If your melons are under-performing, these simple tips can help turn things around. Nothing says summer like a juicy, sweet, homegrown watermelon. Depending on the variety, it can take between 70 to ...

Full watermelon growing stages were demonstrated in this time lapse of growing sugar baby watermelon from seed to harvested ...

The Tap Test: Watermelons are not a musical instrument, but picking a ripe watermelon will be music to your ears. Pick up the fruit and give it a light tap. If it gives back a hollow sound, it usually ...

The National Garden Bureau has designated 2013 as the Year of the Watermelon. Is that enough to encourage more backyard growers to try their hand at raising this traditional picnic/barbecue treat?

The favorite mystery of watermelon purchase or growing is how to tell if it is ripe, be it in the field or supermarket. For me, there is only one sure way to find out. But in reality, the method ...

If there is a fruit that epitomizes summer, it is the watermelon. This thirst-quenching fruit is recognized on Aug. 3 with the National Watermelon Day (nationalday365.com). Watermelons are ...

Just when you thought the gardening world would be content and that we didn’t need another new coleus, Mini Me Watermelon is rocking scorecards in university trials. Mini Me Watermelon is part of the ...