Saving The Sweetest Watermelon The South Has Ever Known

NPR ^ | 19 May 2015 | Jill Neimark

[SuzyQue]

I’ll have to try it again. I couldn’t get on to the site last week.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Darnit! They’re out of seeds.

[Rebelbase]

Nice! Bookmarked the website to order seeds next fall.

[Yardstick]

Not mentioned in the NPR piece but the Bradford family seem to be believing Christians. From the site:

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Our mission: To drill fresh water wells all over the world and provide medication to treat waterborne illnesses. My family and I prayed for guidance on how to use this family treasure in an amazing way that would bring God glory and have great impact in the world. One Sunday morning in church our pastor was sharing about a mission to drill fresh water wells in Africa. He shared a statistic that floored me. Every day around the world over 3000 people die of illnesses from poor drinking water, many of them are small children. That’s one person every 30 seconds. Most can be cured with a 30 cent pill. I imagined one of those grieving mothers losing her precious child. I imagined how painful it would be to lose one of my children that way. Unbearable. Unconscionable. That instant Watermelons for Water was conceived.

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[Ditter]

My mothers older brothers called watermelons Augedy melons, it was a family thing I guess.

[madison10]

Darn it, now I want watermelon. When I purchase one in summer I eat that the whole thing myself over several days. Best food to cool off with.

[SunkenCiv]

BTW, a big thank you, I'd never heard of the Bradford; the one I've been assiduously seeking for around ten years now is the Cob melon -- back when Leddon & Sons had a retail catalog, they used to carry the seeds (late 1980s). Never seen them since.

[bert]

please remove my name from this FReep list

bert

[metmom]

Why are you pinging me?

I don’t have you on any ping lists of mine.

I don’t recall the last time I pinged you for anything.

[MHGinTN]

YOU have good taste! As a kid in East Tennessee, we would eat watermelon under the Locust trees in Pawpaw’s yard, getting liquid all over our bare legs. Paw would tell us we were about ready for a dog bath ... in his childhood the dogs were allowed to lick the sticky juice from the kids.

[metmom]

Gardening ping

[JoeProBono]

[SunkenCiv]

My personal favorites, homegrown here, are black diamond, and the yellow-fleshed black diamond; I’ve always found the yellow-flesh watermelons to be much better tasting in general.

[SunkenCiv]

From GGG?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Good old days. Life has changed so much.

[MHGinTN]

Oh you may not realize just how right you are! Most old men can tell you ...

[gleeaikin]

I don’t know if I saw it at FR or in an archaeology journal, but some 2,000 year old date seeds from the Israel area have been sprouted. Apparently this date was so delicious it was a major economic product of the Jewish areas, so the Roman’s systematically set about to destroy all traces of the plant. I so hope they will succeed in revitalizing the line.

[bert]

no, not from GGG

I got the wrong thread.

I do not want to receive the posts from the religion thread list

[SunkenCiv]

• Tree Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Has Reproduced
• Tree From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Doing Well (Methuselah)
• 2,000-Year-Old Judean Date Seed Growing Successfully
• 2,000-Year-Old Judean Date Seed Growing Successfully
• 2,000-Year-Old Seed Sprouts, Sapling Is Thriving
• BBC: Date palm buds after 2,000 years
• After a 2,000-Year Rest, a Seed Sprouts in Jerusalem

[SunkenCiv]

No problem. I get mixed up when I have too many tabs open, myself. :’(