I went to the local Walmart in Bowie, Tx last week on Thursday to buy a commode tank seal repair kit. As I was walking into the store thru the garden center, I noticed they had two big boxes of watermelons marked down to $2.50 each. I was really excited to see they were seedless and looked/felt good with no soft spots. I picked a huge melon and put it in my cart. When I got home, I put it in my walkout basement rec room beside the refrigerator and promptly forgot about it until Sunday afternoon. I brought it up to our kitchen and cut the melon. It was perfect. I put Saran Wrap over half the melon and the other half my wife cut into pieces and put them into a 1-gal Ziploc bag. There was so much melon that it wouldn't all fit in the bag and she filled a big cereal bowl with the remaining melon. Yesterday it was nice and cold, so I had the bowl of melon for lunch. Wow! It was terrific. I don't think I've ever had a sweeter melon. I had more melon for breakfast this morning with some cantaloupe from our garden.
I don't know when I last saw watermelons for $2.50, but I certainly cannot grow them for that price. I'm tempted to go back to Walmart and see if they have more still for sale. Being in the garden center this time of year is like putting them out on the loading dock. There just isn't that much customer traffic. If the rest of those melons are as good as the one I bought, I'll be eating great watermelon the rest of this month. I've already picked and eaten all of my own melons, and I'm not sure the four I have growing will make it, but why would I want to worry if I can buy them for next to nothing.:thumbsup:
