Summertime Is Watermelon Time In The South

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  1. Shirley Martin

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    My treat for today. It is the best one I ever tasted.

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    The pictures above show both seeded and seedless melons. Wife and I both agree that seedless melons largely lack the taste of a real (seeded) melon. Perhaps we've been unlucky on the few times we have bought the seedless thing.
     
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    Being single, I can't recall the last time I bought a watermelon. There's no way I'd eat it all by myself.

    That one looks good, Shirley.
     
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    After living in Georgia and tasting real, long-season, seeded watermelon, the seedless ones have no appeal to me but that is all we can get here. Apparently the seedless, tasteless varieties are gaining popularity even in the South.
     
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    Watermelon has always been one of the creature comforts in the North as well!
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    Oh come on Johnny and live a little. You know you enjoy getting up 10 times in the night after eating an entire melon. I live in the watermelon country of the north up here in cowboy land and buy melons right off the farm stands, What I do Johnny, since I am single, is use an ice cream scoop and scoop out the melon and put the scoops in tightly sealed containers and then refrigerate. I eat on the same melon for days. I try to do all my melon eating before noon so I won't be up all night.
     
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    Don, we grow a seedless variety that tastes just like the seeded. It has a few light-colored soft seeds in it that are edible. It is a smaller rounder melon and its flavor depends on how many hot days in the season. This year we have had a record number of triple-digit days with nights over 80 and the melons are the sweetest ever.
     
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    They just don't know any better since few grow their own now a days.They either drive down to South Florida where most of todays melons are grown or grow seedless hybrids.Tomatoes no longer have any taste either unless you grow your own from a good hierloom seed..
     
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    I have never bought a watermelon from the grocery store that was sweet. I think that, like peaches, they are picked before they are fully ripened so that they won't rot before they are sold. This one was locally grown and left on the vine until it was good and ripe. It was soooo sweet. :)
     
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    Newflash Shirley, they're popular up North,too!
     
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    The Japanese bred the seedless watermelons and the yellow and orange watermelons to be pretty and grow in their climate. In the quest for a shorter season and no seeds, some of the flavor was left behind. When we lived in Georgia, some of my co-workers who were life-long residents of the area would give us the watermelons they grew that were too big for their two-person family to eat. My two boys could eat watermelons until their bellies protruded. It was said in the area that watermelons were used as a snack and hydration for the tobacco field workers. The watermelons were planted all along the outer perimeter of the tobacco fields to save the farmers from having to provide hydration and nourishment to the workers.
     
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    One of my favorite too.
     
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    Watermelons are not supposed to be yellow or orange. They are supposed to be red ! Same thing for tomatoes.

    And potatoes are supposed to be white not golden.

    No matter what they say.
     
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    Potatoes can also be red and blue @Shirley Martin ;)
     
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