Used to be a guy with a trailer full of Texas watermelons and cantaloupes (pumpkins in season) who parked his rig at an abandoned gas station on Highway 82 -- the road from Alamogordo to Cloudcroft, NM, and for a few weeks each summer he had yellow-meated watermelons that were the best I ever ate. Hoping to find a local produce/fruit stand that sells them. I actually planted seed from one of those melons and got just one to ripeness, but oh, what a doozy that was!
Found this analysis of 28 varieties of yellow-meated melon and the Amarillo finishes at or near the top in most categories. Anyone else fond of the "yallers"?

https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/exte...n-Variety-Report.pdf

They are good melons.

Texas is a major grower as well. Good luck finding some!

Pardon the hijack, but if you have never had Watermelon Granita, you must try it.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/re...a-recipe-1957577.amp

The food processor doesn’t chop up the seeds, you can easily strain them out. This stuff is so good, oh my gosh.

Do any of you eat watermelon seeds?

We buy them roasted and salted.

Delicious.

My wife eats watermelon, pumpkin, squash, sunflower seeds and a varierty of others.
Me ?, not really. But I do have a great likinv fod those peanuts that are cooked ( boiled ? ) in their shells and taste salted. Mmmmmmm .... Damn hard to stop once you get started.

Saeed, that does sound good. Next seeded melon I buy I will save the seeds. Love the roasted pumpkin seeds.

Bill, check this out:

https://www.burpee.com/waterme...utm_id=6420874882608

I saw some yellow flesh watermelons in Mason TX a few weeks ago. I love a Mason County watermelon.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Do any of you eat watermelon seeds?

I don't seek them out, but I also don't bother removing them from the watermelon when eating it. I just swallow them down with the fruit.

Found one grown in South Carolina at the H-E-B in Abilene. It wasn't anything special. I'd love to a try another Texas yellow.
Ann, lots of seed to try once I move back to New Mexico.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Found one grown in South Carolina at the H-E-B in Abilene. It wasn't anything special. I'd love to a try another Texas yellow.
Ann, lots of seed to try once I move back to New Mexico.

You're moving again? Will you settle in the same place in NM or somewhere different?

I've been more disappointed in recent years with watermelons that I don't buy them anymore. They are also a bit more work than I want to bother growing them here. I do grow a lot of winter squash, same amount of work but I can store them much longer.

Wow, Bill! Are you moving again?

I remember quail hunting near a watermelon patch as a kid out of Big Spring, Texas. We busted one open on the tailgate after the morning hunt and it was amazing.

Ann, Randy, yes. House is pending. Moving back to New Mexico with her gorgeous mountains, vast public lands, clear trout streams and high-elevation winter snows. Target is Silver City on the Continental Divide with four real seasons -- and getting married again.

Good for you, Bill! I noticed that you listed everything in order of the proper perspective. , BTW, I answered your email on your chimney cap.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Ann, Randy, yes. House is pending. Moving back to New Mexico with her gorgeous mountains, vast public lands, clear trout streams and high-elevation winter snows. Target is Silver City on the Continental Divide with four real seasons -- and getting married again.

Congratulations on all, Bill!!!

Thanks friends.