water melon

I'd be quite interested in this knowing if anyone had any experience of this too? Is it different to growing regular melons?

I'm think that kristen tried to grow some watermelons last year, have to wait for his comments 

Well emotion-2003, I guess that means it'll be a strange adventure into the unknown! We could be pioneers on this forum!!!      

I have some watermelon seeds called Black Diamond. I'm not sure if i'll be giving them a go this year or next, but this is some info i found on them:

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5433902_grow-watermelon-seeds.html

Seems a bit like growing pumpkins really, rather than the training method used for regular melons.

Having a little hunt around, there seems to be mixed consensus on how much to water them. With some people having little luck when they watered little.
I always go by the theory that watery, juicy veg (like cukes, pumpkin etc) need a lot of water ,so i would ignore the eHow article about "Do not water the watermelon plants unless drought conditions exist."
My gut feeling tells me thats wrong. I don't 1000% trust eHow articles as they seem to be written by anyone... but they're a good starting point.

I also would think that they would do better in a polytunnel, as they are a heat loving plant and my guess is that growing them outdoors in the uk would mean trouble getting them ripe before frosts, so cover would be helpful.

Where are you based? If you fill in your location on your profile, it will mean any advice you get would take your climate into account too?

I grew some in my cold frame last year, they got to about 5" but were ripe, no different to growing other Melons.

So did you tie them up, and support the watermelons in 'slings' as you would do with regular melons?
*confused how you'd do that under a cold frame*

Mine trailed along the ground.  Water melon get pretty big, so I suspect that ground-crawling is preferable to slings. Mine crawled a long way - but I didn't stop them, as I would have done for normal Melons - no idea what the correct method is, none of my trusted gardening books appear to have ever heard of Water melon!

thank you so much for your usefull comments.but %100 i ll try to growe my water melon this year and i ll share the pictures.wish me luck