‘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!