re: Tips on how to select the best watermelon

You put the palm off your non-dominant hand on one end of the Melon.

With your dominant hand, use your 2-3 middle fingers and slap into the other end with the fingertips only.

A ripe melon transmits a solid pulse that is richly felt. A melon that as not as ready will transmit a weak pulse. Move on.

Thump a few like this and you will notice the distinct difference when you go back to the perfect melon.

You’re welcome.

Get one from Smith County, Mississippi. You can’t go wrong.

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Nice yellow bottom

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High yellow?

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$6 a watermelon where I’m at.

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Where do you stay... I get mines off the side of the road back home in Monroe they 12$ now... I remember way back when they were 3$

1) Look for a orange spot on the melon. Yellow is ok, but orange is best.
Never white. The bigger the orange spot the better.

2) Make sure the stem is brown. (Or at least where the stem use to be). Not
green.

3) Lastly, look for bee tracks on the melon rind. Grayish/brownish marks.
The more bee tracks, the better. The bees know which are the best
melons.

Was at Wally World the other day looking at the melons and every single one of them had green stems. I passed.

You're better off going to a truck on the side of the road than going to Wally World for a good melon.

Sprinkle some salt on the watermelon for best results.

I have had trouble finding good watermelons at the grocery store. I planted both watermelon and cantaloupe this year. Hopefully both produce well.

The way I’ve always done it. Worked in produce for 15 years and got pretty good at it.

My first real job at age 15 was at a produce stand. Lots of 6:00AM mornings that summer. Overall not a bad job, but when the watermelon truck came and we had to unload a few hundred melons, I hated that shite. I didn’t want to see a watermelon for a few years after that summer.