I am usually lucky to get 50% germination of seedless watermelons. Followed your tip for clipping the end of the seed and got 9 of 10 to come up. Hoping for a bumper crop this year!
I have grown awesome watermelons once in my life. All others seasons I failed. The one that was great also ended up getting eaten by wild turkeys! I am cursed but I keep learning and trying. Thank you for the tricks.
Hi what are your thoughts on topping a watermelon plant ? when it grows to be about a foot long after transplanting, you top it to encourage lateral shoots to grow.
Travis you ain’t nothing but the truth. I’ve been gardening over 55+ years and the watermelon varieties of today surpass the variety’s I grew and grew up on by far when it comes to taste, vigor and disease resistance. I only grow tailgate seedless, yellow doll and sangria . AND growing them in chicken Doo-Doo tops. 👍🏽
I don’t mind dodo either, my raised beds needed toped of this year so first I added a little top soil mixed with mushroom compost, then toped the beds off the composted horse, cow and chicken dodo. Look forward to a great garden this year with all of those amazing microbes and biology in the soil.
i always wondered why the farmer down the road had a few huge piles of watermelons rotting on the side of his field every season. is that because hes tossing the seeded watermelons he used to pollinate the seedless? ive never ate the watermelons but the animals love them
Some good tips there. The wife and I tend to go with the Black Diamond or Jubilees, always seem to do fine in our area, they ain't seedless but sure enough plenty sweet. As an aside, chicken doo doo seems to do them fine too.
I don’t grow melons and not just because I don’t have the room for them right now lol they don’t grow very well in Oregon or at least not as close to the coast as I am
My watermelon seeds popped up today, I direct sowed mine. Thing is I don't remember if I put down any fertilizer when planting 😕 I'm growing the sugar baby and a yellow one I don't remember the name of.
I am usually lucky to get 50% germination of seedless watermelons. Followed your tip for clipping the end of the seed and got 9 of 10 to come up. Hoping for a bumper crop this year!
Awesome!
I was wondering why my seedless wasent coming up
I have grown awesome watermelons once in my life. All others seasons I failed. The one that was great also ended up getting eaten by wild turkeys! I am cursed but I keep learning and trying. Thank you for the tricks.
Hi what are your thoughts on topping a watermelon plant ? when it grows to be about a foot long after transplanting, you top it to encourage lateral shoots to grow.
Travis you ain’t nothing but the truth. I’ve been gardening over 55+ years and the watermelon varieties of today surpass the variety’s I grew and grew up on by far when it comes to taste, vigor and disease resistance. I only grow tailgate seedless, yellow doll and sangria . AND growing them in chicken Doo-Doo tops. 👍🏽
What was your cover crop?
Travis, how is the "duck" situation this year. I seem to recall you said there was only 1 left a while back.
There was only one as of last year, but haven't seen that one in a while.
Don’t forget the ducks 😊
Does your powdery soil blow away? I have some spots like that. How can i make it not powdery?
Just add bunches of compost on the top every couple years. This plot is due for more.
I don’t mind dodo either, my raised beds needed toped of this year so first I added a little top soil mixed with mushroom compost, then toped the beds off the composted horse, cow and chicken dodo. Look forward to a great garden this year with all of those amazing microbes and biology in the soil.
Good I which I have some
i always wondered why the farmer down the road had a few huge piles of watermelons rotting on the side of his field every season. is that because hes tossing the seeded watermelons he used to pollinate the seedless? ive never ate the watermelons but the animals love them
Yeah a lot of the big commercial farmers grow a non-edible variety as their pollinator.
Some good tips there. The wife and I tend to go with the Black Diamond or Jubilees, always seem to do fine in our area, they ain't seedless but sure enough plenty sweet.
As an aside, chicken doo doo seems to do them fine too.
I don’t grow melons and not just because I don’t have the room for them right now lol they don’t grow very well in Oregon or at least not as close to the coast as I am
1:3 ratio goes for all watermelons?
If you're not growing seedless, you don't have to worry about the ratio. But if you're growing seedless, try to maintain that ratio.
🦆 🦆 🦆 will love it too😊
Ooh my mouth is watering already. 😂❤
I guess it's silly but necessary to inform some viewers that if they don't like doing something in their garden, they don't have to do it.
hello from Washington, DC. My watermelon has not even germinated yet.
My watermelon seeds popped up today, I direct sowed mine. Thing is I don't remember if I put down any fertilizer when planting 😕
I'm growing the sugar baby and a yellow one I don't remember the name of.
Have you ever had a Tom Watson watermelons? That is the type I am growing this year.
I haven't tried those.
Question: On average, how many melons do you generally get per plant? I can’t imagine growing 2 rows of watermelons. 😮
I've never done the numbers. But you'll get a bunch from just two rows!
The fertilizer makes storebought taste like shit. I cant eat them.
Great info...I don't mind seeds though so I probably won't bother with seedless. Oh and welcome to gun show!
You doo you, and I'll doo me. Doo doo makes my stuff grow naturally. 🙆♂️🤷♂️
Pretty late start there
It’d be a whole lot cooler if you called it your chicken scratch system.
I thought the watermelon connoisseur was the Ducks?
All but one duck got hit by cars at some point. Haven't seen the lone duck in quite some time.
I remember used to give the neighbor duck some watermelon do they don’t come out no more or they don’t have them ? Ducks 🦆
All but one got ran over. Folks drive too fast and can't see.
Just wondering if you believe that adding molasses to the soil for sweeter watermelons. I think that it is just a myth.
Never have tried that.
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