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After decades of growing food at home, there is still a popular plant Josh has never tried - Watermelon. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe That’s partly because space is at a premium and watermelon plants can get quite large, so he’s decided to plant some smaller, heirloom varieties: ‘Sugar Baby’ and ‘Golden Midget’. The fruit of these only gets to about 3kg, so they can be grown up, not out. Watermelons prefer well-drained soils but also are quite hungry and thirsty, so Josh works in some compost and blood and bone fertiliser to his plot, which is already set up with drip irrigation. If you’re gardening on heavy clay soils, build up mounds with lots of compost and plant into those. He mulches over the driplines then sets up a four steel mesh panels to form two frame for the vines to scramble up. Josh places a reo mesh panel on either side of the bed, leans them together to form an ‘A’ frame, and ties them together at the top with wire. Secure the bases with steel pins or stakes. Growing the plants up a frame will also increase the airflow and reduce the risk of fungal disease. As the fruit grow, they can be supported with old stockings tied to the frame, to stop the stems snapping under their own weight. The soil temperature needs to be above 20C for the seeds to germinate, so in cooler climates it’s worth starting them off in containers indoors to get a jump-start on the season. Plants need to be about 1m apart, so Josh plants three seeds at the base of each panel and he’ll thin out to the strongest plant once they’ve germinated. Josh waters in the seeds but, once plants are germinated and growing, it’s best to use the drip irrigation so reduce the risk of fungal disease on the leaves. A liquid feed every two or three weeks will keep them pumping. The small heirloom varieties are also faster to ripen, being ready to harvest in anything from 10 to 14 weeks. Featured plants: Watermelon ‘Golden Midget’ (Citrullus lanatus cv.) Watermelon ‘Sugar Baby’ (Citrullus lanatus cv.) Filmed on Whadjuk Country in Perth, WA ___________________________________________ Gardening Australia is an ABC TV program providing gardening know-how and inspiration. Presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program, the magazine, books, DVDs and extensive online content. Watch more: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/gard... Facebook:   / gardeningaustralia   Instagram:   / gardeningaustralia   Web: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening ___________________________________________ This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3).