Watermelon patch - July 24th, 2006 at 02:28 PM
I am growing a patch of watermelons. The dimensions are 35'x20'. Three hills of three. The varieties are Jubilee, Moon&stars, tripple crown and ultra cool(1)seedless.
The vines are going bonkers! I have vines ontop of vines now and I can no longer get thru the patch it is so overgrown. The base of these vines measure almost two inches thick they remind me of pumpkin vines. It's been a very wet humid summer and a hot July which must be the reason they are performing this well. I grew one hill of watermelons two summers ago and they failed to ripen or get bigger than 10lbs and was real dissapointed.
This Jubilee has grown from cuke to basketball size in one week.
Two little Jubilee's I nicknamed the twins.
An Ultracool Seedless. My biggest looks to be 15lbs after two weeks.
Moon&Stars have been the slowest setting fruit. I finally saw several set this weekend, this little guy is one of them. I can't see any yellow stars on any of them yet.
I will post updates of my melon babies as they grow big.
The vines are going bonkers! I have vines ontop of vines now and I can no longer get thru the patch it is so overgrown. The base of these vines measure almost two inches thick they remind me of pumpkin vines. It's been a very wet humid summer and a hot July which must be the reason they are performing this well. I grew one hill of watermelons two summers ago and they failed to ripen or get bigger than 10lbs and was real dissapointed.
This Jubilee has grown from cuke to basketball size in one week.
Two little Jubilee's I nicknamed the twins.
An Ultracool Seedless. My biggest looks to be 15lbs after two weeks.
Moon&Stars have been the slowest setting fruit. I finally saw several set this weekend, this little guy is one of them. I can't see any yellow stars on any of them yet.
I will post updates of my melon babies as they grow big.