No more bland watermelons! Here’s a sure-fire visual guide to finding the sweetest fruit at the market.

The first cut can break your heart. You carry that heavy watermelon home, dreaming of ruby-red sweetness… only to expose pale, watery disappointment. At 73, living alone in my farmhouse, I refused to let summer feel like a gamble. So I stopped guessing. I stopped thumping. I started reading the silent clues the field leaves behind—yellowed bellies,continue reading …