Video: North Mississippi Watermelon Crop Running a Little Behind

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) – With July Fourth right around the corner, many people will be looking for watermelons for family cookouts and get togethers.

Northeast Mississippi watermelon growers have had a tough time getting their crops to consumers. There are watermelons in stores, but if they’re Mississippi grown they’re likely from the Gulf Coast region.

Farmers say the unusually wet spring has made it difficult to harvest watermelons throughout North Mississippi.

“It was so wet and everything earlier , just couldn’t get in the field to plant, can’t break it up. The bottom is where watermelons do best, instead of hill ground, they grow better in sandy ground, and it is just too wet to get in.”

Mississippi has about 3,000 acres of commercial watermelons.