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| Crimson Sweet just 3 days apart! |
I love watermelon. LOVE. So this year, now that I started garden boxes in a central neighborhood of San Diego, on a canyon with a whole lot of sun, I thought I'd try my hand at growing some. I forget where I bought the seedling, but it was only 2 bucks. I tucked it into the corner of one of my raised beds and thought it could grow over the side on onto the grown surrounding the box. I figured it would be a sprawling plant, but didn't think it would take over the yard... which it did. I took a few pictures below of the evolution of the watermelon vines. I didn't take any snaps of them fully growing, but imagine double the size of the larger picture.
Crimson Sweet is the type of watermelon. 20-30 lbs when ripe. So far, I've picked 4 big watermelons. Two of them have been super sweet and amazing, the other two were amazing but not as sweet. All good. It is a trip having a watermelon with seeds. Its like I had forgotten that they existed. I can't remember a supermarket in recent history selling watermelons with seeds. Nutty. You bet I am saving these seeds for next year. It is late in August now and I still have several small watermelons growing on the vines, though I don't have high hopes that these will be as good as the first 4. All in all, I've got about 100lbs of fruit off the one plant. Crazy. It is possible, by the end of the season, I'll have harvested 200lbs from the one plant.
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| Crimson Sweet about a month old |
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| Crimson Sweet 2.5 months old |
I'm pretty sure I'll grow these again, but they do go crazy with the vines. Any tips on pruning back watermelon vines?
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| First melon of the harvest. (Please ignore the fanny pack and weird hat hair do) |
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