80 days. [Iraqi heirloom] Light green oblong melons, 15-25 lbs. Vigorous vines. Sweet red flesh has few seeds. The hard rind makes this a good choice for market gardeners and home storage. Great texture, outstanding flavor. Pkt (2 g)

100 days. [Reintroduced 1987 by SESE. An Amish heirloom, possibly a variant of ‘Sun, Moon, and Stars’ introduced 1920 by Peter Henderson and Co.] 15-25 lb. oblong fruits with large yellow moons and small stars on dark green rinds. Foliage marked with yellow stars. This strain has a smooth,...

73 days. [1977, developed by Glenn Drowns] Small-fruited, earliest of all. An excellent small, fast maturing, highly productive watermelon that can be successfully grown in cool short season areas or southern hot, humid, areas. The earliest of 114 varieties that Glenn Drowns grew in 1994. Round 9...

85 days. [1964] Medium-sized, striped melon with tolerance to anthracnose (race 1 and 3) and Fusarium (race 1 and 2). Great-tasting melons are typically 10 x 12 in., weighing 23-27 lbs. A unique feature of this variety is its ability to promote beneficial soil fungi that inhibit fusarium wilt. A...

It’s hard to improve on Crimson Sweet’s vigor and great flavor, but Pam Dawling is at it! Since 2001, she’s been saving this locally adapted strain, selecting for large, early melons with good flavor and healthy foliage. Pkt

76 days. [Alan Kapuler] Sweet, crisp yellow icebox melon, 5-8 lbs. Thin, light green rind. Short vines make this a great melon for small gardens. Pkt (2 g)

72 days [1959] Early, small 3-lb. melons with salmon-red flesh and a built-in ripeness indicator: the rind turns yellow when the melons are ready for harvest. (Don’t be alarmed by the leaves: some yellow foliage is normal for this variety.) Pkt.

85-90 days. [Russian heirloom] Very sweet reddish-pink flesh with small seeds. 10- 20 lb. round green melons. Needs a fair amount of room to grow, but not as aggressive as melons that bear larger fruit. Pkt. (2 g)

95 days. [Developed by Glenn Drowns. Introduced 1992 by SESE.] This elongated Moon and Stars has a large yellow moon and a dark green rind, speckled with bright yellow pinpoint stars (resembling the Milky Way). Selected especially for color and flavor, this variety has the largest moons and best...

90 days. [Early 1900s GA family heirloom. Introduced 1987 by SESE. Years ago, a melon of this description was routinely shipped from Bermuda to some Southern states around Christmas time.] Good flavor, the sweetest Moon and Stars variety. 15-35 lb fruits. Has some tolerance to disease and drought....

Unavailable for 2016. 90 days. This white-seeded “Moon and Stars” selection from grower Merlyn Niedens 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 lbs. Pkt.

85 days. One of the best orange-flesh watermelons. Very crisp, sweet, and flavorful deep orange flesh. Vigorous plant produces heavy yields of 25 lb. melons with light and dark green stripes. Pkt (3 g)

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83 days. Best of our 1999 taste trials. Very sweet, crisp 7-13 lb. The rind is unusually thick, so loss to splitting tends to be low. Dark and light green stripes. Pink-red flesh, small seeds. Pkt (2 g)

90 days. [1881, Peter Henderson Co.] Unusual blue-green mottled skin has a rough look like that of tree bark, and the rind is also as tough as bark; in Peter Henderson’s book Gardening for Profit, he enthused, “in 1884, a specimen of this variety left in our office stood a pressure of 1250...

95 days. [1923. A commercial bestseller from the ‘30s and ’40s - thanks to grower Rodger Winn for bringing back this old Southern favorite.] Slightly oval 30 lb fruits with a dark green rind and sweet, juicy red flesh. Thick, split-resistant rind makes it great for shipping and storage. Pkt (3...

85 days. [Selected from a FL heirloom by Walt Childs, introduced 1989 by SESE.] Strawberry-red flesh ripens to within ½ in. of the rind. Delicate texture and outstanding flavor, one of the best we offer. Long melons (8 x 20 in.), 15-25 lbs, dark green rind with darker green stripes, white...

77 days. [1959] Icebox sized, 6-8 in. melons with a hard rind which turns green-black when ripe. Handles drought well. 6-10 lb fruits with red flesh and small seeds. Consistently reliable and widely adapted, a good space-saving variety. Pkt (2 g)

80 days. [Rare today, white-fleshed melons were common in the 1800s.] High yields of 3-10 lb icebox-size melons. Creamy white flesh is crisp with a fresh, sweet taste. Green rind with darker green stripes, this unique white fleshed melon will be a hit at farmers markets or on the picnic table. Pkt...

85 days. The sweet red flesh and crisp juicy texture of this melon draws comments like “the best melon I ever tasted.” The unusual green mottled rind protects from sun scald. Thanks to Sand Hill Preservation Center and grower Merlyn Niedens for saving this excellent melon from near-extinction....