You need to tie in the vines regularly using soft ties such as garden twine, rope, or cloth strips. Tie them with a loose ...

From sowing the seed to harvesting a fully grown, ripe watermelon, here is a step-by-step guide to grow your own watermelons ...

Watermelons grow best in planting hills that are 4 to 6 feet apart to give each melon optimum space to blossom. Using a garden spade or hoe, loosen the soil and then raise each hill (or mound) to ...

The Cooperative Extension Service’s Grow Your Own Groceries Series has three new online sessions – each focused on how to ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — After the school bell rings, the day gets extra busy for Maverick and Landon Mairet. On Thursday, May 14, the boys began planting watermelons with their mom and dad in ...

Japanese plant breeders developed the first seedless watermelons over fifty years ago. Understanding the process requires basic knowledge of genetics. Plant and animal cells have chromosomes ...