Last summer the heat wave hit in May before the plants could get established. This year the cool weather is holding things up. That’s why I started the stuff indoors this year, hoping that by the time to transplant, they will be at a decent size, and the weather will not be too cool.
Also, I have through experiments settled on the Sugar Baby Watermelon as my main watermelon due to rather short days to maturity of 75 days. Plus it doesn’t take up too much room in the Refrigerator, and we usually don’t have leftovers after cutting into it. Great flavor is of course the first requirement.
The Minnesota Midget is a 60 day to maturity canteloupe that has done well for me. The vine peach grows like crazy, but it is rather bland to eat as is. Better when worked into a pie or something. Both are just right for an individual serving. A larger canteloupe that I like is Iroquois.
Of course these are all heirloom/open pollinated.
Sugar Babies are very popular everywhere, I think. Down south where we are from, watermelons come in all summer long, with July 4th being the high point of the season.
We just got back from Lowes where we picked up some Black Diamond melon seedlings along with a couple of canalopes. So we shall see what happens.