Gardening: Edible Plants : How to Grow Watermelon

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1. A type of wild African squash maybe. lol You are right.
2. GAHHHH! Different types of squash won't even cross with each other! Also watermelon was introduced to Japan thousands of years before the it was know in the Americas. It and several similar plants grow wild in Africa. I wonder if Yolanda thinks the horse was in North America in 1000AD and that the potato is native to India because it is called aloo over there.
3. This woman only knows how to eat, not how to grow things. Don't listen to her horrible advice. There's better.
4. @s6y9l Ok, so what info was left out?
5. Thank You. Your video was informative.
6. Museums Online South Africa list watermelons as having been introduced to Native Americans in the 16th century. Early French explorers found Native Americans cultivating the fruit in the Mississippi Valley. Many sources list the watermelon as being introduced in Massachusetts as early as 1629. Southern food historian John Egerton has said he believes African slaves helped introduce the watermelon to the United States. (wikipedia)
7. awesome vid so helpful 
8. lol when the europeans came over.....
9. some day ima grow up and respond harshly to helpful videos on youtube and use words like epic and fail and beiber and norris. yall are my heroes.
10. I don't agree on the negative comments - she has ALOT of experience in gardening & if you don't agree with her expertise, quit watching her videos....morons!
11. what happens if they cross pollinate? a pumpkermelon?
12. @ediblecrayonz watermelons are a nutritional powerhouse. Watermelon has the most nutrition per calorie of common foods. Excellent source of vitamin c, a high beta carotene concentration & a fair amount of vitamin A. They also have Vitamin B, especially B1 & B6 and pink or red watermelons have a high content of lycopene. They have a lot of potassium & magnesium. They don't lose as much nutritional value cut & stored in the fridge as other produce. 
13. In your dreams dude...Yolanda
14. @irish420Hitman it could be a hybrid
15. My volunteer melons come from composted melon seeds that didn't heat up enough before being spread in the garden. Hybrids are a cross between 2 varieties, so I guess they isolate them and artificially cross them. I've heard farmers complain about the cost of hybrid seeds, and that they can't just harvest the seeds for the next year. I guess the extra work is why hybrid seeds cost more. As a home gardener, the cost doesn't seem too much and the benefits of disease resistance, etc is worth it.
16. You can save the seeds and plant them next year, but you may not like the results. You won't know where the pollen has come from that fertilized the female flower. I have allowed volunteer melons to grow and have always been sadly disappointed. The leaves may be easily susceptible to mildew, the melons don't taste as good, or get as big, etc. Part of me really hates to pull up volunteer melons, but I do it anyway and replace it with a variety that is tested and good.
17. This lady knows little about growing watermelons. It is an old wives tale about not growing melons near pumpkins, cukes, etc. The fruit will still be good even if a bee brings some of the pollen from a cucumber to the watermelon fruit. However, always buy seeds--don't try harvesting seeds from the fruit for the next year. Also it is difficult to tell when the melon is ripe by sound. Look at the tendril and leaf (spoon) closest to the melon--they must turn brown before the melon is ripe.
18. What in the world do you get when it cross polinates?
19. I would just wait. I was thinking the same thing and magically just this morning I found three baby watermelons growing where some of the dead flowerings were.