WATERMELON 

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Crimson Sweet WATERMELON 3g seed, USDA Certified Organic	Crimson Sweet WATERMELON 3g seed, USDA Certified Organic Check Latest Price 85 days. [Introduced 1964. AAS winner.] Medium-sized, striped melon with tolerance to anthracnose (race 1 and 3) and Fusarium (race l and 2). Melons are typically l0" x 12", weighing in the range of 23 to 27 lbs. Requires more space but has advantage of disease tolerance where disease is a prob ...
Amish Moon And Stars WATERMELON 2g seed	Amish Moon And Stars WATERMELON 2g seed Check Latest Price [Re-introduced 1987 by SESE. This Amish heirloom is possibly a variant of 'Sun, Moon, and Stars' introduced by Peter Henderson and Co. in 1920] Fruits have large yellow moons and small stars on a dark green oblong rind. Foliage is covered with yellow stars. This strain has a smooth, slightly rid ...
	Moon and Stars, Long Milky Way WATERMELON 2g seed Check Latest Price 95 days. [Developed by breeder Glenn Drowns. Introduced 1992 by SESE.] This elongated version of 'Moon and Stars' has a large yellow moon and a dark green rind, speckled with bright yellow pinpoint stars (resembling a panorama of the Milky Way). Selected especially for color and flavor this variety ...
	Moon and Stars, Yellow Fleshed WATERMELON 3g seed Check Latest Price [Early 1900 family heirloom from Georgia. Introduced 1987 by SESE. Years ago, a melon of this description was routinely shipped from Bermuda to some southern states around Christmas time.] This rare white-seeded, yellow-fleshed variety has good flavor though it is not quite as sweet as other melo ...
Strawberry WATERMELON 2g seed, USDA Certified Organic	Strawberry WATERMELON 2g seed, USDA Certified Organic Check Latest Price 85 days. [Selected from a Florida heirloom by Walt Childs and introduced by SESE in 1989.] 'Strawberry' is an excelílent garden variety waterímelon with intensely colored, strawberry-red flesh which ripens to within 1/2" of the rind. The texture is delicate and the sweet flavor is outstanding, d ...
Sugar Baby WATERMELON 3g seed, USDA Certified Organic	Sugar Baby WATERMELON 3g seed, USDA Certified Organic Check Latest Price 77 days. Space saving variety. [Introduced 1959.] Produces icebox-sized, 6 to 8" melons with a hard rind which turns green-black when ripe. Handles drought well. Fruits range from 6 to 10 lbs. with red flesh and small seeds. 'Sugar Baby' is a consistently reliable and widely adapted icebox melo ...
	Black Tail Mountain WATERMELON 1g seed Check Latest Price 73 days. [Developed by Glenn Drowns in 1977.] Small fruited, earliest of all. An excellent small fruited, fast maturing, highly productive watermelon that can be successfully grown in northern, cool short season areas or southern hot, humid, areas. 'Black Tail Mountain' was the earliest of 114 ...
	Quetzali PVP WATERMELON 2g seed Check Latest Price 83 days. This new watermelon topped our 1999 taste trials. The fruits have a pleasing texture and are very sweet. The rind is unusually thick, so loss to splitting tends to be low. Fruits are covered with alternating dark and light green stripes. Produces small (7 to 13 lb.) fruits. Pkt. (2 g) ...
	Northstar (Planet and Stars) WATERMELON 2g seed Check Latest Price 100 days This white-seeded “Moon and Stars” selection from grower Merlyn Neidens is an excellent producer. Large melons with sweet pink flesh and dark green rind covered with small dots and speckles can weigh in at up to 40 pounds. Perfect for family get-togethers and summer picnics. ...
WATERMELON (Citrullus lanatus) CULTURE: Culture of watermelon is similar to cantaloupe. Watermelon vines require anywhere from 36 to l00 square feet of vine space per hill, depending on variety. Be careful not to disturb watermelon vines while cultivating around them. Watermelons are planted in cool soil and seedlings emerge over a period of several weeks. When planted in good melon soil under good environmental conditions melons will do well but are not as consistent producers as some other crops. HARVEST: For most varieties, fruit is mature and most desirable during a 10- to 14-day period. It may take some experience to tell when a watermelon is ripe. There are four methods commonly used to determine peak harvest stage: (l) The spot where the fruit touches the ground turns yellow. (2) Look for the presence of a dried-up tendril on the portion of the vine nearest the fruit. (3) The rind feels slightly rough and has a dull, opaque appearance, whereas immature fruit are smoother and glossier. (4) When a watermelon is ripe, it will have a hollow sound when you thump it with your knuckles: the melon sounds more like your chest when it is ripe; when green, it sounds more like your head; when over-ripe, it sounds more like your stomach. Mark Twain described it this way: A ripe melon says "punk" when thumped, a green one says "pink" or "pank". SEED SAVERS: Isolate varieties by at least 1/8 mile for home use, or 1/2 to 1 mile for pure seed. PACKET: 2 to 4 g (about 20 to 77 seeds, depending on variety, average 39 seeds). NOTE: All watermelons are limited to two packets per variety.