Watermelon, Anguria Janosik

Watermelon, Anguria Janosik  is an early variety watermelon producing a thin green skin and yellow, sweet, tender fleshy melon.  80 days. Yellow-fleshed Polish variety. Oblong fruit to about 10 lbs. The extra sweet, yellow flesh is lovely in contrast with the dark green rinds. Crisp and delicious! Beautiful, uniform fruit and one of the best eating bright yellow types!

 

Janosik comes to us from Poland by way of Italy and is a huge success.   The fruits, with dark green rinds, bright yellow flesh, and wonderfully sweet refreshing flavor averaging probably around 10-12# with some tipping the scales at up to 16#, and plants yielding between 30-40# of fruit each! Texture is VERY important and Janosik delivers just the perfect combination of crisp and grainy (never smooth or mealy!) flesh.

The name JANOSIK refers to a real-life Slovak highwayman from the late 1600s who became a semi-legendary Robinhood-like hero of Slovak, Polish, and Hungarian folklore robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. His name has become a symbol of resistance to oppression in central Europe and was used by an anti-Nazi resistance group in the Slovak National Uprising. Just goes to show, there are all sorts of things you can learn from a seed, and that’s a name we can get behind.