Watermelon With Seeds

By: Purple Slog

As I stood by an Amish farm stand in Pennsylvania, I found my thoughts going back to when I was a child eating watermelon in my grandparents big city backyard.
“Grandma, what do I do with the pits?” I then presented a fist full of pits in my left hand as I held a slice of watermelon in the other.
“Toss the seeds in the garden on the pile of coffee grinds,” Grandma directed as she pointed to the small compost pile she had that was mostly comprised of egg shells and coffee grinds.

Then some years later the pits magically disappeared from …read more