New land, rich and fertile. That`s all I can figure. I never thought to ask any of my Elders.
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Your Favorite Watermelon?
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New land, rich and fertile. That`s all I can figure. I never thought to ask any of my Elders.
DannyW
Senior Member
My favorite watermelon is the one sitting in front of me. Never gave much thought to the name. I have probably ate most of them available here in Georgia, and can honestly say I have never noticed much difference between them.
NE GA Pappy
Mr. Pappy
a new field will always have the least weeds it's first year.
Big7
The Oracle
A COLD one.
Preferably a Stone Mountain or any of the seedless verities.
Redbow
Senior Member
Oh yes nic, new ground was very fertile. That's why the new ground grew the best tobacco plants rich and fertile ground is always good to grow stuff in. I have seen many gardens planted in the new ground as well, they produced a good crop of vegetables without a lot of store bought fertilizer.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
There are many times less weeds and diseases in new ground.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
So i guess the old timers would use new ground in the same way people put things outta rotation with a cover crop now.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
That’s one way
Dub
Senior Member
basstrkr
Senior Member
As I understand it new ground has built up organics from the vegetation that has died and degraded during the "laid by years".
I plant crimson sweets. It amazes me how you go out in the field during a hot cloudless day in July cut a melon and it's cool inside. Not cold but very refreshing.
I plant crimson sweets. It amazes me how you go out in the field during a hot cloudless day in July cut a melon and it's cool inside. Not cold but very refreshing.
Redbow
Senior Member
Yes sir, and I like that kind of refreshment just about anytime. One day decades ago some friends of mine and I were Dove hunting on a farm about a half mile from our homes. We finished our Dove hunt and were walking thru thigh high grass heading out to the road when I stepped on something that almost caused me to fall down. I took my foot and pushed the grass back and there was a big Charleston Gray watermelon hidden there. The man who owned the farm had harvested his melons several weeks before that September day but he somehow missed the one I stepped on. That melon was sweet, cool and delicious we were lucky to find it. But that wasn't the first time I had found a nice watermelon in a grown over watermelon patch around where I was raised.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
That melon served a very good purpose
Redbow
Senior Member
Indeed it did, my friends and I ate our fill of it and left some for a Raccoon or Possum come nightfall.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
The all within walking distance of home is the best part to me!
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
I agree that a watermelon refreshes you like nothing else on a hot work day. Its kinda odd how well it works. Also ive heard that the south is filled will outlaw watermelon thievin rings so be careful with em! 
oldfella1962
Senior Member
YES! Those are the melons I was talking about - thanks!
oldfella1962
Senior Member
That said I do prefer "seedless" watermelons. Also put table salt on my melons.
Iwannashoot
Pesident of the Fla Chaper Useless Billy club.
What I had always heard is that watermelons are very hard on the soil. That is they are able to pull most of the nutrients out of the ground so it is virtually impossible to recharge the soil enough to grow melons as successive crops on the same field.
Alot of the growers down here own aluminum irrigation pipe that they lay on the ground temporarily connecting the field to an irrigation pump. Next season when the field is "dead" they pick up the pipe and move to another field.
I do know the farmer next to our hunting place in middle Georgia only grows watermelons every four or five years. In between I've seen corn, soy beans, millet, peanuts and I can't remember what else in the rotation.
Black Diamond about the size of a foot tub
Boondocks
Senior Member
The best melon is a ripe sweet one close to the road.With that being said I have also sold 4 million pounds of melons a week to all over North America.
