Anyone out there grow a garden?

[wiperhunter2]

Watermellons are tough to figure out. There are several factors.you must look at when picking a ripe water melon: one is a curly at the vine right where the main vine forks to the watermelon, it is green when the melon is growing but will turn brown when the melon approaches full growth. Second,is the bottom of the melon, it is white before it ripens but turns yellow when it is ripe. Third, you need to learn how to THUMP the melon, a dull sound when thumping means the melon is not ripe, a hollow sound means it is ripe. Watermelons are tough to judge when ripe, especially the big striped green ones in my experience and they take for ever to ripen, Mine are just starting to ripen. The better type are the smaller dark green ones, I think they are called sugar babies, they ripen earlier but are a lot smaller. Hope that helps, I'm still learning myself after 27 years of growing a garden. Maybe someone else will add to what I have said and we can all learn a few things[]. WH2
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