Three year old woodchip on garden. Semi broken down. Germinated all my watermelon seeds on paper towels. I am breeding a landrace mix of all the watermelon genetics and selecting the strongest. Planted germinated seeds under the woodchips. A week later they started pushing through. One day I’ll switch to direct seeding them so genetically only those that germinate and sprout under woodchips will pass on their genes to the next seeds.
HEY PD!!! That's awesome. Do you add more woodchips every season? I said I was going to do the paper towel method, but I have not done it yet. I must think I will mess it up. I'm going to do a trial run, especially on peppers. I'm going to try a few spots for direct sowing.
@@GrowSomethingTastyI have not added new wood chips yet, it's starting to look like in will need to next year or year after. I direct sow a few things just to test as well. This years big test was trying towel to ground a variety of seed sizes to test them and less grow trays under lights for everything for lengthy time to start everything. Big things like squash seeds and watermelon seeds worked well. Okra worked alright but I had old seed and a few didn't pop up out of wood chips yet.i direct seeded radish and they did good. Tomatoes are towel to cups to grow out big for transplant I did two or maybe three towel to wood chips and have one growing well the others no sign. Beans are soak and direct seed before germination sign, still waiting on them. Towel to ground melons did alright. Cucumbers direct and waiting to see sign. Kale was direct and waiting. Did some marigolds direct and waiting. I plant more with towel to ground because plants are small and no plants in garden means wood lice or other seedlings munchers are hungry.
Hey Bear! I'm growing a lot of things this spring/summer, but watermelons are the main thing I'm looking forward to growing. I didn't get a great harvest last year, but I've changed some things up and have been watching your watermelon videos, so I'm ready to grow this year!!😊 I started my seeds indoors about a week ago and so they're just beginning to develop their true leaves. I went a little overboard and I have a million different varieties of different types of melons. For watermelon, I have jubilee, sugar baby, yellow doll, lemon drop, Leelanau sweetglow, Charleston gray, dessert king, orange tendersweet, orangeglo (as I'm typing this, I realize I have lost my mine planting all these) 😂😂😂) ...and..😂😂 Crimson sweet, moon and stars, and sangria,. 🤣🤣🤣 Now for the cantaloupe and other types of melons. 😂😂😂 I have canary melon, kajari melon, sugar cube, and crenshCrenshaw. That's all!! 🤣🤣🤣 I don't know where I'm going to plant all of these, but I'm going to have fun trying to figure it out.🤣🤣 I'm going to have to sneak some plants in my neighbors back yard.😂😂
HEY ChristineBackyardGarden!!!! Wow Wow and WOW!!! That is an impressive list. You are going to have fun placing all those. I started out with Jubilee. They are so good. I want to grow them again but don't know where to put them. I might have to try something.
HEY ES!!! Thanks, I appreciate it. The pup was in my fruit tree unboxing a couple of weeks ago, and he started eating my peachtree 🤣🤣🤣 it now has peaches on it.
HEY Speedbag67!!! I'm glad you found my channel. You are binge watching, COOL. I'm trying to get better at videoing and all the things. Thanks for the support, I appreciate it.
PlzGOD this is year i grow ‘em.. Thx4 inspiration Dear Watermelon Guru 🍉 👑 .. will try 2grow some vertically 4maxi sunshine 🌞 🍃till i cut food forest trees .. don’t rush Ur experiments..cinnamon yeippes .. ..yes yep puppy son .. entire family .. ‘n sell those PJ’s in Ur store too .. made me laugh because Egyptian side of my family wears spiffy pajamas allot too 😹💖🍃🍉only they call ‘em ba’jamas.. ,)
HEY Kawakeb!!!. That's great you are growing them. I appreciate the kind words. I will show my puppy in one of my videos. I think that's the 1st time I did a video in my pj's, ha ha. Cool, yall call the ba'jamas. I never would have known that. I learned something new.
i have started my sugar baby watermelon for the first time this year. my son inspired me to do it and i am so nervouse because its been a week and nothing has popped up yet
HEY,InuquSevonne, that is so great your son inspired you to do it. I get nervous, too. If you are sowing indoors, you can use a heat mat, but I'm sure they will come up. If it's still cool outside and you sowed them outside, it may take a while. Keep me posted, it they don't come up than replant some.
HEY, Wanda!!! I have to see if I have any left because I have only 1 pack, and if some don't germinate, I will have a few to replace them. I will have a lot for next year if I get a harvest.
HEY Silvester!!! I have a Golden Doodle. He is in the video Exciting Permaculture Food Forest unboxing of fruit trees. He is near the end of that video.
HEY, William!!! If I see that it's wearing off or see some fungus forming, I will reapply.. I just like to see a layer on top of my potting soil. I don't see fungus gnats as much either.
Three year old woodchip on garden. Semi broken down. Germinated all my watermelon seeds on paper towels. I am breeding a landrace mix of all the watermelon genetics and selecting the strongest. Planted germinated seeds under the woodchips. A week later they started pushing through. One day I’ll switch to direct seeding them so genetically only those that germinate and sprout under woodchips will pass on their genes to the next seeds.
HEY PD!!! That's awesome. Do you add more woodchips every season? I said I was going to do the paper towel method, but I have not done it yet. I must think I will mess it up. I'm going to do a trial run, especially on peppers. I'm going to try a few spots for direct sowing.
@@GrowSomethingTastyI have not added new wood chips yet, it's starting to look like in will need to next year or year after. I direct sow a few things just to test as well. This years big test was trying towel to ground a variety of seed sizes to test them and less grow trays under lights for everything for lengthy time to start everything. Big things like squash seeds and watermelon seeds worked well. Okra worked alright but I had old seed and a few didn't pop up out of wood chips yet.i direct seeded radish and they did good. Tomatoes are towel to cups to grow out big for transplant I did two or maybe three towel to wood chips and have one growing well the others no sign. Beans are soak and direct seed before germination sign, still waiting on them. Towel to ground melons did alright. Cucumbers direct and waiting to see sign. Kale was direct and waiting. Did some marigolds direct and waiting. I plant more with towel to ground because plants are small and no plants in garden means wood lice or other seedlings munchers are hungry.
that strawberry watermelon sounds AMAZING.
HEY Curlykiki!!! Yes, I hope they are amazing.
Growing watermelons are the sweetest reward
HEY BarronShawThiessen!!! 100% I agree with you.
Yes please let us see your dog! I love them!!!
HEY, Debbie!!! Ok, I will definitely do it since you love them. He is a Golden Doodle.
The Carolina Cross is amazing! I had a 60 lb watermelon when I first started gardening.
Hey Bear! I'm growing a lot of things this spring/summer, but watermelons are the main thing I'm looking forward to growing. I didn't get a great harvest last year, but I've changed some things up and have been watching your watermelon videos, so I'm ready to grow this year!!😊 I started my seeds indoors about a week ago and so they're just beginning to develop their true leaves. I went a little overboard and I have a million different varieties of different types of melons. For watermelon, I have jubilee, sugar baby, yellow doll, lemon drop, Leelanau sweetglow, Charleston gray, dessert king, orange tendersweet, orangeglo (as I'm typing this, I realize I have lost my mine planting all these) 😂😂😂) ...and..😂😂 Crimson sweet, moon and stars, and sangria,. 🤣🤣🤣 Now for the cantaloupe and other types of melons. 😂😂😂 I have canary melon, kajari melon, sugar cube, and crenshCrenshaw. That's all!! 🤣🤣🤣 I don't know where I'm going to plant all of these, but I'm going to have fun trying to figure it out.🤣🤣 I'm going to have to sneak some plants in my neighbors back yard.😂😂
HEY ChristineBackyardGarden!!!! Wow Wow and WOW!!! That is an impressive list. You are going to have fun placing all those. I started out with Jubilee. They are so good. I want to grow them again but don't know where to put them. I might have to try something.
Great video, and puppers are always welcome are camera! 🐾😃
HEY ES!!! Thanks, I appreciate it. The pup was in my fruit tree unboxing a couple of weeks ago, and he started eating my peachtree 🤣🤣🤣 it now has peaches on it.
Thanks for the cinnamon hack . I'm sprinkling it everywhere.😂
HEY, blkvixon!!! You are welcome. 🤣🤣 I know that's right. I am going to get more today.
Brotha is at it again with anotha great upload 💪
HEY, Wellerson!!! Thanks, brotha. I appreciate it.
Had no idea about that Cinnamon trick!
HEY AdirondackRuby!!! YES, I love it. It helps with fungus gnats as well.
I love watermelon 🍉!!
Me too. We think alike!!!
Here we groowwww!💚💚🌿🍉🍉🍉
HEY Marievay.den!!! You got that right!!!
Love watermelons 🍉 😊
HEY GardeningwithCoffee!!! Me too!!! Great minds think alike!!!
I have a small garden so I'm trying a couple mini variety melons 🤞🏼
HEY DebRoo!!! That's great. Melons are all great. Fingers crossed? You got this!!!
Awesome stuff... I just found your channel, and i'm startin' to binge)
HEY Speedbag67!!! I'm glad you found my channel. You are binge watching, COOL. I'm trying to get better at videoing and all the things. Thanks for the support, I appreciate it.
Yessss!!!!
HEY TheRealNolaD!!! OK Thanks.
I use solo cups and tin pans for seeding and bottom watering (el cheapo 😊
HEY Rawhoney!!! That all works, too. Good stuff.
PlzGOD this is year i grow ‘em.. Thx4 inspiration Dear Watermelon Guru 🍉 👑 .. will try 2grow some vertically 4maxi sunshine 🌞 🍃till i cut food forest trees .. don’t rush Ur experiments..cinnamon yeippes .. ..yes yep puppy son .. entire family .. ‘n sell those PJ’s in Ur store too .. made me laugh because Egyptian side of my family wears spiffy pajamas allot too 😹💖🍃🍉only they call ‘em ba’jamas.. ,)
HEY Kawakeb!!!. That's great you are growing them. I appreciate the kind words. I will show my puppy in one of my videos. I think that's the 1st time I did a video in my pj's, ha ha. Cool, yall call the ba'jamas. I never would have known that. I learned something new.
i have started my sugar baby watermelon for the first time this year. my son inspired me to do it and i am so nervouse because its been a week and nothing has popped up yet
HEY,InuquSevonne, that is so great your son inspired you to do it. I get nervous, too. If you are sowing indoors, you can use a heat mat, but I'm sure they will come up. If it's still cool outside and you sowed them outside, it may take a while. Keep me posted, it they don't come up than replant some.
Your a beautiful man
I'm growing jubilee, congo, allsweet, and golden honey
HEY @Me_and_my_monkey!!! That's a good list. I started out with Jubilees.
That's what my wife tells me🤣
I don't know how many come in a pack...
I did not count, LOL HEY email me at growsomethingtasty@gmail com just in case. Just so I have your email locked in
Are you willing to share some Strawberry watermelon seeds?
HEY, Wanda!!! I have to see if I have any left because I have only 1 pack, and if some don't germinate, I will have a few to replace them. I will have a lot for next year if I get a harvest.
Prayerfully you will have a great harvest!
What type of puppy do you have and let us see it
HEY Silvester!!! I have a Golden Doodle. He is in the video Exciting Permaculture Food Forest unboxing of fruit trees. He is near the end of that video.
how long do you apply the cinnamon
HEY, William!!! If I see that it's wearing off or see some fungus forming, I will reapply.. I just like to see a layer on top of my potting soil. I don't see fungus gnats as much either.
How are your melons growing?
HEY! I'm trying to get them in the ground now. They were growing great inside. How are yours?
The Carolina Cross is amazing! I had a 60 lb watermelon when I first started gardening.
COOL!!! I had on 70 pounds before something hit the vine last year