There is no taster and refreshing snack than a nice slice of juicy watermelon on a hot summers day, there are around fifty varieties of watermelon and four types, from the seedless watermelon, specifically breed for people who do not like spitting out the seeds, Picnic watermelons these are a larger melon variety, icebox watermelon these are typically sweet in taste and the yellow watermelons this type of melon is typically round in shape.
Growing watermelons is not an easy task they need plenty of sunshine and warm weather, the seeds should be placed in well drained soil usually on mounds around 25mm down and 1.0 meter apart, they need constant watering until germinated, planting seeds when there are frosts on the ground will kill the seed.
Once they have germinated mulch the soil around the plants to protect drying out and keep any weeds at bay, and they do not need to be over watered but keep the soil moist, watermelon like soil temperature over eighteen degrees Celsius, the plants will be ready to harvest watermelons in around three months once germinated
The time to harvest your watermelons will depend on several factors these include, when you planted them, how warm the temperature has been and how much sunlight the plants have received, they are generally ready to cut off the vine when the green curly tendrils turn brown this indicates the plant has stopped feeding nutrients to the watermelon, the surface of the melon will also lose the shine and be dull, and finally the surface of the melon that is sitting on the ground will turn slightly yellow when all three are indicated it is time to harvest them.
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