For the past seven years, University of California Cooperative Extension vegetable farm adviser Zheng Wang has studied ...

I recently learned about a watermelon the size of an egg that was hybridized in Virginia. The hybridizer is Delaney Raptis, a teenager who created this botanical oddity in her suburban backyard.

Watermelon is a summer staple, but choosing a perfectly ripe one takes skill. A grower explains the easiest way to pick the perfect watermelon.