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Re: When is Sugar Baby ripe? (was Re: lemon cucumbers/won't someone write a book)

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One other way that has always worked for me, on all watermelons.  Look at
the point where the stem of the fruit is attached to the vine.  There is a
tendril opposite the stem, and when the melon is ripe, the tendril is dry
and dead.  I picked a couple of melons that way that didn't look ripe by
other methods, but when cut open, they were ripe!
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>From: Janet Wintermute <jwintermute@erols.com>
>To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
>Subject: When is Sugar Baby ripe? (was Re: lemon cucumbers/won't someone
write a book)
>Date: Thu, Jul 29, 1999, 7:52 PM
>

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>At 09:01 PM 7/29/99 EDT, Bonnie asked,
>
>>If a sugar baby melon has a yellow ground spot does that mean it's ready?  It 
>>is about the size of a big cantalope.
>
>I grew Sugar Baby watermelons very successfully back in the early 1990's and
>don't recall mine having any yellow spot.  But they definitely don't get
>bigger than a good-size cantaloupe.
>
>Lift one without severing the stem and give it a rap with your knuckles.  If
>you hear that nice, not-quite-solid sound, it's ripe.
>
>Perfect icebox-size melons with few, small seeds and bright pink color and
>good flavor.  I can't see why people grow the big ones since they won't fit
>into a normal refrigerator without being cut....
>
>--Janet
>
>
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