What's your favorite watermelon variety? Let us know! 0:00 Intro 0:36 When Are Sweet Potatoes Ready to Dig? 3:55 Seminole Pumpkins and Their Huge Vines! 5:47 How Do You Know a Watermelon is Ripe? 9:07 Tasting Yellow and Red Seedless Watermelons 12:01 Measuring the Sweetness of Our Watermelons
Oh my goodness, you have the BEST helper around! It just makes me happy to see you and Titus enjoying sampling those watermelons! You are raising that boy right letting him use his wolverine claw out in the garden! :) ❤
The Seminole pumpkin grows really well for me here in OH as well. I’m sure we don’t get as many fruits, but it is a really hardy pumpkin. I use the Brix meter for testing maple syrup! I can’t get watermelon to grow like you can, but I do have a dozen mature sugar maple trees 😁
Lol....Cool kid!! I miss mine being that young. Nate from Mississippi here. I'm subscribed to you. I'm a new Gardner. They say watermelon are tuff so it's what I decided to go with. Enjoying your videos.
My Sugarbabies did very well really sweet and my chickens love them, also had Allsweet watermeleon didnt produce good rotten at the end, Now growing Mountain Sweet yellow looking forward for the yellow ones here in South GA.
Thank you for this video. It really made watermelon seed purchasing so much easier. I decided to go with the tropical sunshine 🌞. Can’t wait to try them😍
Im old school I reckon, but I prefer the seeded watermelon. I don't know the difference on the names and all but back in the mid to late 80s when I was 6-10yrs old my uncle grew probably a acre of the large kinda long ones light green with the dark jagged stripes. They were awesome. Enjoy the channel!
My first year doing seedless in MN. I’m growing orange crisp, triple crown, and harvest moon from park seed and ultra cool from ferry Morse. Found I had great germination without chitting the seeds. Did the perlite and heat mat with humidity dome trick and they started coming up in 2 days! Should have ripe ones by august 10th.
Nice Travis. Those are some good looking watermelons with the brix reading being a bonus. 😀 I have 3 baby Doll and 1 crimson sweet sizing up. So far, looks to be my best watermelon season.
We plant Georgia Jet every year its our go to sweet potato we are also growing your South Anna Butternut for the first time they are beautiful plants 👍
Love the yellow ones. I didn't know what to call them as a child. Seen a sticker with the Texas flag on it so i named them "Texas Diamonds" very sweet. Hard to find in stores.
We grew summer breeze and sangria as a pollinator. We liked them everyone loved the sangria. What is your favorite tasting watermelon to eat? And if its seedless what is your favorite to use as a pollinator? Thank you!!!
The Cracker Jack seedless we grew last year was pretty amazing. I vary the pollinator every year it seems. I just try to pick something that looks different than the seedless ones, although I didn't do a great job of that last year. lol
@LazyDogFarm happy new year!!! thank you very much. I'll probably try that one. I was thinking about a gurneys tri-x variety. But i would rather try something that I can get first hand review from. Especially from a watermelon connoisseur. Lol now have to figure out what I want for a good pollinator type!!!
Do you alter your watering schedule for watermelons when they are almost ready? I have about 7 watermelons at different stages. Two of them have tendrils starting to brown.
That claw reminds me of marks a bear left on some of my watermelons awhile back. The bear was clawing them as he rolled them out of my watermelon patch and into my field corn to hide while he eat them. He wrecked my watermelons and cantaloupes and flattened much of my corn. Then he went to my neighbor's and wrecked his bee hives.
Goodness. I didn't know bears liked watermelon too. Might make me second guess chunking watermelon rinds in the woods when we're camping in the mountains this fall. lol
@@LazyDogFarm They're relatively rare here. They often move down from the mountains in midsummer, especially if there is a poor mast crop in the mountains. I've heard they can smell a watermelon patch dozens of miles away. Coyotes have raided my cantaloupes but never bother my watermelons. I guess you go to the Georgia mountains? My father's people are from Gilmer County, near Ellijay.
Excellent video. Maybe you can be my guinea pig and grow yellow petite plants or leelanau sweetglo as your pollenizers. I want to see someone test out yellow petite if it is a legit sweet watermelon or not. Ive really liked ur seedless selection: trop. sunshine and orange crisp.
I live in lv and based on your heat units video am wondering if my watermelons are gonna stunted bc the heat pushes their ripeness too fast for them to develop full flavor.
Good video so I enjoyed it immensely I want to know do you have any seeds that you might want to sell because I would love to have some in my garden in the back of my house. Let me know if you want to sell some seats. Thank you very much.
One of my watermelons has a split which is about an inch in length, should I give up on this melon and take it off the vine or will it still be edible once it matures?? Thanks in advance!
Good question. It's my first year growing them. Ideally, I think you'd want to wait until the vines start to die back and the skin hardens. That's usually how you tell with traditional butternut varieties.
If the tendril is dry, reach down with one finger and see if the stem will pop off. You should never have to cut a watermelon vine. This is a much better way to know if the plant has gotten all the nutrients and is ripe. Its similar to a canteloupe. A canteloupe is ready when you pick it up and the stem pops loose or pops loose on its own. We all know you should never have to cut a Canteloupe vine right?
