375 - Watermelon: What Can Go Wrong?
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Texas Plant disease handbook: https://plantdiseasehandbook.tamu.edu/food-crops/vegetable-crops/watermelon/
Preserving Workshop: https://journeywithjill.net/preservingworkshop
What Can Go Wrong Series:
Green Beans: https://journeywithjill.libsyn.com/256-green-beans-what-can-go-wrong
Tomatoes: https://journeywithjill.libsyn.com/193-tomatoes-what-can-go-wrong
Cucumbers: https://journeywithjill.libsyn.com/247-cucumbers-what-can-go-wrong
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Organic REV
The first thing to understand about REV is that it is not an ordinary humic acid product that is chemically-extracted from leonardite, lignite, or other coals.
Rather, it is a 100% naturally-occurring carbon, humic acid & fulvic acid source - along with exceptionally high levels of naturally-occurring microbial biomass
that can increase nitrogen efficiency by up to 25%. REV replaces depleted soil carbon & bacterial biomass - and absorbs nutrients to make them more readily
available to plants via their root systems.
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These garden grids take about 1 minute to set up, worry free watering: waters all of your plants evenly at their base so none of them go thirsty, Garden Grids™ ship in pre-assembled sections! No messy emitters or tangle of tubing. Just connect & grow! https://journeywithjill.net/gardeninminutes CODE JILL for 7% off your purchase
My Products:
2024 Complete Garden Planner
https://journeywithjill.net/shop/
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners Book: https://amzn.to/3TZeJux
Products I recommend:
Recommended Brands & Products page:
https://journeywithjill.net/recommended-brands-and-products/
https://www.amazon.com/shop/thebeginnersgarden
Connect with Jill:
Sign up for Friday Emails: https://journeywithjill.net/gardensignup
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I am so glad you're here. As we are heading into |
| 0:06.0 | July, I thought it would be perfect to talk to you about my personal favorite food, not just my |
| 0:13.1 | favorite thing to grow, not just my favorite fruit or vegetable to eat, but my all-time favorite food, |
| 0:18.9 | and that is watermelon. If strawberries are the fruit |
| 0:22.7 | of the spring, then I think we all know that watermelons are the fruit of the summer. There's |
| 0:28.3 | just nothing quite like a cold, fresh watermelon, especially homegrown in the heat of the summer. |
| 0:36.4 | Side note, if you're a big baseball fan and you're watching |
| 0:38.7 | them on TV, my team is the Atlanta Braves. That is one of my favorite pastimes growing up is |
| 0:43.5 | having a big hunk of slice of watermelon salted, of course, while I'm watching my favorite team. |
| 0:49.3 | That is summer perfection for me. But I digress. Because watermelon is my favorite food and one of my |
| 0:56.9 | favorite summer treats to eat, I for sure wanted to include that in my garden. In fact, |
| 1:01.7 | watermelon was one that I planted the year before my first official garden because it was that |
| 1:07.8 | important to me. And having grown watermelon for over 11 years, |
| 1:12.6 | I can tell you that some years I get all the harvest that I want and then some. |
| 1:17.6 | It's absolutely incredible. |
| 1:19.6 | But some years, not so much. |
| 1:22.6 | Like last year, wasn't the greatest watermelon year. |
| 1:25.6 | Today on the podcast, I'm bringing back a subject that we've |
| 1:29.7 | actually done in the past, in past years on the podcast, called What Can Go Wrong. Now, if you're |
| 1:35.4 | interested in any past episodes, we'll put links in the show notes to some of those, but what I'm |
| 1:40.2 | going to go through with you today is what can go wrong when you're growing watermelon, |
| 1:45.1 | what you can do to prevent some of these things, |
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