A Wild Watermelon Growing at Yards – Food Variety 33

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Nature works nicely and surprisingly where we may see many plants pop up in several places during Spring and Summer seasons.



Fig 01- A wild watermelon


Many people, include my neighbors have their our terms to refer to these kinds of plants, few of the terms are:

- rough plants

- volunteer plants

- seed dispersal plants


A little corner of our house just grown by an unexpected plant which produces a fruit, a watermelon.



Fig 02- Cardinal eating some seeds


In fact, this time around is a watermelon season in our areas.


We believe this “marvelous” was done by birds, since they consume this fruit and its seeds.



Fig 03- Climbing on the pole.


One of birds visits our yard frequently is cardinals. The birds love to eat watermelon and its seed as reported by Birdfact (2023: What Do Cardinals Eat? (Complete Guide)). Cardinals may help germination of plants.



Fig 04- Raccoon kids play around.


Another possible animal to disperse seeds is Raccoon. We have observed this animal in our backyard at a certain time.



Fig 05- A little wild watermelon


What do you think?


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21 comments:

  1. What a ınteresting post, thanks for your sharing...

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  2. ...birds and many other critters plant many things.

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  3. So amazing to see racoons in your backyard

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    1. we have some other critters

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  4. Some of our heartiest of trees were planted by birds. Hope you can keep those watermelons because they are quite expensive at the grocery store.

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  5. The critters eat up most of garden as it is. Amazing when they actually let something grow.

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    1. yes, they are...

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  6. It is already a watermelon season in your corner of the world. We (Italians) will have watermelon in July. But in early June we can buy watermelon that are shipped from Tunisia ... we have some cooler temperatures here so that will delay the start of the watermelon season. In addition, in June Spanish traders will also start importing melons and watermelons from Senegal.


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    1. our climate little bit warmer than Italy....

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  7. I bet tat raccoon would love to get at that watermelon :)

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  8. Watermelon must be a great treat for the birds.

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  9. Watermelon in the backyard just looks great.

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  10. What a great picture of the watermelon! We used t grow them when we had a big garden and so enjoyed the! We have two oak trees that started out with seeds that the squirrels or birds dropped and are really bug now.

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    1. We'll try to grow them next time....

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  11. Que belas imagens;
    Adorei a melancia...
    Boa entrada de semana.
    janicce.

    What beautiful pictures;
    I love watermelon...
    Good start to the week.
    janicce.

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    1. Indeed....love it.

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  13. Great photos! I am looking forward to a sweet watermelon. Love the raccoon kid.
    Sorry, I am late commenting! Thanks so much for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great day and the rest of the week!

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    1. sweet watermelon....

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