These Little Tricks Will Make Your Watermelons Very Happy!

Awesome help! Thank you for clear and organized teaching.

When it comes to planting, always trust the guy in the overalls.

I have a raised bed 4x8 so I just pee in the soil once a week. Seriously.

Hi...i have a question..im planting watermelon and cantaloupe near cucumbers..will they cross pollinate if i want to save seeds from watermelon..im searching online and im getting different answers..thx

I definitely learned how important temp is for seed germination. I tried germinating watermelon seeds inside on a heading nat with a grow light and humidity done and got nothing. But the watermelon seeds I thought were bad (water float test) I tossed in a bowl of sand on my back porch about 2 weeks before it hit 70 degrees outside and after a week of consistent warm weather I had a bowl full of watermelon sprouts!! I didn’t even know what they were at first cause I had forgot about them lol.

I always add a small handful of organic lime around roots of any vegetable that is prone to end rot disease. Since I started doing this, I never saw a single end rot on any on my veggies.

I have six melon plants. I'm getting the micro boost you mentioned for them and I have 13-0-0 blood meal for nitrogen . Is that blood meal ok and if so how much of each should I mix together for the six plants I have? That would help me alot. Thank ya neighbor .

I'll subscribe because of this. Nice n SHORT, with everything I need to know. Zinc Boron Sulpher. Got it. I am planting a hundred or so watermelon and cantalope here in a few days. I'm doing it on a friends' farm where the soil is questionable. It was a hog pen a year or so back. Now I have been taught to plant my cantalope in mounds so I'm looking for something like that on utube. Really wanto learn how to grow and preserve cantalope and watermelon likd mad. I could eat a cantalope everyday for about a month, til I get tired of them. Will let you know how it turns out. The seeds I planted less than a week ago are coming out strong, but the patch of dirt I am planting on really needs to be tilled and broken up.

I live in SC I have just purchased Chilean nitrate but can’t find any instructions : is it too late to use once vines are already fruiting ? I don’t have drip lines just sprinklers for a large area - I’m not sure what quantities- should I just side dress? If so how much ? I can’t find any specific directions anywhere ! Thanks

Ouch! Sorry about your lip, I got hit on the lip before by a wasp, boy did that hurt!

as per usual, the video doesn't cover what the lay weekend farmer gets tripped up on dosing and frequency of fertilization.

I grow Jubelee

It looks like your dog is happy too.

This is the kind of guy I like to get my planting tips from.

Thanks for uploading, very helpful info.
How do you handle weed control?
My little patch gets out of control every year.

I just planted 6 jubilee watermelon seeds and they are growing so fast! I'm worried about my success transplanting them from inside to outside in my garden. I live in Kansas and it's been really windy and rainy. Trying to find out when I should transplanting them

Whenever I fertilize, even lightly, my melons die. What am I doing?

Borax will also kill a lot of insects

how do you harvest watermelons and not stepping on vines. Looking for ideas.

Great tutorial thank you

I love water melons 🍈

Please help ...dont wanna lose any more of my watermelon plants..

I think its nematodes...they are some what clear and range fro 1" inch to about 2.5" inches.......some have a pinkish head

What pesticide can i use

Good day hoss ....need help some type of worm is attacking my watermelon stems and the plant is wilting and dying need your help please on how to get rid of them .....

Friend of mine and myself looked for years for a old variety of watermelon which was grown in my area of SC. Finally found some seeds in a old guy's freezer, we brought back the garrison variety. Looks like a like a Georgia rattle snake, but white seeded and sweeter. It will also grow in my wet black dirt gardens where Charleston gray would blow apart after each rain.

i have some watermelon with about 2 leaves, in the ground. we keep on having a couple days of mid 40's all this month. Zone 9a. Is this going to permanently stunt the plants? Will planting new seed, out perform these? Later in the year.

I cook green beans just like she does, except with don’t cook them as long and I also add chopped onions

How many melons can I depend on on a single plant? I planted 5 plants and they're full of blossums.

I experimented this year and put some homemade biochar down in my rows this year and amended it with a little dolomitic lime later when I saw some evidence of blossom end rot on a couple. They're doing so well we've had one harvest already and they're setting fruit again so I'm going to see if we can get another wagon full before our first frost date! 😆 Love this video!

Picked my first crimson sweet today. The tendril was 100% brown tip to end, there was no yellow spot but I rotate it daily so i wasn’t expecting one. The melon was a little small but gave an impressive pop when cut and I thought I had something special. 😂 Was half pink half white inside. Now I’m scared to pick another

My watermelons started producing and then the leaves and vines started dying. The leaves turned black and shriveled up and now a wagermelon has a round black spot on one side. ☹️ what can i do to save them?

My father in law , who lived on a farm, grew the best biggest watermelons i have ever seen & best tasting! Also a big tall corn field and best tomatoes and every other vegetable. He lived in Crockett Texas. This was 30 years ago. He had very sandy soil. He had a green thumb for sure! When you are young you don't pay attention to such great information I wished I knew his secret. He could grow anything. plum trees, peach trees ! You'll are of course very smart & talented growers/farmers. I hope to be one of these days.thanks for your videos. ttyl

I feel like watermelons would be happy if I quit trying to grow them 😢

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Thanks for the advice very nice video.

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That was brilliant, thank you can we have more of that!!

Well-drained. Kills one idea I was considering, but it's good to know before I did it. I am considering the two-wheel hoe. Being on disability my income is tight so I have to make every penny count-my property os old farm country but, apparently it was used to store equipment. Has, just under the topsoil, a layer of gravel covering much of it. Does the hoe have something that can cut thru that? I can do it using a pickax and shovel easilly but it is an acre of full land to use-can't afford to mechanize it, don't have a horse to pull a plow so it is Manual Labor.

Are these formulas considered organic?
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So I have what I feel like is a dumb question lol. How do you know what your soil temp is? Is it generally "x" amount lower than the ambient temperature? What's a good guide, other than going out and actually measuring it?

Great tips. i Amend the soil then hill the watermelon rows and cover it with weed fabric for those weeds. This works great for me and got some big ones despite of heavy rains. There is still problems with high ph (7.2).

Thanks for the tip. Last year my crop was so-so. I’m hoping to get a good crop this year so my wife can supply us with lots of watermelon rind pickled relish.

I would love to see the progress of the new garden.

Thanks for the video! 👍🏻😃…. I have a couple of questions…… first is weed control when the vines start running……that watermelon patch is CLEAN ! Do you move the vines and till or cultivate around them ? I recently acquired a plastic mulch layer. Last year I tried spacing the rows apart wide enough to run my 5’ tiller through them. It worked great until the vines got thick then the weeds took over ( I work 2 jobs ) . My Hispanic friends grow their watermelons in narrow rows and spray a pre emergent herbicide prior to transplanting them. My grandaddy used to get up at 0400 and work the melons with a hoe until lunchtime, then nap and work a little more in the evening ( 2-3 acres of watermelons and cantaloupes , he lived to be 95 )

Any weed control suggestions for a busy Paramedic would be greatly appreciated.

I've been waiting on a watermelon video!!!!

Thank you for this tip. I love y'all channel and show and your son's also. I'm in 8b, South Georgia😁🌱💚🌿Blessings 🙏❤️

Thanks for the tips! Sorry about the bee sting.