farmer dill - very useful info - i found the link with the entire study for
all those interested:

http://www.seedquest.com/News/releas...ember/7170.htm


"FarmerDill" wrote in message
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has anyone had any luck growing this variety? i have attempted to grow it
beside many other varieties and every year it succumbs to disease or just
never really gets going. is this just a really weak variety?

if anyone has successfully grown these, how does their
taste/texture/overall
quality compare to other homegrown melons?

I have not grown New Queen. In Washington States trials in 2003 it was the
lowest yeilding ice box type. It is relatively new so disease resistance
should
not be a major problem. If you can successfully grow other cultivars like
Yellow Doll or Orchid Sweet, that I would go with the succesful cultivars

TABLE 2
Total number of fruit harvested, total weight of fruit harvested, and
average
weight, length and width per fruit of 9 mini watermelon varieties.

Variety
Total No. Fruit Hrv.
Total Wt. (kg/lbs)


Garden Baby
12
28.50/62.99

New Queen
10
24.66/54.50


Orchid Sweet
12
43.70/96.58

Smile
18
41.34/91.36


Sugar Baby
12
33.53/74.10


Yellow Doll
16
26.30/58.12


Red Delicious
16
29.18/64.49


Dark Belle
21
46.22/102.15


Fun Belle
16
24.74/54.68