This early standard icebox watermelon, Sugar Baby, is popular throughout the world. This heirloom open-pollinated watermelon produces round fruit that is 8" in across and weighing 8 pounds. The dark green rinds are tough, and the red flesh is great tasting with small black seeds. The vines are determinate, and the melons are ripe in just 75 days.
Sugar Baby, a 1959 heirloom, packs a lot of flavor in a small melon; this variety of watermelon seeds for planting grows very well in the North, since it is one of the earliest melons available.