I watered my melons every evening right up to picking just to swell them: the morning after the July storm, what had split open on the vine wasn’t only one fruit
That evening watering ritual feels like care, but it’s setting up your melons to burst. After a July storm, one fruit split open—then several more. The real culprit isn’t the weather; it’s weeks of irregular water supply that weakened the rind and concentrated pressure inside the fruit.