When is the best time of year to plant and grow watermelons in the garden ?
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If you live in the cooler end of watermelon's comfort range, leave the monster-size melons to folks farther south. You'll have better luck with a small variety that matures early, such as "Garden Baby" (75 days from transplanting, 7 to 10 pounds), "Cole's Early" (80 days, 10 pounds), "Sugar Baby" (80 days, 8 to 10 pounds), and "Cream of Saskatchewan" (85 days, 8 to 10 pounds, with creamy white flesh).
Besides the classic pink, watermelon interiors come in orange, yellow and white varieties. The color has no bearing on flavor or sweetness, but many gardeners claim the nonstandard shades are more finicky and harder to grow.
Rind color, which can be solid, splotched or striped, in any tone from gold to near-black, seems to have no bearing on either taste or ease of culture.
If you want to save seeds for next year, grow only one variety: all watermelons cross-pollinate freely.
Watermelons are prone to fusarium wilt, especially in the north. To avoid it, rotate crops each year, plant disease-resistant varieties, and sow radishes in your melon patch - they deter cucumber beetles, which transmit the disease.
Melons should have been planted in early April to late. They are 72 day germination to harvest.
summer, more sun is better
plant in late spring and water, water, water. if you can plant them near a slow flowing creek, even better but they needs lots of water.
It takes approximately three months for a watermelon to develop and grow, and summertime is watermelon season, so if you had a sprout it would've been best to plant it around April (if you had seeds it would've been best around mid-late March).
In spring
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