Sugar Baby Watermelon – 10 Seeds

(Citrullus lanatus)

R30.00

Round, dark green exterior, and deep Valentine red, very sweet and very juicy melt-in-your-mouth flesh.

Indoor Sowing: Not Recommended

Direct Sowing: Spring and Early Summer.

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🍒 Fruit Quick Facts

Fruit Info

🍽️ Culinary Use: Desserts, Jams and Jellies, Juices and Syrups, Pickled Rind, Raw Eating, Salads
🥗 Edible Part: Fruit, Rind, Seed
😋 Flavor Profile: Sweet

Growth Traits

🌱 Life Cycle: Annual
🌾 Plant Type: Herbaceous Vine
🔁 Fruiting Needs: Needs Only 1 Plant
🪴 Growth Habit: Spreading
🌸 Flower Color: Yellow
🦋 Pollinator Method: Attracts Bees

Growing Requirements

🌞 Sun Exposure: Full Sun
💧 Water Needs: Avoid Overwatering, Regular Water, Water Deeply
☀️ Growing Conditions: Frost Sensitive, Heat Tolerant, Not Cold Tolerant, Not Drought Tolerant
🟤 Soil Preference: Fertile, Rich Organic, Sandy loam, Well-Drained

Description

Sugar Baby Watermelon is well-suited for both home gardeners and the small market grower. Round, dark green exterior, and deep Valentine red, very sweet and very juicy melt-in-your-mouth flesh. Not seedless, but then, you’ll want to save this seed for next year!

Holds well in the fridge – even once cut. You’ll get 4-6 melons that are about 25cm across on 1,8m vines. 80 days.

Growing Sugar Baby Watermelon from Seed

Indoor Sowing: Not Recommended

Direct Sowing: Spring and Early Summer.

You can direct sow the seeds from the beginning of Spring to the beginning of Summer.
Watermelons grow best on sandy loam soils, with good drainage and a soil pH of between 6.0 and 6.8.
Soil temperature should be at least 18°C for germination to take place.
Seeds should be sown in an area that gets full sun.
Direct sow the seeds 2.5cm deep and 50 – 75cm apart, in soil mounds or ridges.
You need at least three months of reliably hot, sunny weather to grow and ripen a watermelon. During that time your average daily maximum temperature should be at least about 20-25°C