watermelon
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Kitchen Gardening
How to Grow the Best Watermelon From Seed
On hot summer afternoons, we didn’t need much more than the shade of a mimosa tree and a watermelon to stay cool. My grandfather would split one open, spear the…
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Article
How to Make Watermelon Rind Pickles
You can make the most of your watermelon harvest by picking the rind to enjoy later. Here's a simple method for making these sweet refrigerator "pickles."
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Article
Taking the Mystery Out of Melons
One of the greatest tasty treats of summer is a sweet, vine-ripened melon picked from your own garden. The quality is unsurpassed and will put to shame the bland shipping…
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How-To
How to Harvest Watermelons
Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a new video series from FineGardening.com and our sister site FineCooking.com. We’ll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening associate editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Fine Cooking Web producer Sarah…
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How-To
How to Care for Watermelons
Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a new video series from FineGardening.com and our sister site FineCooking.com. We’ll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening associate editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Fine Cooking Web producer…
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How-To
How to Plant Watermelon
Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a new video series from FineGardening.com and our sister site FineCooking.com. We’ll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening associate editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Fine Cooking Web producer…
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Kitchen Gardening
Straw Bale Gardening (Part I)
Having read Straw Bale Gardens, by Joel Karsten, I was ready to try growing in my first straw bale.
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Article
The Year of the Watermelon
Thanks to the National Garden Bureau, 2013 is the Year of the Watermelon. New varieties, like ‘Harvest Moon’, are sure to be a big part of the celebration.
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How-To
How to Grow Watermelons
Make room for the sweet crunch of watermelons. They can even be coaxed to grow up trellises in smaller gardens.
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Kitchen Gardening
Make Room for ‘Moon and Stars’ and ‘Golden Midget’ Watermelon
These are the two heirloom watermelons in my garden this year.