Castroville, Texas had a dry summer, but Dealer Troy Klump grew the giant melons on this page using AGGRAND Natural Liquid Fertilizers. "It was an awesome challenge to get them to grow with very little water," Klump said. "It was more expensive to water than it was to buy the AGGRAND fertilizers."

Klump grew the melons in a 20-foot by 20-foot garden. He watered the ground, then tilled it. He applied a mixture of one gallon of AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer, 4-3-3, one quart of AGGRAND Natural Kelp and Sulfate of Potash, 0-0-8, and one quart of AGGRAND Natural Liquid Bonemeal, 0-12-0, to 25 gallons of water.

'I tilled it in about fi ve inches and planted the seeds fie feet apart," Klump said. During the blooming period, Klump foliar fed an added mixture of one gallon of AGGRAND 4-3-3 and one quart of AGGRAND 0-0-8 in 25 gallons of water to the plants.

It took 124 days for the melons to mature. "I didn’t think any of them were going to get ripe," Klump said. "They were green forever. But, fi nally I got 36 cantaloupes, and only one of them wasn’t sweet. The watermelons were the sweetest, sweet as sugar."

The cantaloupes averaged about 28 to 30 pounds. "One of the watermelons was 50 pounds, but the average was 35 to 40 pounds," Klump said. "I could barely fit it into the refrigerator."