Amy Lynn Andrews is a blogging guru that Aunty follows. Sometimes she has excellent non-blogging tips.
Recently, she shared Shareably.net’s article about picking the perfect watermelon. This was great for Aunty who usually doesn’t buy watermelons because of the risk of getting a lemon – a non sweet or juicy bulky green globe that nobody wants or eats.
The 5 key factors to picking, according to Shareably, are:
- a yellow rather than a white field spot (where the watermelon lay on the ground). Field spot? Aunty never heard or looked for that.
- lots of webbing – the ugly looking brown lines that indicate how many times a bee pollinates the flower. Ugly lines are good? Aunty used to think they were junk.
- boy melons are longer and watery, girl melons are rounder and sweeter. Ahem, well, we all knew that, right?
- not too big, and not too small, but juuuussst right. Sounds like Aunty Marialani from Rap Replinger’s video.
- brown tail means it was on the vine longer, thus riper. Green tail means it was picked too early. Aunty has never seen a tail on a watermelon – but now shall check them out.
MAYBE Aunty will buy a watermelon again. Or did she miss the season already?
Nice tips. I will keep them in mind when we are shopping for a watermelon. But, we do tend to buy the ones that are round instead of long.
Thanks!! Will pass on to Wendell who’s been into buying watermelons lately.
Aunty,
The season’s still alive ‘n well with quality watermelon that so far we’ve been lucky in a hit or miss way, but now that you’ve pointed out particular features like coloring/spot, webbing/lines, shape, size, tail, we will consider carefully before making purchases. Just took notes, will never make a bad choice ever, thanks to you!
Happy Summer,
Tutu