pumpkin was taken, an unripe bell pepper was taken, and they aren't touching the ripe tomatos or strawberries. So I'm very confused.

Maybe I'm expecting them to have too high of a base knowledge of garden plants? I may just move the garden inside the fence and build a small pantry instead.

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

The only time I've ever tried to grow these, they were so tiny. Yours looks excellent!

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Not sure what I'm doing right but my 2 plants have 12 melons between them. Though the others are probably 6" diameter.

Maybe it's because it's a fresh garden plot and while i do have a turf yard its got a heavy clover mix. So the soil isn't trash.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The fruit to seed ratio is the best I’ve ever seen!

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

?????

That is dead on average for closed cavity cantaloupe.

Some of the galia types would have a cavity of 30% smaller.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

it's far better to have a community basket that you place extras into.

your thought was nice, but people are savages who have zero clue how to take care of themselves.

I once watched someone peel a cantaloupe like an apple. think about that for a moment. whatever you're imagining is probably less stupid than how they were doing it.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

How exactly does one peel a cantaloupe like an apple??

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

they took a tourne knife in one hand, and the cantaloupe in the other hand. then starting from the top they began to spiral cut (poorly) thin shavings of rind.

they must have gone over it three or four times until it was mostly orange.

things didn't get interesting until the melon got all slippery and they not only almost dropped it 10 times, but also cut or stabbed themselves about 50 times.

total time to "peel", just about an hour.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Must truly have been an experience witnessing that.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

like a train wreck in slow motion and zero casualties.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's a good looking melon you have there.

I would have taken a tomato. I so miss ripe, fresh tomatoes.

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Literally the only kind of tomato worth eating

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

8cm diameter? So it's rather small.

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

21cm, its 8.25 inches.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

If you’re ever unsure of the scale, metric tapes are divided into 10 segments per unit. American tapes are divided into 16 segments per unit.

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago
[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Inches are subdivided in fractions instead of decimals. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 (sometimes you’ll see 1/32 but anything past that typically switches over to decimal since you’re not going to be doing mental math with that size anyways).

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I was sure it was inch, but the boneheadness to assume that everyone thinks in inches while only the US does annoys me.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

What the fuck does that even mean. What assumptions did OP make? Please use direct quotes.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Op assumed that by showing an unlabeled scale, everybody would assume that it uses outdated non-standard units.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Yea, that’s much more plausible than them just using the measuring tape they have at home while sharing the nice fruit they grew. Fuck off, main character.

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