How to pick a Watermeon....

[rockin'robin]

From what I've learned and read.......How to pick a Watermelon: Everyday I see people banging on watermelons trying to pick the best one. Here's the real deal on picking the sweetest Watermelon:

1. Make sure it has a prominent yellow spot. This is where it sat on the ground ripening. No spot = premature pick = not ripe.

2. Look for "webbing". This is the brown, course web looking materiel. This is caused when bees pollinate the flower and scar the membranes that later forms the fruit. The more pollination = more webbing = sweeter fruit.

3. Look for black hard globs seeping out. This is sugar not insects or rotting.

 

[caz12]

is that the big red water melon or the yellow rugby ball shape water melon..i learn something everyday

 

[rockin'robin]

is that the big red water melon or the yellow rugby ball shape water melon..i learn something everyday

I usually go for the ball shape melon...but even the big one will still have a yellow spot where it has laid on the ground.

 

[Tousi]

I've read where some home gardeners treat their melons with great care. For example, they put a handful of straw under each melon and consistently turn them one way but not so much as to tear the stem and then turn them the other way all throughout the growing season. With those there's hardly any of that tell-tale pale spot....

 

[whatdidyousay!]

I see cucumbers with a yellow spot too , does the mean they ripe enough to buy too?

 

[caz12]

farm nearby grows pumpkin ,the farmer puts straw blankets under them coming up to hallowean he been known sit up all night with shot gun...lovely sight see pure orange coloured field