I planted my watermelons from seedlings on Mother's Day of this year (May 8, 2011). When trying to figure out where I went wrong I found this article very helpful for future reference; Harvesting Melons: How do you know when a melon is ripe? - , as well as this one How to harvest garden Watermelon. (Actually I truly NEVER knew after three seasons of attempts that it's actually better to "cut" the watermelon off the vine. I was doing the "slip" method). Using this last resource, if I count the number of days it's only been 66, so I'm shy of the 80 by approximately two weeks. (Unless I count time from seed to seedling by guessing what happened to them before I got them.) I have several more growing, so I'll assess the ripeness again in two weeks or so using my new information I resourced.
Of course I'll share the results, and would love to hear about your watermelon experience!
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