Watermelon

**Fisher Lou** · #1 03-10-2009, 01:48 PM

Anyone have any tips on planting watermelon? Ive tried in the past with no luck. I have good sandy topsoil mix that works well with other veggies but my watermelons never produce. Im going to till a 10' x 30' this weekend. Any suggestions will help, Thanks. Louis

**kyle2601** · #2 03-10-2009, 03:52 PM

I have tried in the past as well with no very good results this time I planted my along my fence in a seperate area from the garden in hopes to water more and not suck my garden dry when I do water. We will see what happens.

**Meadowlark** · #3 03-12-2009, 06:35 PM

Lots of organic matter...e.g. manure.

**BEER4BAIT** · #4 03-17-2009, 09:29 AM

Start indoors early in sandy potting mix, lots of food and water organic works best or 12 24 12

**beer catcher** · #5 03-17-2009, 09:34 AM

My dad actually had some growing at his house. He threw out the watermelon rinds that had some seeds stuck to it, and out of no where he had a watermelon patch in the middle of his yard. It produced 3 good sized and sweet melons.

**Fishin' Fool** · #6 03-24-2009, 03:11 AM

The best luck I has with watermelons was when I used to raise chickens in a pasture. I fed the chickens an old Hemstead melon and they passed the seeds in the pen. The area really got wet in the winter so I moved the pen to higher ground. When I went mow the grass down in the spring - the whole area was full of some of the biggest melons I have ever seen. Never had much luck trying to grow them on purpose but they worked great on accident. I guess they work best if you just plant them in really fertile ground and leave them alone... or get you a bunch of chickens and well, you know, wait till spring...

**Pocboy** · #7 03-24-2009, 12:25 PM

Move to La Vernia where all we have is sand. We grew some nice watermelons last year but they took over the whole garden. I'm going to prepare a separate bed for some watermelons and cantaloupes.