I live in zone 6a. My heat-loving plants usually stop producing much by mid-September. The week of Memorial day I transplanted my indoor starts (all about the size of your standard nursery quart-size veggie starts) into the ground. It has been about a month and I'm concerned about my watermelons. They're only this big! By comparison, my pickling cucumbers started indoors and then transplanted at the same times as these, respectively, are in the second picture (spoon for scale) and have been flowering for over a week. The watermelons are full-size (Charleston Grey) and I assume they'll take a long time to develop and ripen. Am I being impatient or are these looking like a failure this year? My 9-year-old has been begging for a watermelon patch, but if these aren't likely to produce, I'd just as soon pull them and plant a short-season crop in their place. Thoughts? Should I give them another week or 2?
