I’m unofficially naming this strain of watermelon the “Big Papa Yellow” after my grandfather. He gave me these giant-producing watermelon seeds this year that he’s been saving over time.
Since this was the biggest watermelon I’ve grown this year, I decided it was only right that I let my Papa and Granny get a taste of this one. Of course, we had enough for the entire family and then some. Not only did we have some good eatin’, I saved about 200 seeds for next year and got 2.5 gallons worth of rind to make watermelon rind preserves.
Please ingore the unshaven, unkempt me in the photo above and focus on the size of the melon. When I get to looking that scruffy, it means I’ve been working a lot.
Wow thats a really big melon!
how kilo was it.however it was really big.in Asia melon is red insight.
You don’t look like a theme framework developer.
I’m definitely not a theme framework developer when I’m at my Granny’s house. There, I’m just a country bumpkin.
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Nice melon you got that, but do come back and brag when you have eaten it also ; )
very big!
Stumbled across this – amazing! I’ve never seen such a great melon!
Brother that if this giant, huge, I think it reaches up to feed two families
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Thanks for sharing.
Wow this melon is huge, never seen something like that before
Wow that’s a really impressive specimen. Watermelon is very good for us as it’s loaded with a compound that increases blood flow, sort of the way that some of the performance enhancers do. I’m more used to the variety that has the red flesh, but a watermelon is a watermelon. Question though Justin. Just what do you use the watermelon rind preserve to do?
Mostly for eating. Preserves are really good with fresh, home-cooked biscuits. I generally give the jars of it away though as gifts since I don’t eat much of it. I like jelly more than preserves.
My gosh!! That thing is humongous. Is that a special variety of melon. If not then just how did you get that thing to grow so big?
It’s a variety passed down from my grandfather. I didn’t do anything special to them though. If anything, I neglected them for a while.