Fantasy- Watermelon

Description

(85 days) F-1 hybrid. Northern growers have probably noticed our italicized cautions saying “maybe not really for you” on whopper striped oblong watermelon varieties. In our own gardens, we never skimp on the tricks of planting good seedlings into black plastic under row cover, yet getting yields of 1 or 2 fully ripe biggies per plant amounts to a good year. Big news: if our 2018 Zone 4 watermelon trials have any merit, now is your chance to live the watermelon dream. With extra-sweet deep red flesh and raging watermelon flavor, Fantasy made four times the fruit of production-standard Sangria, and was earlier. In hot dry 2018, the 7×15″ fruits weighed 15 lbs; a little more rain and we could’ve pushed 20+ lbs easy. Its vigor and yields prove it was bred for organic growing conditions. But here’s the italic warning: Northern growers could get used to this new watermelon reality