Watermelon "Sugar Baby"

Watermelon "Sugar Baby".
Intensively growing variety, ripening in 75 days from sowing. The fruits are beautiful and rounded, with smooth dark green skin.
The plant is medium-sized. The fruit is round. The surface is dark green with thin stripes. Weight 4-6 kg.
The flesh is an attractive bright red colour, juicy, tender, grainy and very sweet.
The variety is resistant to diseases and suitable for storage and long-term transportation.
Growing conditions.
Sowing seedlings in light nutrient soil, a month before planting in the ground. The seed placement depth is 3-4 cm. At the optimum temperature of +25+30 °С shoots appear in 10-14 days.
Plant out outdoors when the danger of frost has passed. Care consists of timely weeding, watering and top dressing.
Sowing: April (2.3) - May (1).
Transplanting seedlings: May, June (1.2).
Distance between plants: 60 cm.
Distance between rows: 100 cm.
Harvest: August, September.

HARVEST.
The last, no less important stage in the cultivation of watermelon and melon is fruit harvesting. In no case should you rush to harvest, often even fruits that have reached impressive sizes are unripe.
Ripe fruits are very fond of pecking crows, especially in hot and dry summers. Therefore, in a garden with melons and watermelons, you need to install scarecrows in a timely manner.
Determining the maturity of melon fruits is relatively simple: they acquire a characteristic colour and begin to exude the aroma of ripe melon. The maturity of watermelon fruits is much more difficult to determine, especially for an inexperienced person. It is necessary to focus on the following signs: the pattern of the bark becomes clearer and brighter, the wax coating weakens, and when tapped, the fruits make a dull sound.

Early watermelon.