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Sow, not sew. 😅 I like to use the speak text but it often gets the words wrong.

Beets are one of the easiest seeds to straight sew into the soil. I actually think that by starting the seeds and then having to transplant them hinders their growth.😊

One more thing I would like to add the deeper yellow almost like a yellowish orange color the better. It shows it’s been sitting out longer and more ripenest.🍉😋

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No bee sting comments?

And that's why you have 6 legs 4 eyes and 1 hand. Stick with Organic

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You know how I know which watermelon to pick? I ask the Amish man at the produce stand. He has the best melons ever and I trust him 100%

I’ve selected three this week from the supermarket, all bad. One of them was slimy

This one is under-ripe! It won't taste good, I can say looking at the color. Property ripe ones are deep-red in color, and are actually a little hallow inside.

Thank you for the tips on how to pick the perfect one

Great show, thanks!

Not shown on this video: how 🔥🔥🔥 these poppers were. El Jefe F1 Hybrid Jalapeno Peppers are supposed to be moderately hot (4000-6000 Scovilles), but these with the seeds taken out made ones mouth still feel on fire. My fingers are painful from cleaning the seeds out without wearing gloves. Our drought and moderately hot summer temps are major contributors to that.

Knock on it has always work just well

We think you did a great job!

I don't like seedless watermelon

That rim was too thick...she should of push down and would have sense of that.

This picture of a watermelon literally took up half my screen in miniplayer form.

Yeah a pass for me on those yellow watermelon. Too overcook and too squishy. Yes sweet but texture wise my family are not a fan. So i need to pick one right before its ready to eat, place in frig for a day then slice when its time😂. They are always sweet. 😂 somehow got stuck with fruit picking

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Going by the brown stem, yellow belly, and hollow thud has netted me better than perfect watermelons for the last 20 or so times without ONE bad one.

I am an expert at picking melons. I pick 3 a week. I tap them, look for yellow bellies, look at the stem, and then most importantly pray it is sweet because I have no idea what I’m doing. The praying does help.

I want watermelon that has black seeds inside...

I'm more confused than ever! The last 10 watermelon's I have bought have had no flavor at all! I STILL can't pick one out, because everyone has a different opinion!

Don't matter cause they all suck anymore. Taste has been factured out a long time ago

Suggestion: How about a more scientific comparison: Assess 3 watermelons of same variety and roughly same size, but different "belly spot" and/or weight. Show the 3 recorded sounds (using some kind of standard thumping method), so we can hear the difference. Then, after deciding which we think will taste best, have someone extract 3 "blind" samples (you/we can't see which melon they came from), show how the flesh looks, and have 2 or three taste-testers rank them _without_ knowing which melon they came from. All love and gratitude to your cute 4-year-old tester, but most kids will love a watermelon almost regardless, particularly with nothing at hand to compare it to. Thanks!

terrific, thank you

Good advice, but there is some mis-information in this video, the brown stem is a must have, the thumping on the melon has absolutely no bearing on the melon taste, it's one of the biggest watermelon myth's out. the yellow belly is 100 % correct. goood video though.

@4:14 I thought the webbing is pollination points? The more pollination points the better...

Good advice! Please remind folks to thoroughly wash their melons; a knife will put that outside junk right onto your slices.

We got one that was rotten inside !

man when u get the right 1 mmmmmmmmm the best fruit

Here's how to pick a 🍉. Don't buy the light green or the dark green melon. Pick the green in the middle.

If it’s a big finger what does it mean?

Either her hands are enormous or that's a very small watermelon

You are the first one I have seen on you tube that actually knows what you are talking about.....the grocery stores tend to cut the brown stems off because usually that says the Mellon has been picked for a while and is probably over ripe....not good...if the stem is very green it was not ripened on the vine ...was pulled early but will ripen in a little while but will not have the full sweet taste that a vine ripend melon should have...you want some green in the stem...you are right on !! Good job!🇺🇲🙂😉

Hysterical, ask 10 watermelon experts and you’ll get 10 different opinions 😂

I'm confused too about the belly button.

I've always looked to the sound as the main indicator of ripeness. I set it on my shoulder, with my ear against the melon and thump the melon. It should sound reminiscent to the sound I get thumping my head.

I just watched another video where he said to buy the brown belly button. He bought it, cut it and it was beautiful and juicy. So, now I'm confused.

Good video, worthy of the upvote. It could get even better by giving more emphasis to the sound, which is the hardest to judge, and compare it to that of an unripe and also an overripe melon.

It would be helpful if you pick & show the not so good one.

We have grown this one, but it always takes longer than 42 Days.😉

Thank You for posting this. I have raised a many tomatoes and have always had a lot of blight. Your tomatoes are beautiful for being September. Count me in on trying this!

This is how my grandmother grew them, and she always had healthy plants that produced heavily. All 'heirlooms', which were just 'tomatoes' back then. Thank you for sharing it brings back many memories.

Great info in this video! There are definitely some pros and cons to pruning - I'll have to spend some more time seeing what works for me and when with my tomato plants!

I have tried in vain for years to grow tomatoes that didn't die in August of blight, caged, pruned, sprayed, big plant, soaked hoses, eggshells. The thing I didn't do is all the steps you listed. I guess I will try your method this next year and see of it works. I dont have anything to lose because all I grow are tomatoes that die before they produce much. Thanks for the info and teaching this old dog some new tricks, Rob

How do you tell too hollow from a normal thud knocking?

Hey, Mertie. Sorry for the low comments, but my wife is distressing over choosing watermelons which are POOR in taste. Thank you for your Professional insight. Dad had his way of thumping and smelling now I have your way. Thanks! From Texas, close to Luling..👍