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(Best months for planting Watermelon in Australia - cool/mountain regions)

• Harvest in 68-100 days
• Grow in seed trays, and plant out in 4-6 weeks. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed.
• Best planted at soil temperatures between 21°C and 35°C.
• Space plants: 60-75cm

Large, round or oval, smooth green skinned, delicious, sweet pink fleshed melon.

Some have stripes on the skin.

Some varieties will produce fruit up to 14 Kg (31 US pounds).

Harvest when the part in contact with the ground is turning yellow and the fruit sounds hollow when tapped.

Watermelon needs plenty of room to grow as it sends out long vines

Needs a long warm season to mature.

Culinary hints - cooking and eating Watermelon

Cut up and eat in slices.
Use to make fruit drinks.
Use in fruit salads.

Your comments and tips

23 Aug 09 Jenny (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

how many watermelon types are there?

06 Jan 10 Kaye (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

My melons are only getting to the size of a walnut and then dying. What is the problem please?

15 Jan 10 Gillian (Australia - temperate climate)

i am a first time watermelon grower and i can say wow, the plant (1 only) is going wild. Does anyone have tips on right fertiliser/care

31 Jan 10 devo (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

im growing baby watermelons (orange) in a pot for the first time and they are about the size of an egg at the moment how big do they grow and when should they be picked.the growing guide seems very vague !!

02 Feb 10 Jungle Jack (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Our watermelons get to the size of rockmelons then go yellow and get no bigger, what's the problem? How many should we have on the one vine please? JJ

03 Feb 10 Natalie (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

When going seedless watermelon, you do need also a female variety such as sugar baby.I do have both variety and are growing well

20 Feb 10 Jo (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I am growing a variety of watermelon called "red rocket". These are supposed to be, according to the tag, large oblong-shaped with a high yield, however, the only 2 fruit I have growing are just the size of small rockmelons and appear to have stopped growing. The oldest of these 2 is about 5 weeks now. Are my expectations of what is called large fruit and high yield too high, or do I need to do something to help them along. I have recently used Dynamic Lifter For Fruit and Citrus in the patch but am unsure if this will help. The other problem is that, although the plant is very vigorous and has plenty of flowers, it doesn't seem to fruit, even though I've used the brush trick to help pollinate. The only thing I can think of is that it doesn't get a lot of sun, but if this was the problem would that not also affect the quantity of flowers and health of the vine?

23 Feb 10 susan (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

our plants are growing everywhere but now some leaves have gone lighter in colour. What does this mean?

24 Feb 10 lisa rias (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

HI MY WATER MELONS ARE GROWING EVERYWHERE BUT THEY HAVENT PRODUCED ANY FRUIT ONLY SMALL ONES WHICH DIE. DO THEY NEED MORE WATER?

04 Mar 10 dene (Australia - temperate climate)

hi i dont the variety of hand but my watermellons are growing well to about football size but are splitting very badly. does anyone know why? they are on retic getting water every morning.