Watermelons Everywhere in St. Bernard Parish
`This one is puzzling thousands of people. St. Bernard Parish, virtually wiped out following Hurricane Katrina, is seeing the spontaneous growth of watermelons. They’re everywhere! It’s a post-Katrina phenomenon that has even the experts baffled.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Dr. Ron Strahan of the LSU Ag Center as he surveyed the watermelon infestation.’