WATERMELON Sugar Baby

Species : Watermelon
Latin Name : Citrullus Lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. et Nakai
Inscription in the europeen catalog as : Sugar Baby
Other usual names : -
Variety : Sugar Baby
Family : Cucurbitaceae
Origin : South Africa

Watermelon Sugar Baby : This is an early variety very productive of dark green colored fruits, with a bright red-orange, very sweet and juicy flesh. The vines produce plenty of 4 to 5 kg fruits, containing few seeds. Even small spaced gardeners can grow this compact variety. Watermelons can be eaten in different ways in fruits salades or smoothies.

Seed sowing : From March to Mai
Watermelon Harvesting : From July to September
Hight : Watermelons reach usually 15 to 30 cm
Exposition : Full Sun

Sowing instructions : Watermelons started under chassis or in greenhouse in March to Mai, in a depht of 1 cm. Transplant seedlings with the size of 12 to 15 cm hights, when there is no more danger of frost, spaced 1 meter apart in all direction in a sunny place of your garden. Or sow four to five seeds together directly in soil when outside temperatures warm up, thin seedlings out when the got 2 leaves, and water during hot, and dry periods.

Sowing space : 1 meter in all directions
Minimum seed sowing temperature : 20 °C
Seed germination : 6 to 8 days
Calories : 30 Kcal for 100 gr

Net weight of seeds : 3 gr = +/- 65 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.