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Watermelon memories and tips from a Hill Country reader
A Hill Country reader shares summer watermelon lore from Mason to the Rio Grande Valley. He recalls roadside vendors, Moonlighting about authentic Mason melons, and tips for picking ripe fruit such as color, spots, hollow sound, and fingernail scratch tests. He notes seedless varieties from Rio Grande Valley and the perils of overripe or falsely labeled melons and reflects on past local lore and personal favorites.
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Blue Bell
Sun
Jim Kyle
Stolander Road
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Labor Day
Hempstead
Luling
Mason
Fredericksburg
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
Central
Stonewall
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