I planted Gold in Gold watermelon this April24. They’re beautiful to look at in the garden. Tested one a little early. It was sweet but not to its best yet. Will be harvesting end of July24. Can’t wait! Going to try what you’re showing!
I'm growing these (the same variety) this year for the first time, looking forward to seeing how they come along. I've tried growing melons in the past with no success, but I've gotten much better at growing cucumbers and squash so fingers crossed that carries over a bit.
Beautiful melon! I am growing Early Girl and Lemon Drop. Not much luck so far, as the Early Girl split and the Lemon Drop's 2 fruits got blossom end rot at golfball size. I used bone meal but I wonder if I didn't use enough and that could be why I got blossom end rot.
@@toadstoolgardens9579 I live in Georgia but we have also had alot of rain most of the summer until about a week ago. I lost lots of seedlings both on the porch out of the rain and in the ground; leaves just disintegrating away. Not sure whether that was bugs eating them, fungal disease like damping off, or what, but it was alot of work down the drain. I've heard that even commercial farmers have been losing crops this year because of record rainfall in many states. It may be reaching the point that people have to grow everything indoors under grow lights the whole way. I know some commercial farms in Canada are already doing that because the environment is too unstable to produce a good crop.
I was given a starter of one of these but I rent and am not allowed to plant in the ground or make a bed. Do you think there would be another way to plant these (containers etc.)? I haven't had much luck looking into it or finding such info on this specific melon. May just have to gift it to someone else 😔
i have an insulated cover for my watermelons that i throw on towards the end of september, and my last harvest was in early november this past year (in missouri btw)
@@farrajj3288 I think the term you're searching for is open pollenated vs hybrid. Open polllenated plants will reproduce the same variety as the parent plant from saved seed. Hybrid plants require 2 separate parents, and saving the seeds from hybridized plants will give you mixed results from both parents, and it rarely will be exactly the same as the variety you saved it from.
