‘Blacktail Mountain’ Watermelon
If you've had no luck with watermelons in the past, here's your chance to try again with a better strain. This variety is very tolerant of cool weather conditions, and the best choice we have found for a UK crop.
'Blacktail Mountain' was developed by plant breeder Glenn Drowns of Iowa when he was a teenager in 1977, and time after time it beats all the other early watermelons in trials - it is widely acknowledged as one of the earliest varieties available.
It has nice sweet red flesh, and is one of the the few we have found to grow well in the UK.
Sweet and tasty red fleshed fruit - look at that , watermelon grown in Wales! Yay!
10 seed £2.69
‘Early Moonbeam’ YELLOW Watermelon - LIMITED GUEST VARIETY FOR TRIAL
Claimed to be earliest yellow-fleshed watermelon there is! A new variety bred in Germany to tolerate cooler conditions, and it can get very sweet in a warm summer.
Join in with our research! Guest varieties are promising new ones we have found, but haven't tested fully yet. We're got a limited number of packets for a crowd-sourced trial, so let us know what you think of them! We'll use all your feedback to decide to keep offering them or not.
10 seed, organic. £2.89
‘Sugar Baby’ Watermelon
A new and very early watermelon with sweet red flesh that was bred for smaller fruit, to allow a harvest in shorter summers.
The skin gets quite dark as its ripens, helping absorb more heat from the sun.
14 seed £2.64
‘Sweet Siberian’ ORANGE Watermelon - LIMITED GUEST VARIETY FOR TRIAL
This was first sold by Peter Henderson & Co in 1898 from seeds obtained from Russia. The large green oblong fruits weigh 6-8 pounds, with apricot-colored flesh.
Join in with our research! Guest varieties are promising new ones we have found, but haven't tested fully yet. We're got a limited number of packets for a crowd-sourced trial, so let us know what you think of them! We'll use all your feedback to decide to keep offering them or not.
10 seed £2.49
‘Thora’ EXTRA EARLY Watermelon - LIMITED GUEST VARIETY FOR TRIAL
We're determined to find the earliest watermelons there are. This new one was bred from Siberian heirlooms, in a good summer it can set fruit even earlier than Blacktail Mountain. Chosen for its sweetness as well as earliness.
Join in with our research! Guest varieties are promising new ones we have found, but haven't tested fully yet. We're got a limited number of packets for a crowd-sourced trial, so let us know what you think of them! We'll use all your feedback to decide to keep offering them or not.
10 seed, organic. £2.89
‘Siberian Lights’ Watermelon
We're pleased to offer this early dark green watermelon with very sweet red flesh from our trial last year. Ben got the seed from Andrei Baranovski in the Ukraine , and it is adapted to northern lattitudes, doing well in our polytunnel here in Wales. Just a few packets from our trial plants for now.
The fruit are particularly pretty with paler green stripes and good sweet flavour.
10 seed, organic. £2.89