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  • From: "Gary & Sarah Rowland" <hcf AT moment.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Watermelons
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 21:10:44 -0500

Look at the stem,there you see a little mini leaf where the stem joins the vine.  This leaf needs to dry up.  The stem itself on a green melon will have lots of fuzz where as the ripe melon will not.  Melons closest to the crown of the plant will ripen first.  With 2 acres you should soon be able to look and tell which are ready as they get a dull look as oppose to the bright sheen the green ones have.  Cut a few and it will get a lot easier.
Gary Rowland
Hairston Creek Farm
Burnet,Texas
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:03 PM
Subject: [market-farming] Watermelons

Hi all,
 
Does anyone grow watermelon?  This is the first year we're growing them and I don't know how to tell when the big suckers are ripe.  I've always heard when the stem starts turning brown but that ain't happening and they are huge!  None of them are jumping up and down saying "pick me" so I'm lost.  I heard Paul Harvey say take a broom straw and lay it on the melon...if the straw turns, it's ripe. That works for watermelon we've bought but I don't think he meant to take a broom straw to every melon growing on 2 acres.
 
Any ideas out there?
 
Thanks,
Pat
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