Jonesing for a yellow watermelon

[Bill in Oregon]

Used to be a guy with a trailer full of Texas watermelons and cantaloupes (pumpkins in season) who parked his rig at an abandoned gas station on Highway 82 -- the road from Alamogordo to Cloudcroft, NM, and for a few weeks each summer he had yellow-meated watermelons that were the best I ever ate. Hoping to find a local produce/fruit stand that sells them. I actually planted seed from one of those melons and got just one to ripeness, but oh, what a doozy that was!
Found this analysis of 28 varieties of yellow-meated melon and the Amarillo finishes at or near the top in most categories. Anyone else fond of the "yallers"?

https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/extension/upl ... Report.pdf

[GunnyMack]

I know 3 labradors that absolutely love watermelon and they don't care what color it is!
As you are cutting one up the kitchen sharks begin to drool causing puddles on the floor. Parker is the worst drooler, just flows like water downhill.
I try every year to grow watermelons. Normally it's futile thanks to the squirrels/ chipskunks eating them just as the melon is beging to form. Little bas.....
Pumpkins usually do better but not great.

[Bill in Oregon]

Will, our guys did the same thing and were even crazier for cantaloupe!
Here are three of the suspects watching me garden through a rain/dust-splashed door window.

[GunnyMack]

Yeah Bill, the sharks go for cantaloupe, honeydew, apples, pears, peaches, well you get it... they'll eat anything!
I've just come to realize they aren't just kitchen sharks but they are tiger sharks - ya know eat anything and keep on going in search of the next meal!
Although, Sage isn't crazy about strawberries.

[vancelw]

My grandfather (Bowie County, Texas) was a share cropper and truck farmer.
His pride and joy were his yellow meat watermelons.
It hard to find anyone selling on the roadside anymore.
Y'all got me hungry, now.

[Bill in Oregon]

Vance, I am so old that I remember a time when a grower was willing to cut a small plug from a melon for the customer to sample before buying to make sure it was ripe and sweet. Nowhere near the fruit stands these days that there were a few decades ago.

[Bill in Oregon]

Found one at H-E-B in Abilene yesterday, grown in South Carolina.

[GunnyMack]

Bill, Docs post about 45lc v 45acp v 410 slug has a yellow melon give its life for good video, ya might not want to watch!