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Bayard

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1. Never heard that one before!

Reply to Duncanpup (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2025, 06:13 PM

Sep 8

I just look for the yellow spot on the bottom, and then thump them. If the thump sounds like thumping your head, its not ripe. If it sounds like your stomach, its mushy. If it sounds like thumping your chest, its just ripe.

We have watermelons going bad in the patch now because we can't eat them all, and friends have said--No more! Chickens and goats love them.

I can mail you one, Duncanpup....

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How to pick a good watermelon. [View all] Duncanpup Sep 8 OP

Never heard that one before! Bayard Sep 8 #1

Same here Bayard. Duncanpup Sep 8 #2

I am canning tomatoes and salsa Bayard Sep 9 #6

My recent surprise/shock opening one up was this: UTUSN Sep 8 #3

Made snot out, I laughed so hard some_of_us_are_sane Sep 8 #4

I would love that, but at my advanced age I couldn't even lift it, much less carry it home from the store and cut it. CTyankee Sep 9 #5