thunderstick 70 wrote:
Back in the sixties if my mom couldn't raise water melons in the garden we would go down to the mini-nite colony on the Missouri river
after the first good frost and for 5.00$ we could put as may melons on the floor of dads 6 foot by 8 foot truck bed. We couldn't stack them but put them as close together as we could........then we take them home and cover them with oats in an oats bin.......they would last clear in to December..... Good times......good days.....later.
Back in the late 50s we raised winter watermelons kept them in the oats bin lasted a long time