If you want to grow watermelon in pots, you need to choose the right variety, container, and soil. Plus, you must give plants ...

Your favorite summer fruit grown simply in your own garden.

Grow a slice of summer right in your garden. Watermelons (Citrullus lanatus)are heat-loving plants that love to bask in the Southern sun. The vining plants are members of the Cucurbitaceae or gourd ...

Grow sweeter watermelons by choosing high-sugar varieties, planting in full sun and well-draining soil with added compost. Watermelons need 85–95 days of warm weather to mature; water regularly but ...

I recently learned about a watermelon the size of an egg that was hybridized in Virginia. The hybridizer is Delaney Raptis, a teenager who created this botanical oddity in her suburban backyard.