I only have room for sugar babies. I grow them up a trellis in a small raised garden. They are tasty but they have a lot of seeds.

I did sugar babies last year, This year I'm going back to crimson sweet.

I'm trying petite yellow this year, did sugar baby ladt year

AU Producer....an improved Crimson Sweet.

you mean right now?

Always plant some Rattlesnake and am going to try Sorbet Swirl for the first time this year.

I plant about 50% Raspa and a couple Yellow Crimson, a couple Cooperstown, a couple Sweet Slice Plus, one Yellow Doll, one Big Stripe, one Sangria, and one Stripped Blue Ribbon Klondike.

I really like Orangeglo and Golden Midget. I have been letting the watermelon cross and selecting for small size, earliness and taste.
watermelon,
black seeded ice cream
watermelon,
BTM X Crim
watermelon,
crimson sweet
watermelon,
Crimsonx BTM
watermelon,
early Canada
watermelon,
golden midget
watermelon,
moon &stars
watermelon,
moon&stars yellow
watermelon,
quetzali
watermelon,
sugar baby
watermelon,
sweet dakota rose

watermelon,
yellow mix

I grow Big Stripe, Greystone, Orangeglo, and Gold Strike, a total of about 70 plants. But since you're only growing on a trellis, you should stay with Sugar Baby or Blacktail Mountain.

This season will be my first growing watermelon. I've heard from other gardeners in the area that it can be a time squeeze getting anything to ripen before the first frost. I'm going to try sugar baby for it's shorter DTM and also because the plant will have to share space in my 4'x8' raised beds and being able to trellis will probably make that a bit easier.

So excited to find some new watermelon to try.

I just planted Ledmon and blacktail. So that makes Four different watermelon. Already planted petite yellow and sugar baby. If I run across some Mickey lee ill add that. Next year I may try orangegelo because everyone seems to grow that. Also ran across Congo; it looked like an old fashioned Texas watermelon - anybody ever had one?

I have raised Congo....not a best performer for me. They were very very crisp...a bit hard for some.

Congo is a 1949 release from USDA Charleton SC. Very popular market melon in the fifties. Good flavor but not comparable to Crimson Sweet. Never had any problem with white heart or hard flesh. Good producer, but tends to get watery when overripe. Very poor holding quality.

Thanks for the info, I'm trying to find the easiest, sweetest, most productive watermelon I can grow.

think I'll pass on Congo.

Crimson Sweet, Orangeglo, Blacktail and Sangria this year.

Orange Tendersweet, Crimson Sweet and I'm going to try a Carolina Cross.

My very best melons are Raspa. Really good ones weigh from 32-38 pounds and tend to set 2 fruits. I love Sangria, but find it setting 5 or 6 melons that do not reach full size and flavor. Cooperstown and Sweet Slice Plus have made excellent seedless, but are more chancy.

Raspa is my favorite too Wayne, thx for suggesting that one. Unfortunately they get to be So Huge that my old henia is looking for a baby brother ;o).

I believe that Orange Glo was one you recommended too a long while back? I like it as well but learned that leaving them to ripen a week longer than usual makes them exceptional. Still searching for a Med size, sweet, low seed melon but will raise some Crimsom Sweets.

I find that Orangeglo varies a lot. Most are large. Some are good and then some are coarse and grainy.

Sugar baby. I never grew watermelons before but last year's success with muskmelon has me feeling brave.

OOPS!!!

My bad Wayne. Not OragneGLo, I tried it a while back but got the same results you stated. I meant to type "Gold Strike", an orange watermelon that beats all I've tried so far and I think it was one you suggested a few years ago? At any rate I like it and Raspa as my 2 top sweetest melons though they both push my henia to the limit :)

vgkg, I have had varying results with Gold Strike too. Some are superb and some have lacked that extra flavor. Yellow Crimson is good....let melons mature.

I guess I just don't understand starting with Sugar Baby. I would think that it would be more of a fair melon than great. Melons are very disease prone and I would want my first endeavor to be of the very finest varieties...before I might get disease in the soil...been there much.

Orangeglo, Gold Strike, Summer Gold, Yellow Crunch, Lemon Krush, Orange Krush, Clay County Yellow Meat, Crimson Yellow, Sangria, Klondike Striped Blue Ribbon, and Mountain Sweet Yellow.

I know this is old, but, I'm growing at least these (at least some of them are crosses):

Carolina Cross #183

King Winter

Navajo Winter

Navajo Red

Santo Domingo Brown Seeded

Santo Domingo Dark Green

Santo Domingo Winter

Weeks NC Giant

Winter Queen

Wintermelon