The best melon I've ever grown continues to be "Gold Strike", an orange variety, crisp, sweet, and everyone I've served it up too agrees. Not sure what "picnic size" is, small? but GS is a large melon.

concur. not sure what picnic size means. for small melons (15 lb)

Mickylee

Wilson Sweet

in 20-25 lb class

Chris Cross

Crimson Sweet

Golden Honey

I have grown a few varieties of watermelons both OP and hybrids. all are rated in Plants Database. I have grown Gold strike, very good but I like Golden Honey and if want large 30 lb.+ melons Orange Flesh Tendersweet, Orangeglo,. Desert King.

Picnic sized usually refers to the size of large store ones over 15lbs or so. The catalogues and universities also classify sizes as Icebox and personal sized, and are the approximate size as the category suggests.

You may get more responses in the vegetable section. Watermelon is a fruiting vegetable like eggplant, tomato, pepper, squash. cucumber...

Orangeglo is a very good one highly recommend

Orangeglo is hands down my favorite. I've also grown Cream of Saskatchewan, Crimson Sweet, Mountain Sweet Yellow, Moon and Stars, Blacktail Mountain, Jubilee, and probably half a dozen others I can't recall. None of those, or anything from the store comes close to Orangeglo for taste, but it is prone to splitting, and Crimson Sweet has always been the most reliable producer for me.

How do you like Cream of Saskatchewan? I got some seeds this year to try it out.

melikeeatplants, C of S was nothing special for me, lacking in sweetness and flavor, but I imagine it could be good in certain climates. I'm in a relatively short growing season area with cool summer nights, but that variety seemed to grow fine for me at least.

It is a Novelty for me. Texture is good, excellent sweetness, very light taste. Still the best white fleshed variety that I have grown.

it has a strangely salty taste, like Gatorade without flavor