{"id":741,"date":"2016-05-30T04:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardentowerchronicles.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2016-05-30T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:30:41","slug":"how-to-pick-a-sweet-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/how-to-pick-a-sweet-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"How to pick a sweet watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-745\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/food-fruit-baby-basket-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"food-fruit-baby-basket\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/food-fruit-baby-basket-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/food-fruit-baby-basket.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>At the grocery store, \u00a0I see people knock on watermelons trying to pick the best one. \u00a0 But how good is the sound test? \u00a0Some say a ripe watermelon will produce a hollow sound, while a \u201cthick\u201d or \u201csolid\u201d sound indicates a watermelon that\u2019s not ripe or too ripe. Others say a hollow or \u201ctight\u201d sound is bad, and your watermelon should instead sound \u201cfirm.\u201d Still others say a ripe watermelon should produce a B-flat sound. (What?!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the real deal on picking the sweetest Watermelon:<\/p>\n<p>1. Color: \u00a0it&#8217;s skin should be dark green. \u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Make sure it has a prominent creamy yellow spot also. \u00a0 This is where it sat on the ground ripening. No spot = premature pick = not ripe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> 2. Look for &#8220;webbing&#8221;. This is the brown, course web looking materiel. This is caused when bees pollinate the flower and scar the membranes that later forms the fruit. The more pollination = more webbing = sweeter fruit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">3. Look for black hard globs seeping out. This is sugar not insects or rotting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">4. \u00a0The weight: \u00a0the melon has high water content, therefore, it should be heavy relative to it&#8217;s size. \u00a0If it seems too light for its size, then it might not be juicy enough. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Follow the above rules, you are sure to get a sweet juicy one. \u00a0But if you still insist on getting its attention by knocking on it, \u00a0be sure you have a good ear and be a good listener.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-744\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/watermelon-whole-and-slices-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"watermelon-whole-and-slices\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/watermelon-whole-and-slices-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/watermelon-whole-and-slices.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the grocery store, \u00a0I see people knock on watermelons trying to pick the best one. \u00a0 But how good is the sound test? \u00a0Some say a ripe watermelon will produce a hollow sound, while a \u201cthick\u201d or \u201csolid\u201d sound indicates a watermelon that\u2019s not ripe or too ripe. Others say a hollow or \u201ctight\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-howtopickwatermelon","tag-sweetwatermelon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}