Do you go ape over seedless Watermelon each summer?

[lxskllr]

Yeah just get the ones with a pointed tip vs round, should be easy to tell apart.

I know what you mean and agree with your "found food". Last spring, a raspberry vine sprang up on the edge of our property, climbed up a fence (a fence that we are going to tear down and replace) and established itself there. This spring it is absolutely loaded with new ripening berries and getting bigger. While I'm looking forward to the berries, I'm not looking forward to extricating the vines from the fence, finding a way to install the new fence without killing the vine and then help it re-establish itself on the new fence. If the berries produced are sweet and good quality then I'll figure out a way to preserve it.

Raspberries are pretty hardy. If you can wait until cool weather to do that section. you should be able to cut it off near the ground, and it should come back next year. I say cool weather because it's fairly dormant at that time. You may be able to do it right after the berry crop, but that doesn't "feel" right to me. I'm not a horticulturist, so take all that with a grain of salt.

 

[Anubis]

no i do not, i eat very little watermellon actually, its too hit or miss on tasting right. often its too grainy in texture and i havent figured out how to tell at the store if im gonna be pissed.

so i just stick to buying mangos, the king of fruit

 

[Doppel]

OK seriously something is up this year with watermelon stock. Everywhere I go has piss poor sized watermelons, they are really really small compared to last year. I assume there must be some larger impact on watermelon yields that are responsible for this. I think by volume the prices are up at least 50% from last year since I end up needing 1.5-2 to get what used to be the yield from one.

This article indicates most growers us irrigation, though so maybe the US drought isn't impacting it:

http://msbusiness.com/2012/07/extension-watermelon-crop-good-for-consumers-and-farmers/

 

[epidemis]

How do you grow seedless melons? I mean where do you get the seeds from? :O

 

[weirdichi]

My uncle won't eat seedless watermelons because he believes he'll become seedless like the watermelon.

 

[BUTCH1]

I love watermelon but buying one is risky, I've gotten overripe gushy one to underipe whiteballs..

 

[SlitheryDee]

I like the seedy variety better.

 

[brianmanahan]

"Do you go ape over seedless Watermelon each summer?"

warning, racism detected

 

[MovingTarget]

In my hometown, we don't usually go out and buy watermelon, we GROW it. We have a rather sandy soil and a warm, wet climate which makes melon a good crop. If you didn't grow any, you never set foot inside a store to buy one because there's always someone in the back of their truck selling their watermelon between where you are and any grocery store.

 

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[Lifted]

I've been buying seedless and seeded watermelons for a month or so at 29 cents/lb. Best price I have found in the city, but the melons are hit and miss. The first couple were amazing, both seedless, but since then I've bought a few that were pretty bad. I bought a small one once as it's easier to carry and it was horrible. Also bought a seeded and it was not nearly as good as the first couple of seedless I had bought.

The same thing happened with peaches. I bought a bunch when they first hit the shelves a month or so back, and they were AMAZING. Since then I've bought them a few times and I ended up throwing them out.

The farmers or distributors are obviously doing something between the first crop and what's sold for the rest of the summer. I'm not sure if they use some substance that has a formaldehyde effect to keep them "looking" fresh, or if they use some quick-freeze on them, but everything after the first week or 2 is just plain awful and inedible. I'm done buying fruit now for the rest of the summer.

 

[rcpratt]

Watermelon is truly the most disgusting fruit.

 

[tcG]

I know what you're thinking...

How the hell am I supposed to shove those in my ass? and I agree. The shape is completely wrong for sodomy.

Ahahaha, well done.

 

[Mixolydian]

Watermelon is too...watery. I prefer honeydew.

 

[fatpat268]

I've been buying seedless and seeded watermelons for a month or so at 29 cents/lb. Best price I have found in the city, but the melons are hit and miss. The first couple were amazing, both seedless, but since then I've bought a few that were pretty bad. I bought a small one once as it's easier to carry and it was horrible. Also bought a seeded and it was not nearly as good as the first couple of seedless I had bought.

The same thing happened with peaches. I bought a bunch when they first hit the shelves a month or so back, and they were AMAZING. Since then I've bought them a few times and I ended up throwing them out.

The farmers or distributors are obviously doing something between the first crop and what's sold for the rest of the summer. I'm not sure if they use some substance that has a formaldehyde effect to keep them "looking" fresh, or if they use some quick-freeze on them, but everything after the first week or 2 is just plain awful and inedible. I'm done buying fruit now for the rest of the summer.

I don't know what it is, but most of the fruit I buy is bland. The fruit usually looks, feels, and smells ripe. But when you bite into it, it tastes like... nothing. This applies to pretty much all fruits lately. Watermelon, peaches (especially), plums, grapes, and to some extent apples.

I'd like to buy locally grown fruits more often from farmers markets, but even then quality is iffy sometimes.

 

[CallMeJoe]

I've been buying seedless and seeded watermelons for a month or so at 29 cents/lb. Best price I have found in the city, but the melons are hit and miss. The first couple were amazing, both seedless, but since then I've bought a few that were pretty bad. I bought a small one once as it's easier to carry and it was horrible. Also bought a seeded and it was not nearly as good as the first couple of seedless I had bought.

The same thing happened with peaches. I bought a bunch when they first hit the shelves a month or so back, and they were AMAZING. Since then I've bought them a few times and I ended up throwing them out.

The farmers or distributors are obviously doing something between the first crop and what's sold for the rest of the summer. I'm not sure if they use some substance that has a formaldehyde effect to keep them "looking" fresh, or if they use some quick-freeze on them, but everything after the first week or 2 is just plain awful and inedible. I'm done buying fruit now for the rest of the summer.

Watermelons, cantaloupes and peaches are all still outstanding here, but most of the fruit I buy is grown within a few miles of the stand I frequent.

You might consider that much of the produce in NYC has been selected for resistance to damage in shipping rather than for taste and texture...


edit: Contender peaches this week, probably Bounty or Cresthaven on my next visit.

 

[BladeVenom]

OK seriously something is up this year with watermelon stock. Everywhere I go has piss poor sized watermelons, they are really really small compared to last year.

Look on the bright side, a lot of times smaller fruit equals a greater concentration of flavor.

 

[wirednuts]

its funny how bad seedless watermelon is. at first youre all like, THIS IS AWESOME CHOMP CHOMP and then all you can think is "this tastes like water".

ive had seeded organic watermelon that almost makes you pucker the flavor is so strong. youre supposed to eat the seeds too. at least thats what the watermelon plant wants you to do. then go crap where the sun shines.

 

[Hugh Jass]

I love watermelon, but IMO, the "old fashioned" seeded ones tend to be sweeter and have more flavor. (but the damned seeds are a PITA.)

This.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Watermelon is truly the most disgusting fruit.

Not even close but thanks for trying.

 

[Hugh Jass]

I love watermelon but buying one is risky, I've gotten overripe gushy one to underipe whiteballs..

Look for milky yellow on the bottom.