How do you know when to pick watermelon? How big does it need to be?
By Debora
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They can be various sizes depending the the type of melon you are growing. I have been told that when the melon is yellowish on the bottom but the rest is a good green it is ripe. In a store you can knock on a melon and if it sounds hollow it is ready. Not sure if that works in a garden or not. Another person told me if you lift the melon and the vine drops off it is ripe but if it clings on it still has some time to simmer :)
Went out to my garden last night to check my watermelon and made a discovery. One of the melons that grew first had a dead vine. It popped right off. The melon didn't sound hollow nor was the bottom yellow but I took it inside. After cleaning it up and cooling it off we cut it open and it was definitely ripe. Tasty little thing with lots of seeds. So if you look over your melons and you notice the vine has died or is about dead you should probably pick it.
As a note: all the other melons still had good vines on them and I left them for now.
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