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Papaw’s Garden Supply: Helping The Next Generation To Grow With Nature.
Crimson sweet watermelon is popular for its sweet taste and refreshing flavor. The sweet crimson watermelon has light green fruits with dark green stripes on the rind and dark red fruit flesh. Crimson sweet is a tender annual that grows on vines that perform best in the summer heat. The crimson sweet watermelon variety requires plenty of sun and space to grow and produces fruits weighing 25 lbs., (8 to 10 kg) at maturity. They're the perfect size for slicing up for picnics or cutting into fruit salads. Crimson Sweet Watermelon is such a flavor favorite that it's often the standard by which other watermelons are judged.
How to Grow Your Crimson Sweet Watermelon Seeds:
- Suggested Planting Depth: ¼ inch in cells under lights
- May be started early under lights indoors and gently transplanted outside in approximately 3 weeks
- Suggested Direct Seeding Planting Depth: Sow to ½ -1 inch
- Suggested Planting Seasons: Spring or Summer
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Suggested Final Plant Spacing: 40-60 inches apart
- Suggested Planting Configuration: Single Row or Double Wide row block (4 feet spacing between each row)
- Maintain a weed-free mulched plant bed in Full sun and with adequate moisture.
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