Others knock on watermelons to check for a deep and hollow sound, which can mean the melon is ripe and sweet, or look for ...

How to cut a watermelon three different ways: in slices, cubes, or sticks. Plus, ... Most people toss the rind in the trash or compost because it's seen as inedible.

• The best way to store a whole watermelon is at room temperature out of the sun. • Whole watermelon stored this way keeps ...

Also, be sure to thoroughly wash the outside of the watermelon before slicing into it. If you end up with a foaming melon, carefully remove it from your house and discard or compost it.

For 18 years, Paul Campbell has been lugging 300-pound bins filled with watermelon rinds, coconut shells and other compost onto a truck in the dead of the night.

“Use watermelon peels to make organic liquid fertilizer.” No magic required: Add watermelon rinds to your compost. Or invert melon rinds and place in your garden as traps for snails and slugs.