Morning Glories: Summer 2011 - What's blooming in your garden? Part 1, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
I finally think I figured out the problem I was having with my watermelon fruit. I think they were getting dried out too much, so I am watering the roots every day, and using the leaves to shade the actual fruit as it is developing and ripening. I also read you have to keep the fruit from sitting directly on the ground because the bugs will get them. So I am using the concrete sprinkler guards to sit the fruit on. I have about 5 watermelons developing currently and the vines show no signs yet of slowing down! LOL! I hope I get at least one ripe watermelon out of all those vines. :-) These have gotten the biggest I've ever grown yet. Usually they start wilting and rotting before they hardly get bigger than a baseball. These are bigger than that, so I am encouraged that I might actually get some edible watermelon this year!