How to pick a Watermelon: Everyday I see people banging on watermelons trying to pick the best one. Here’s the real deal on picking the sweetest Watermelon: 1. Make sure it has a prominent yellow spot. This is where it sat on the ground ripening. No spot = premature pick = not ripe. 2. Look for “webbing”. 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. 3. Look for black hard globs seeping out. This is sugar not insects or rotting.
Also check the stem – if it is indented it was picked when it was ready, if it is not indented it was picked too early.

I hope to have some photos up soon.  We have had some major plumbing issues going on the last 2 weeks and all other projects took a back seat. These are the issues that you deal with when you buy a fixer upper and it has sat for 4 years and the previous owner had passed away.

I did get a few things hung.  Hopefully more photos and projects will be coming soon.