We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Whether oblong or round, the fruits weigh at least 15 pounds, but often more — enough to feed a small crowd during a summer gathering. Read more about how to determine whether you should start seeds indoors or plant them directly in the garden. This cultivar produces large oblong fruits weighing in at pounds each, with dark and light green striped skin.
With sweet, bright red, firm flesh, fruits will reach inches long and seven inches in diameter at maturity. Seeds are dark brown. Plants have a height of inches, with vines spreading to inches, and are resistant to fusarium wilt and anthracnose.
Packets of certified organic seeds are available to purchase from Burpee. Plants reach a height of inches and should be thinned to 36 inches apart, to allow for a spread of 72 to 96 inches.
This cultivar is resistant to fusarium wilt and anthracnose as well as sunburn. Expect a harvest in 85 days. This large, round cultivar weighs in at around pounds at harvest, and it has a light green rind with dark green stripes. Fruits have thick rinds, which hold up well to handling. Plants are vigorous, reaching heights of inches with a spread of six to eight feet, and are resistant to anthracnose and fusarium wilt.
Packets of seeds can be purchased from Burpee. This picnic-type heirloom variety can reach 24 inches long and averages 30 pounds at maturity, with bright pink sweet flesh, and a thin rind. Fruits have thin but tough rinds with alternating light and dark green stripes. Flesh is bright crimson, delicious, crisp, and its high sugar content makes it super sweet.
Plants are resistant to fusarium wilt, anthracnose, and sunburn. Although the rinds of these fruits are thin, they hold up well to handling.
Fruits have thin but tough rinds that are light green with dark green marbling. Flesh is pink, crisp, and sweet, with a fine texture and very small tan seeds.
Moving on from picnic to icebox type watermelons, we are moving down in size. Another advantage to icebox types is that they tend to mature earlier than most picnic cultivars, so these are generally better choices for gardeners with a shorter growing season. Or they can be grown alongside picnic varieties by gardeners who want to make sure they have an earlier crop to enjoy, as well as an abundance of fruit throughout the season.
Developed in Northern Idaho, this is a short season open-pollinated cultivar that will tolerate cool nighttime temperatures. Fruits are round with a dark green rind and sweet scarlet-hued flesh. And if your first frost comes early, fruits can be picked a little before full ripeness and ripened in storage, where they can keep for up to two months.
Wonderful for northern areas with cool nights and short growing seasons, this variety comes to maturity in just days. This icebox type is small enough to store in the fridge, producing round dark green fruit with sweet scarlet flesh.
This variety has good resistance to cool weather, cracking, drought, and sunburn. This space-saving icebox variety is available in packets of 40 seeds from Burpee. Small oblong watermelons are striped with dark and light green.
Flesh is deep red with a sweet flavor and crisp texture. The vines on this variety will spread eight to 10 feet and bear harvestable fruit in just days. If you love watermelon but really wish you could harvest single-serving fruits, then personal type melons are going to make your day. These cultivars weigh between three to six pounds, and are a delight to cut in half and eat with a spoon in one sitting. Personal type watermelons are also a boon for those of us with short seasons and a risk of early frosts — they are the earliest to ripen.
And for those with long summer growing seasons or gardeners in warmer regions who have gotten their garden off to a late start, they will make a delicious early summer treat while you wait for your big picnic cultivars to ripen, or a juicy delight to enjoy come Labor Day.
Round fruits are tiny, at just three pounds each, and they contain sweet pink-colored flesh with dark seeds. These personal-sized fruits have a high sugar content, which means their red flesh is super sweet. All they sell around here are the seedless and the personal varieties. Once in a while you might fine a big, juicy All sweet melon, but that was few and far between.
Had some unusual watermelon the other day. It was red with small seeds, but what set it apart was the amazing flavor. It tasted as if it had been misted with rose water. This is in Israel. Any guess as to the variety? So every cultivar is sweet, juicy, firm, and crisp.
All I really know is that most melons are juicy and sweet enough so a good watermelon is all about texture. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Did you know that there are hundreds of different watermelon varieties enjoyed daily.
Contents 1 Differentiating Between Watermelons 1. Related posts: Can Dogs Eat Watermelon? Comments Chris J Wade says:. Jimmie says:. Eric Oh says:.
Oh wow I never knew there were so many different variations of watermelon. Thanks for the info! David Kra says:. Tom says:. We are most familiar with the vivid reddish-pink flesh dotted with black seeds, but there are also white-, pink-, yellow- and orange-fleshed varieties, both with seeds and without. Watermelon can be divided into four categories: icebox, picnic, seedless, and yellow-orange fleshed. Each variety also features several types, and they vary in size, flesh color, and the sweetness of the flesh.
The icebox watermelon is so called because of the size of the melons—ranging from five to 15 pounds—which allows them to fit more easily in the refrigerator. They are bred to feed a single person or small family and include the Sugar Baby and the Tiger Baby varieties. The Sugar Baby has a dark green rind and sweet, red flesh; the Tiger Baby turns a gold color once it matures. Picnics are larger than the icebox variety, on average weighing between 15 to 50 pounds. Yet they can grow much bigger.
This watermelon was named for the fact that there is enough to feed a large group—like when you are at a picnic or a backyard barbecue. This is the watermelon that most of us are familiar with—oval-shaped or round, bright green rind, and deep red flesh. Seedless varieties are not truly seedless but actually do contain tiny, white, edible immature seeds in lesser amounts than traditional watermelons.
They were developed in the s with the idea that some people don't enjoy spitting out the seeds of a watermelon. Seedless watermelons generally weigh between 10 and 20 pounds and have the same sweetness as the seeded variety.
Inside these round or oblong varieties, the flesh will range from yellow to orange in color.
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