Our Wishy-Washy Watermelon

Gardening this year has been awful. Torrential rain and a chill at the start of summer turned into blazing heat with a drought in the latter part of July, which meant that our little gardens were almost entirely unsuccessful at producing much more than weeds. What grew? (Other than the weeds, that is...) Peppers, which we've had in (over)abundance with just a handful of plants, a few anemic string beans, and - surprisingly - one great, big yellow-fleshed watermelon.





Now it looked delightful, with its stylish pale yellow insides, but it turned out to be overly seedy and kind of sour. P. gamely ate a piece, and I ate a bunch, working around those huge, white seeds. But in the end, we tossed the rest into the compost and haven't picked another one. I am wondering whether it just needed a little more time so I might pick one of the others when I get the urge. In any case, we all had fun watching it grow and picking it, so the tiny amount of time I put into training the vines out of the lawn was probably worth the trouble.

What's your WORST gardening fail?