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Guard, has been around Bogue This year, Mr. Winberry said, 7|20|17 - 7|26|17 Sound Watermelons all his life. was a great year, with weather In fact, for many years now, that was hot enough, and with he’s been around them almost just enough rain. every day of his life, from March “They are above average this through late September or early year, I’d say,” the farmer said. October. And an average Bogue Sound He has 12 acres of the delec- Watermelon is, well, you know, table melons on his Winberry way above the average melon, Farms spread in Cedar Point. even if it’s below average for a There are 1,000 plants per acre, Bogue Sound melon. and each plant yields an average It’s not at all unusual for vaca- of 1.5 melons. tioners to take eight, 10, even That’s 18,000 of the sweet- 12 Bogue Sound Watermelons est, juiciest melons known to home, filling every nook and man, a fruit so prized that Mr. cranny that’s not crammed with Winberry remembers trac- luggage and human bodies, Mr. tor-trailer after tractor-trailer Winberry said. Many of those hauling them north from Cedar tourists, he and wife, Sarah, said, Point to Philadelphia and New say they’ve promised them to York City, where, he says, Bogue friends back home. Sound melons were famous, and “We have a good steady cus- still might be. tomer base of locals, but the Winberry Farms in Cedar Point grows fresh Bogue Sound Watermelons and sells them at their “I’ve also been told that, tourists are where we make the barn on Cedar Point Boulevard. (Dylan Ray photo) before my time, they used to money now,” Mr. Winberry said. Years ago, folks would pull barge them to New York,” Mr. Winberry plants in four stages, as July 10. It depends on the memory – for Bogue Sound up to the farm in pickup trucks, Winberry said in a recent inter- so he has the prized fruit from Watermelons to grow success- buy a load and then re-sell them weather. If you have some cold view at Winberry Farms’ retail July through early October. along the roadsides, with a weather, it takes a little longer.” fully. outlet at 1006 Cedar Point Blvd. decent markup. “We start the seeds in the “They have very deep tap What makes the Bogue Sound It simply can’t be too hot That doesn’t happen much greenhouse, starting around melon such a prized fruit? – at least in Mr. Winberry’s long See Melons / Page 12 anymore, ‘cause those guys March 10,” he said. The goal is That would be the soil. It’s have mostly passed away, but to have the first crop available sandy along Bogue Sound, and it Mr. Winberry said he does sell for the melon-heads by July 4, drains well, and apparently, that excess melons to area stores, the peak of tourist season. soil has all the other right things, and to the big farmers’ market “We made it this year, but in the right balance, to make in Raleigh. just barely,” he said. “I think it watermelons like none other. 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We site reaction and the beauti- more complicated situation Apes” should be a satisfac- Planet of the Apes films need- enter the world through the ful and harrowing and near- than they could have ever tory conclusion for the series, ed to do to really hit a home eyes of some terrified intrud- ly silent nighttime raid that expected. but that’s naively assuming run was take the humans out ers. A group of human sol- comes soon leaves the apes To say too much more about franchises are even allowed of the equation. It’s what this diers walk through the woods no choice but to abandon the plot would probably be a to have intentional endings.