My father grew the striped Rattlesnake watermelons in the late 30s and 40s in FResno County Ca and they were good. We had so many that we could pick one, drop it and eat the heart out in the garden. He also grew one that I think was a Crimson Giant? Mother canned Watermelon rind near the end of the season. We are still getting seed catalogs and must have 23 or 24 now but Not all of them get used...
We are having some great Indian summer weather here. A bunch of seed catalogs came in, but Hubby is hoarding them, and I haven’t been able to look at any of them.