Nothing ruins a juicy bite of watermelon like encountering a pesky, bitter seed mid-chew ... Some folks in Japan grow square watermelons that sit perfectly without rolling!).

To start with, those odd-looking square watermelons in the picture ... made seedless watermelons in the 1930s by exposing watermelon seeds to chemicals that doubled their usual pair of chromosomes ...

They’re actually empty seed coats and are perfectly safe to ... Farmers in Japan have perfected the art of growing square watermelons. In Japan, farmers have been growing cube-shaped watermelons ...

What you will need In order to make this square treat, you'll need to start growing a watermelon vine and wait until there are baby melons on it. Additionally, you'll need a box with which to ...

A few years back, there was a report that wealthy people in Russia were paying over $800 for Japanese square watermelons. In Russia, that’s supposedly 300 times the price of a regular watermelon.

In Japan, the sight of a square watermelon doesn’t stop shoppers in their tracks. They first appeared in 2001, the brainchild of a farmer who’d just had it with their rolling around in the ...

In Japan, square watermelons were developed so people could fit them in their fridges.