Recommended Varieties/Hybrids Many varieties and hybrids of watermelon are made available by agricultural research institutes and private seed companies. Examples include Arka Yamato, Jyoti, and Augusta. Most commercial growers prefer Sugar Baby because it generates high yield and has good taste. Sowing...
How to Pick a Watermelon from the Watermelon Patch (or Your Garden) Know the Varieties There are many varieties of watermelons, but they fall into three broad categories which are determined by how long they take to grow and mature: early (65-days), mid-season (80-days) and full-seas...
You should choose four or five varieties that you like. Try to select ripe fruit, but don’t buy fruit that is badly bruised or too soft. After you’ve selected the fruit, choose a crisp head of lettuce. Also buy one lemon. Be sure to wait until about thirty minutes befo...
How to grow Watermelons. Growing watermelon plants in your home garden, from seed to harvest. Watermelon recipes. By The Gardener's Net.
seasons. However, gardeners in colder climates can still successfully grow watermelons bystarting seeds indoorsor purchasing young plants from a nursery and by growing shorter-season varieties. Depending on the variety of watermelon, it can take between 70 and 100 days to go from planting to ...
watermelon image by Steve Lovegrove fromFotolia.com There are at least 1,200 varieties of watermelon commercially produced in 96 countries. These varieties range in size, shape, taste and color. Red-fleshed watermelons are the most common but there are varieties with cream-colored, orange, pink...
Top Watermelon Varieties to Grow in Pot Gold In Gold, Golden Midget, Belle 460, Golden Sunrise, Gold-N-Sweet, Jenny, New Hampshire Golden Midget, Precious Petite, Red Doll, and Solitaire are the best to grow in containers. Requirements for Growing Watermelon in Containers ...
Which you choose is a personal preference. What you should know is for seedless watermelons, some of the seeds in the package are different colors. Because seedless watermelons cannot produce fruit without a pollinator, seed companies include some seeded watermelon seeds to plant alongside the seedl...
Today there are more than a half dozen varieties of carrots that specifically bear the Nantes name, but more generally Nantes has come to embody a quite large (more than 40 members) class of medium-sized cylindrical carrots rounded at both the top and tip. In general, Nantes cultivars are ...
There are dozens of varieties of “Chinese cabbage” each with unique tastes and culinary attributes. All of the so-called Chinese cabbages belong to the genus Brassica which is a diverse group of vegetables that include cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, kohlrabi, mustard, ...