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 Golden Midget watermelon. We harvested our first and only golden midget watermelon. I only had one seed that germinated so i planted it in the polytunnel. I left only one fruit on the plant. We harvested it when it was nice and yellow. The taste was ok but it was quite floury and not very juicy. I am happy that some of the seeds seem ripe enough so they should grow next year. I used the pollen of the male flowers to pollinate my blacktail mountain watermelons outside.

 Watermelons I had bad luck with my watermelons too this year. I now have only two plants with one fruit each outdoors from about 25 plants that i planted. One variety, Golden midget, where only one seed grew into a plant was put into my polytunnel to increase its chances. That plant has one watermelon that will probably get ripe so i should get seeds of that variety. Golden midget watermelon in my tunnel starting to turn yellow. Of the other 25 watermelons outdoors there was three varieties. Blacktail mountain, sweet siberian and cream of saskatchewan. I didn't label them so i don't know which is which but since they all have different flesh colours (white, red and orange), it should be easy to know what i have at the end. The trouble is will the fruit get ripe seeing that it's the 31st of august and the fruit isn't even full size yet. And more importantly will the seeds be viable? Chances seem slim but if we get a sunny month of september there might still be a chance...

Watermelon.  Trying to grow watermelons in a landrace type of way i this year germinated seeds of 4 different varieties. The seeds were really expensive. The varieties are Golden Midget, Cream of Saskatchewan, Sweet Siberian and Blacktail Mountain. Golden Midget showed really poor germination and all but one plant died on me, so the one remaining plant is really dear to me. The lone survivor of the golden midget seed. It has been really cold here and the young seedlings are struggling to grow. I am growing them in a polytunnel. I have grown watermelons before and the troble is to get the seeds to ripen and be viable. The darker they are the better. Hopefully i will manage this year to harvest watermelons with ripe seeds inside.