A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ M

This year I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day. I post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.

I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.

M is for Melon.  This is also a joke, as yesterday I had lemon. Melon & Lemon makes me think of this poster:

Of course I hav tried growing melons in my garden. I have only ever gotten ONE watermelon. It was the size of an apple and very bitter. There's something about growing melons I never understood.

And today was an example of an easy word being very hard to guess.

I had L U G A after three guesses. But I could NOT find a word that fit.
Even after the fifth guess gave me the pattern L _ U G _  and knowing that A was one of the other two I spend an inordinate time testing with all the black on light grey letters of the Wordle-keyboard. 

Certainly the solution had to be a very strange word, one I maybe did not even know, and I scratched my head upon finding LAUGR - old Norse for onion, and surely not todays solution.
I felt very stupid midways when L A U G _ plus H (now green) gave me the solution.
It earned me a well deserwed Phew!