Not the best, or the worst watermelon. Review by Unknown
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These watermelons were somewhere in the area of average in taste.
These grew fairly fast.
Good for cooler climates( Zone 5 here).
The only issue was that there seemed to be little watermelon, after getting rid of the seeds..
(Posted on 11/18/09)
Inconsistent Review by Unknown
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Grew them for their small size. Got inconsistent yields both years I have grown them. Juicy, just very mild flavor..
(Posted on 12/25/09)
plants died before fruit ripened Review by Unknown
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We had a wet cool summer. I got a few softball size fruit but the planted died (cucumber beetles are a huge problem in m area) before the fruit ripened. The plants started out well and grew well (I had them covered with row covers until mid-July). As soon as I opened the covers to allow the bees to pollinate the seeds, all of my cucurbits in that patch started either wilting or turning yellow and the very wet conditions brought mildew. I was very disappointed and will try again this year..
(Posted on 1/31/10)
My first watermelons! Review by Grace13114
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I tried growing watermelons in my zone 4 garden several times, and the seeds had a low germination rate, or the melons didn't ripen early enough to harvest. With the green-skinned watermelons, usually I harvested the melon too early when the seeds were still immature, or the melon split and the ants got to it before I did. These seeds germinated quickly in my greenhouse in perlite. They tolerated being transplanted directly to the garden when the weather was cooler than I would have liked. The plants grew on the south side of the pole beans, in a row where pole beans grew last year. The foliage was dense and healthy. Each plant yielded several fruit, and continued to set fruit even around the time of the usual first frost! The best thing about these melons is that it is so easy to know for sure when they are ripe: the skin turns from green to pure yellow! These watermelons are even excellent when the skin has a small green area persisting. I carelessly left a few out in the garden until the vines died, but the fruit was just as delicious as the earlier ones. My favorite use for them is to juice them in my Blendtec high-speed blender, and strain the seeds out. The fruit is firm and delightfully sweet. The flesh was pleasantly darker than I expected. I had such a large harvest, I froze much of the juice in ice cube trays..
(Posted on 11/22/11)
