Time-lapse of 91 days growing a banana melon plant from a seed to blooming. This variety is of the banana melon/cantaloupe, ...

Smith County and adjacent counties, like Simpson County, are known for their excellent watermelons. Sometimes, they come up on their own. That’s what ...

Harvesting melons at the perfect time is crucial to the best eating experience. Melons will have the highest sugar content if allowed to ripen fully on the vine, Kansas State University horticulture ...

A beautiful full moon cast its glow over the open field, with its raised rows topped with the vines of watermelon plants. Nestled among the large leaves lay hundreds of large ripening melons. This was ...

MILLBROOK – Whit Rawlinson picks the watermelons in his backyard patch with a wheelbarrow. And a hand truck. Recently he pulled a 61-pound melon from the vines. That was followed by two 52-or-so ...