Any help on overgrown watermelons?

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I know it's unusual of me to post something like this but I need suggestions, it's growing all around the bed and there are 20 plants, the watermelons are 1/3 of my finger and are teeny tiny.

Quality not the best but it works I guess.

Some tomatoes

Some more tomatoes

On the far left, you can see the watermelons straying away and growing towards the "left"


Lettuce

Banana plant. We use the leaves as one time use plates, turns out everything tastes better on it.

more tomato

Full middle and left side is watermelons, (overgrown) and red banana on the far right, at the top, there is just the japanese variety of musa banana. At the very front, there is carrot. Just the flower, not the seed. (we mistakenly thought that a carrot could grow a carrot) But we later found out that the flowers form seeds, that we have to plant.

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I'm afraid I can't help you, I've never grown watermelons

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Thats a real nice garden

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the worst part is, is that cats s*** all over the garden and HIDE IT, we've invested over 100 bucks in scat mats and random ahh sound makers.

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Kit_Raccoon wrote:

Thats a real nice garden

thats what most people would say until you have frogs chilling at ground level.

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navinashok wrote:
Kit_Raccoon wrote:

Thats a real nice garden

thats what most people would say until you have frogs chilling at ground level.

Whats wrong with having frogs? I love listening to a chorus of frogs singing while I go to sleep.

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Good looking garden by the way. The only way I could grow anything where I am currently living is either in a pot or a raised bed. The ground isn't good for veggies.

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Sir_TrashPanda wrote:
navinashok wrote:
Kit_Raccoon wrote:

Thats a real nice garden

thats what most people would say until you have frogs chilling at ground level.

Whats wrong with having frogs? I love listening to a chorus of frogs singing while I go to sleep.

its very skeptical because I'm pretty much the one growing them, (my mom plants them and sits in a chair for 87 hours a day watching random lines of code. Point is, I dont want it to jump on my lettuce and gobble it or any of my plants, do they eat green onion?

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Sir_TrashPanda wrote:

Good looking garden by the way. The only way I could grow anything where I am currently living is either in a pot or a raised bed. The ground isn't good for veggies.

too much green, but i still need help on my melons. im going to costco in like 5 minutes im comming back in 3 hours.

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What type of watermelon?
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sugar baby i think or something like that

spit out varieties and i can tell u which one

the burpees seed packed is long gone lol

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also, not the male, the female. I've heard male watermelons arent sweet. (for those who don't know, male watermelons are the extra long ones surprise) tell me if im wrong because ive tasted a long one from foodmaxx and it tasted like god's watermelon.

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gorgeous garden, you can prune melon vines that are not bearing any blooms while the vines are dry, you can also clean up any 'extra' leaves but you don't want to take off too many. good luck on your melons

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2002superstar wrote:

gorgeous garden, you can prune melon vines that are not bearing any blooms while the vines are dry, you can also clean up any 'extra' leaves but you don't want to take off too many. good luck on your melons

ty, do you prune them with a garden snipper?

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navinashok wrote: 2002superstar wrote:

gorgeous garden, you can prune melon vines that are not bearing any blooms while the vines are dry, you can also clean up any 'extra' leaves but you don't want to take off too many. good luck on your melons

ty, do you prune them with a garden snipper?

no problem and yes, make sure it's sharp too so you minimize damage to the vine

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Watermelons are ground crawlers, so a trellis wouldn't work. It's unfortunately busy strangling carrot. (new forum idea) and it's a hassle doing that too. It's attempting to sabotage my curry leaves and now i keep bricking because of that. Is there a breed of melon that doesn't have this "strangle" hooks?

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2002superstar wrote:
navinashok wrote: 2002superstar wrote:

gorgeous garden, you can prune melon vines that are not bearing any blooms while the vines are dry, you can also clean up any 'extra' leaves but you don't want to take off too many. good luck on your melons

ty, do you prune them with a garden snipper?

no problem and yes, make sure it's sharp too so you minimize damage to the vine

thanks.

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navinashok wrote:

Watermelons are ground crawlers, so a trellis wouldn't work. It's unfortunately busy strangling carrot. (new forum idea) and it's a hassle doing that too. It's attempting to sabotage my curry leaves and now i keep bricking because of that. Is there a breed of melon that doesn't have this "strangle" hooks?

you should consider "companion planting" . because watermelon choke out weeds and other non compatible plants placing a plants that grows well with watermelon can act as a buffer between the melon and your other plants.

https://www.epicgardening.com/watermelon-companion-plants/

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thanks for the help!

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How much is a buck in pounds??