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Tip for Sweeter Melon
If you like your melons sweet or feel yours aren't quite as sweet as they should be then about a week before you are going to pick them quit watering them. That will reduce the water in the melon and the sweeter flavor will come out. Works for me anyway!!
Ok, I understand about the watering. I'd like to know how you can tell that the melons are ripe enough to pick? I'm growing both muskmelon and sweet baby watermelon. Can you help me?
It is sometimes hard to tell on watermelons you have to kind of get a feel to know when they are ripe.
Thump them and if it sounds hollow that is a good indicator. I also look at where the watermelon rests on the ground when it turns from white to yellow that is another sign.
At the stem where you see the curly tendrils they will turn from light greenish to brown. that is a good indication your melon is ripe.
My muskmelon always seem to just fall off the vine when they are ready for picking. So far they have all been ripe.
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