Orlando Melon Mart
Reviews
Knife, baller, or a magnet
Shop notes, not star ratings. UF/IFAS watermelon is the paper on Grow. Central Florida can seed from January. A knife does not plant. A magnet does not replace 18 square feet. A tote carries a cut fruit.
If you plant a large variety you may have several 15 to 20 pound melons at once. That is why icebox size exists. Moon and Stars is an heirloom with yellow dots on dark rind, and it still wants the space.
Kitchen
Knife first if you have a whole fruit. Baller if you are serving bowls. Fork if you are outside. Buy them because the melon is on the counter, not because January is on the calendar.
Cut fruit already off the vine. Get this.
Scoop balls. This is not a harvest tool. Get this.
Serve picnic slices after the cut. Get this.
Carry
A tote is for a cut melon you are moving. It is not a substitute for row spacing. Full sun either way. UF/IFAS says watermelon is not fussy about soil type as long as it drains, which suits Florida sand.
Carry a cut melon, not a planting bed. Get this.
Door
Test the steel. A fruit magnet is last. A folded tee is later. Do not start with a magnet if the job is a January seed.
A melon shirt only if the souvenir is cloth. Get this.
Stick fruit on a steel door. Get this.
What to skip
Skip a giant variety in a 4-foot bed. Skip a baller if you do not have fruit. Skip a magnet as a January plan. Skip a tote as a substitute for row spacing. Skip planting in July because a shop card looks like summer.
Several 15 to 20 pound melons at once is the large-variety problem. Icebox exists so the fridge can hold the fruit. A knife does not change cultivar. A fork does not harvest. A tote does not replace 7 to 8 foot rows.
A city magnet is a place souvenir. A watermelon magnet is a fruit souvenir. Neither is 24 square feet.
Sets: Sets. Grow: Grow. Season: Season. Shop: Shop.
How the objects fail
A knife fails if you planted a giant in a patio trough and got vines without fruit. A baller fails if there is no ripe flesh. A tote fails as 24 square feet. A magnet fails on a door that will not hold. January seed in Central Florida is the window. July is not a second Central Florida window.
Sugar lives on Meet Sugar. Shop holds the catalog. Write sales@tabaconda.com if you need a plaque that is not on the wall.
Region window
North Florida waits until March and April. Central and South Florida can plant January through March because spring temperatures arrive sooner. South Florida gets December as a second shot. UF/IFAS is writing a temperature range, 70 to 85°F days, not a souvenir calendar. Moon and Stars is an heirloom with yellow dots on dark green rind. It is large. It wants the same 18 to 24 square feet. An icebox variety is the fridge-sized answer, not a smaller knife.