Growing Watermelons — Tips From Experts at Willhite Seed

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If you are thinking about growing watermelons this summer, you should check out Willhite Seed Inc. This seed company based in Poolville, Texas, has been specializing in watermelons for over 90 years. They currently offer 51 watermelon varieties! — 22 open-pollinated varieties and 29 hybrids.

Here are a few tips from the good folks at Willhite on growing this dee-licious fruit:

* Watermelons ordinarily are planted early in cold soils.

* Young watermelon seedlings emerge over a longer period of time (up to three weeks) than those of most other crops. One may plant beans, peas, sweet corn, radishes, lettuce, squash, etc., and obtain an instant good stand, but you don’t do this very often with melons — especially when planted by hand. Even under good conditions, it sometimes is difficult to get a good stand when you are growing watermelons.

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