Beginner Gardening: Watermelon Woes...or not?, 0 by Farmerdill

Farmerdill wrote:
Not familiar with Long Milky Way, but any watermelon planted in mid April should be ripe by now. Some cultivars are prone to splitting, Tastigold is the worst that I have tried. Sugar Babies normally get about the size of a shot. ( That's the iron ball used in the Olympic shot put, bigger than a softball but about half the size of a basketball.) Sugar Baby is not an early melon, but should ripening by now. The tendril should be brown and dry and the underside turned yellow. These were lined up to use in the watermelon shot put at the Tom Watson Watermelon Festival.