WATERMELON - Crimson Sweet seeds

WATERMELON 'Crimson Sweet' - 10 HEIRLOOM Seeds

(citrullus lanatus)

Watermelon Crimson Sweet has tough medium green rind with dark-green stripes. Its fruit is nearly round averaging 25 to 30 cm in diameter with an average weight of 11kg.

Its flesh is bright deep-red with high sugar content and relatively few small dark brown mottled seeds. This variety is resistant to FW1, FW2, AN1 & AN3 viruses and it matures in 80 to 95 days.

Care & Growing Info

Watermelons are warm season annual vines and needs a long warm season to mature. Watermelon needs plenty of room to grow as it sends out long vines

Start them early, if you can. In temperate areas sow October - November, after all danger of frost; subtropical areas sow September - November; in tropical areas sow April - July, during the dry season. Sow directly where it is to grow 10 - 20mm deep, or start early in individual seedling pots, in cool areas bottom heat will be required. Seed germinates best at a soil temperature of 21 - 35° C. Seed will germinate in 7 - 14 days. Soil should be fertile, well-drained, with a pH 6 - 6.5.

Prepare your soil with compost and well-rotted manure; deep digging is beneficial. The soil needs to be well drained.

Space rows 1.5 m apart with 1m between plants on raised mounds. Avoid over-watering once the fruit is nearly ripe as this will make for a bland flavored watermelon (also too much rain).

Slide a flat piece of wood underneath ripening fruit on the ground to avoid rotting from contact with wet soil. Harvest when the melon slips easily from the stem.

Harvest in 10-16 weeks. Compatible with (can grow beside) Sweetcorn, Sunflowers. And avoid growing close to Potatoes