Vegetable Description: One of the most popular melons out there! Crimson Sweet has a tough, medium green rind with dark-green stripes. Fruit are nearly round with an average weight of 24 lbs. Flesh is firm, fine textured, and bright red with high sugar content and relatively few small dark brown mottled seeds. Resistant to FW1, FW2, AN1 & AN3. Matures in 80 to 95 days. Average water needs. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies, and/or birds.

Vegetable Botanical Name: Citrullus lanatus

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Vegetable Duration: Annual

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 85

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 580

Vegetable Height: 6” to 12”

Vegetable Spacing: 5' to 6'

Vegetable Planting: Direct sow outside after danger of last frost. Plant in hills of 2-3 plants per hill at 60”-72” apart, and 1“ below soil surface.

Vegetable Seed Saving: Plant either does not set seed because flowers are sterile, or plants will not come true from seed.

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