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I have a friend whose garden I was helping to tend over the summer, as she  
stays in town near her job several nights a week.
 
She had planted tomatoes (done now), and peppers, and - for the first time  - 
melons.
 
Everything did - or is doing - well. Except the melons. Now, I don't know  
whether to call them melons or cantaloupes. They're the kind with all the  
webbing on the skin?
 
She was worried they'd be damaged by lying on the damp ground, and wanted  to 
make them some little macrame-type slings that would keep them growing 'up',  
and therefore dry. 
 
She works near the local WallyWorld, so I suggested instead that she just  
pop in and pick up a fifty-cent pair of thigh-high panty hose, and hang them 
up  
on the chain link to grow.
 
We started calling them her "Joe Namath Melons", for those of you old  enough 
to remember.
 
They were doing fine, until a couple of days ago, when she went out to find  
that both of them (there were only two, hence the 'pair' of pantyhose) had 
split  open, simultaneously at the bottom, and the ants were having their way 
with  them.
 
We had spent the summer alternately moving the hose, with a miniscule  
'drip', from tomatoes to peppers to melons, etc. Was it the sporadic watering 
 that 
did them in? Do I owe her two melons and a pair of panyhose?
 
Clues, anyone?
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 



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