Watermelon Golden Honey seeds

Citrullus lanatus
Pack: 7 seeds, 10g

Watermelon Golden Honey is one of the rarest heirloom open-pollinated variety. It produces nice round fruits with a light green skin striped with dark green colour. You can harvest 10-15kg of fruits in about 85-95 days.

Golden Honey watermelon has golden yellow, juicy, sweet and tender flesh with minimal large seeds. You could create a great vibrant looking fruit platter with red watermelon slices.

Companion planting: Try growing Watermelon with Calendula to attract pollinating insects which will, in turn, pollinate your Watermelon flowers.

Care & Growing Info

Watermelons are warm-season annual vines and need a long warm season to mature. Watermelon needs plenty of room to grow as it sends out long vines

Start them early, if you can. In temperate areas sow October - November, after all, the danger of frost; subtropical areas sow September - November; in tropical areas sow April - July, during the dry season. Sow directly where it is to grow 10 - 20mm deep, or start early in individual seedling pots, in cool areas bottom heat will be required. Seed germinates best at a soil temperature of 21 - 35o C. Seed will germinate in 7 - 14 days. Soil should be fertile, well-drained, with a pH of 6 - 6.5.

Prepare your soil with compost and well-rotted manure; deep digging is beneficial. The soil needs to be well-drained.

Space rows 1.5 m apart with 1m between plants on raised mounds. Avoid over-watering once the fruit is nearly ripe as this will make for a bland flavoured watermelon (also too much rain).

Slide a flat piece of wood underneath ripening fruit on the ground to avoid rotting from contact with wet soil. Harvest when the melon slips easily from the stem.

Harvest in 10-16 weeks. Compatible with (can grow beside) Sweetcorn, Sunflowers. And avoid growing close to Potatoes