Harvesting Your Watermelons
Congratulations, you’ve planted, nurtured, and brought your watermelon plants to fruit! The next question is, when should you harvest your watermelons? …
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Watermelon Care: Pests and Disease
Watermelons are susceptible to aphids, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, squash bugs, squash vine borers, slugs, and snails. A good layer of mulch will help keep soil-based pests away from your …
Soil, Sunlight, Fertilizer, and Water for Your Watermelon Plants
Because of their need for heat, don’t plant your watermelon plants or seeds until about two weeks after all danger of frost has passed. Watermelon requires air and soil temperatures …
Growing Watermelon in Open Land, in Raised Beds, or on a Trellis
You have three choices for growing watermelons: open land, raised bed, or trellis. Unlike many other fruits and vegetables, watermelons simply require too much space to be suitable for container …
Growing Watermelon from Seeds or Seedlings
The keys to growing mighty watermelons, or small but tasty ones, are simple: sun, space, and water. We’ll get more into the details about all of these going forward, but, …
Choosing the Right Variety of Watermelon
Before you plant a single seed or seedling, you have to decide on a variety that fits your space, sunny growing season, and desired melon size. Because watermelons require a …
Pollinating Watermelon Plants
Seeded watermelon plants are easy to pollinate—let the bees take care of it. These plants produce both male flowers, which appear first, and female flowers, which have a swollen base …
Types of Watermelon Plants
There are three types of watermelon, of which different varieties will be either seeded or seedless. These are mini or icebox, picnic, and yellow/orange. …
Wonderful Watermelon: How to Grow the Fruit that Means ‘Summer’
In this month’s Food Gardening Magazine, you get everything you need to know about growing watermelon in your home garden—from planting watermelon and how to pick a watermelon to how …
