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'Summer Gold' Melons

Sub-Category:	Watermelon

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Yellow-fleshed hybrid watermelon. Early, vigorous plants bear oblong, black-seeded fruit with yellow-gold flesh and dark-green/light-mottled-green stripes.
Days To Maturity:	80-85
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Overall: (4.0 Stars) Taste: (4.0 Stars) Yield: (5.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (5.0 Stars)

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Reviewed on 07/17/2007 by farmerdill - An experienced gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Richmond, Georgia, United States Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days Soil Texture: Sand Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This is a hybrid that looks and tastes like the OP Tendergold. It is a bit more uniform in size and shape, but insufficiently so to justify the extra seed cost. It will not replace Tendergold in this slot for me.

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