According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, water makes up 92 percent of a watermelon’s content. One of the most nourishing foods available, watermelon hydrates on a cellular level—meaning the ...

Florida produces more watermelon than any other state, accounting for 34% of the nation's supply. Indian River County, once a citrus hub, now sees numerous repurposed school buses transporting ...

Watermelons can offer a nice explosion of flavor in your mouth, but they shouldn’t be spontaneously combusting. Oddly enough, that’s exactly what some fans of the popular fruit are worried about ...

Watermelons are generally pretty tough crops, but once in a while they develop problems that seem insurmountable. Treating watermelon problems is often a simple matter, but the first thing you’ve got ...

Nothing hits the spot on a summer day like a sweet slice of watermelon. This year’s harvest has been good in Indiana, but June and July’s hot and wet weather has created some challenges to getting ...

Our strawberries got a kind of a mold on them this year. We have never had that problem before. Help! Grey mold is a fungus (Botrytis cinerea). Berries are attacked at all stages of development and ...

New genetic research finds that the Kordofan melon (pictured), native to Sudan, is the watermelon's closest wild relative. Shan Wu The green-striped, red-fleshed watermelon might not look inherently ...