Yep, I will get manure and black plastic...I’ll give it the old collage try. They have just poked out of their pot, so have time to get ready.
One question. When I looked them up, there was a wide range of the size/lbs. I think the one that was brought to garden club was roundish and not very big. But, memory fades. I was surprised on different descriptions from 8lbs to 25lbs.
They are unpredictable. I think there are a few different strains and you can’t be sure of what you’re going to get!
When Beau was ‘courting’ me, he brought me a Moon and Stars melon he had grown himself. It was the elongated variety with one ‘moon’ and lots of ‘stars.’
He also courted me with winter squash, pork loins, a $37-dollar ‘organic’ butchered chicken, he found my dog when she was lost, built raised garden beds for me, took down aging and unsafe trees near my old house, bought me a lighter wood-chopping maul that I could actually LIFT and made repairs to my failing farmhouse gutters. How could I resist him? ;)
When we’ve planted them in years since, some years we’ve gotten the ‘round’ version, but also with one ‘moon’ and lots of ‘stars.’ :)