The Moon & Stars Watermelon is a legendary heirloom watermelon, that is thought to have originally been introduced in 1926 by Peter Henderson & Co. Seeds under the name of  Sun, Moon and Stars Watermelon. Until fairly recently, this wonderful watermelon variety was believed extinct until it was re-discovered in Macon, Missouri and later re-introduced to the public in 1987. 

The Moon and Stars Watermelon is a very unusual variety with a dark green rind that is speckled with bright yellow spots ranging from pin-hole sized to silver dollar sized, giving the impression of the night sky, the small specks resembling stars and the larger ones like moons, from which markings this variety takes its name. The leaves of the vine are a light green color and also speckled with yellow. The melons are oval in shape and can grow to be quite large, often reaching up to 40 pounds. Its flesh is pink to a brilliant red and is very sweet tasting. This is one of the sweetest heirloom watermelons you can raise in your home garden.

Moon and Stars is quickly becoming a very popular and much in demand watermelon variety. Read more >>>

Matures in 90 to 100 days.

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White Wonder is a beautiful and very rare watermelon variety with snow-white flesh that is so pale and transparent in color that it almost looks like ice!

The White Wonder Watermelon produces a good crop of small, 3 to 10 pound, round icebox type watermelons. In addition to the crisp white flesh, White Wonder also features a truly unique, sweet flavor that makes this variety absolutely perfect for gourmet fruit growers who have their sights set on the higher end of the market.

Though they are very rare today, white fleshed Watermelons were once very common back in the 1800's. Reputedly, the Henry Field Seed Co. continued to carry white fleshed watermelons into the early 1970's. Unfortunately, due to a more corporatized seed industry in recent years, these lovely, old fashioned white watermelon varieties are now rapidly dying out and are in serious danger of extinction.

This lovely white fleshed watermelon will be a big hit at any grower's market, picnic or family barbeque! Read more >>>

Matures in approximately 80 days. EXTREMELY RARE!

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Kolb's Gem Watermelon, which is also known under the names of Cobb's Gem, State Fair and American Champion Watermelon, is a 19th century exhibition quality watermelon that produces huge watermelons weighing beyond 100 pounds in weight. This wonderful giant watermelon was originally developed by Reuben F. Kolb of Alabama in the 1880's. Kolb's Gem was first introduced to the public at large by D.M. Ferry and Co. in 1885 and was also recorded by the Nebraska Seed Company of Omaha, Nebraska in their annual catalogue in 1898. Its first documented appearance under the name of "Cobb's Gem" ocurred after the turn of the century when it was exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missourri in 1904. Following this, the variety came to be the watermelon of choice for exhibition growers and also picked up the names "State Fair Watermelon" and "American Champion Watermelon".

Reuben Francis Kolb (1839-1918), the creator of this watermelon variety was an important historical figure in Alabama State History who lived in Montogomery, Alabama where he was a planter by trade. His family came from Germanic stock and came to settle in South Carolina in the 1760's. His great grandfather, Colonel Abel Kolb was an American Revolutionary War Hero who was killed on the night of April 27-28th, 1781 at his farm on the Pee Dee River in South Carlina. A memorial devoted to Abel Kolb can still be found at the intersection of US 15-401 and Road 167 at Pee Dee River, South Carloina. Reuben F. Kolb served as a Sargent in Company B of the 1st Alabama Confederate Regiment. for 12 months during the American Civil War (1861-1865). In 1862, he was promoted to the rank of Captain and organized and commanded an artillery company now known to history as "Kolb's Battery". In the 1880's, after the creation of his Kolb's Gem Watermelon, R.F. Kolb had gained sufficient fortune and fame that he was elected to the office of Commisioner of Agriculture in Alabama from 1887 to 1891. Kolb soon emerged as a powerful spokesman for farmer's interests in his state and ran for the office of Governor of Alabama in 1890, 1892 and 1894, subsequently losing all three electorial bids. In 1911, he was again elected to his old post of Commisioner of Agriculture, which he occupied until 1915. Through his lifetime, Kolb's influence on his state's agriculture was so great that in 1941, a paper entitled "Reuben Francis Kolb: His Influence on Agriculture in Alabama." was published by Auburn University. 

More information about Kolb, his family and Kolb's Battery is available on varying other websites for the inquisitive. More biographical information is available on the Alabama Department of History Archives Site at this link. A guide to a collection of Kolb family scrapbooks documenting his life are available at this direct link from the Auburn Special Collections Library. More information is available about Kolb's Battery at these direct links at RootsWeb, Eclectic Projects.  More information about Kolb's political career are available on these links at Southern Opinion, Alabama Moments, Constitutional Reform and here.

Kolb's Gem is a very productive Watermelon cultivar that prior to the development of the variety Carolina Cross, was the predominant watermelon variety grown for exhibition purposes in the United States. Watermelons of this variety weighing over 130 pounds have been recorded and the variety consistantly produces watermelons weighing in at over 100 pounds each. The watermelons themselves are very attractive and feature a dark green rind with beautiful pale green stripes.
The watermelons are nearly round in their shape and feature a sweet red flesh. Matures in approximately 100 days. Read more >>>

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Kleckley's Sweet Watermelon, also known as the Monte Cristo Watermelon was developed by W.A. Kleckley of Alabama in the 1880's. Reportedly, Kleckley developed this watermelon by cross breeding the varieties "Boss" and "Arkansas Traveler". This wonderful 19th century Watermelon variety was first introduced under the name of Kleckley's Sweet Watermelon by W. Atlee Burpee in 1897. Several years later, as was the marketing habit of early seed companies, the Robert Buist Seed Co. released this same variety under the name of Monte Cristo. 

This wonderful heirloom watermelon features a a crisp and extremely sweet red interior with a great degree of sweet juice that is intermingled with large white seeds. The melon itself features a dark green, oblong shaped rind and weighs from 25 to 40 pounds in weight at maturity. As the rind of this variety is thin, the variety never grew popular as a commercial shipping melon and does not store as long as other watermelons. Still, this variety has been popular and much esteemed by home gardeners for over a century due to its outstanding sweet taste! This lovely heirloom watermelon is perfect for the home gardener. Read more >>>

Kleckley's Sweet Watermelon is resistant to Fusarium Wilt and matures in approximately 85 days. 

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Mountain Hoosier is a very old heirloom watermelon that is said to date back to the era prior to the American Civil War. Though no records exist from that period that describe it under the name, we do know that Mountain Hoosier Watermelons were being offered commercially in seed catalogs about sixty years later during the 1930's. Whatever the case may be, we do know that Mountain Hoosier Watermelons have been in existance for at least 70 years and were once very popular with gardeners in the Mid-Eastern United States.

Mountain Hoosier is a very, very productive variety that produces very large watermelons. It is in fact, one of the most productive watermelons that we can recommend to our customers, with the added bonus that each watermelon will reach 75 to 80 pounds in weight when the weather conditions are favorable. This combination of great size and great production is very rarely, if ever, seen in other watermelon varieties, making Mountain Hoosier truly one of a kind! The large watermelons are of a slightly oblong shape and possess a dark green rind, making their appearance similar to Florida Giant. The flesh of the watermelons is of a brilliant red, with a very crisp, fine texture and a sweet, old fashioned taste. The seeds are large and are white in color with a black tip. Read more >>>

For production and reliability, we cannot reccommend a better watermelon that Mountain Hoosier.
 

Matures very early for a large variety, at 85 days, which places it among our earliest watermelons!

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