Kelly's Watermelon, Pumpkin, and Gourd Farm

Jesse Kelley and his wife Louise run a melon farm. They has watermelons and other melons in the summer and pumpkins in the fall. They also grow a bunch of different kinds of gourds too. I don't know why they grow them ugly things but they do. Now the watermelons is always good, just as sweet, don't ya know?
And the pumpkins make good halloween jack-o-lanterns. But the thing what's real fun about Kelly's is that him and Louise raise real big watermelons and pumpkins. Jesse tells me he has the right kind of seeds (he's saved them up over the years.) He read that mixing peanut hulls with cow manure makes the melons grow big. Jesse went 'em one better; he mixed the peanut hulls in the cows food so the manure come out with the booster already in it. Then he knowed from what he read he needed shade for proper growth, so he got Slim Woodbury, the undertaker, to sell him a tattered funeral tent to put over his giant melons. And they do grow big.
Sometimes when peoples is looking at the big'ens lying there under that tent they takes their hats off, I reckon out of respect to Jesse and his growing skill. Or maybe it's just habit from attending so many funerals.

Tomorrow:
Harley Creek Echo Cave