This tendril is white, so you'd have to wait until it's brown to pick this watermelon. (Walter Reeves for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) By Walter Reeves – For the AJC ...

If you want a perfectly sweet watermelon, one that's ripe, ready, and delicious, this one trick is the only you need, and it ...

There are two indicators: tendril and ground contact or "belly" color. A word of caution as you are checking your watermelon: Be gentle. Do not disturb the vines any more than necessary.

Once the tendril dries out and turns brown, the melon is ripe. Some gardeners give it an additional few days past ... you want to pick summer crops like corn and watermelon at their peak ripeness.

If harvesting from the vine, look for the curly tendril on the stem closest to where it meets the fruit. When this tendril has dried and turned brown, the watermelon is ready to pick. Advertisement ...

From sowing the seed to harvesting a fully grown, ripe watermelon, here is a step-by-step guide to grow your own watermelons ...

“Southeast, the Bootheel,” Trinklein said, is where most of Missouri’s watermelon crop is grown. The region’s sandy soil and ...

Q: When I was a child, my grandfather, a farmer in Ranger, instructed me on how to tell if a watermelon was ripe.He would hit the fruit with the side of his thumb and determine which ones had the ...