Price of Watermelon...in the DR

I have never purchased a watermelon here that was worth even 1 peso.
Maybe I've been unlucky but they are never sweet.

We used to have the same problem..........

........sometimes we even got ones that were WHITE inside with no sign of RED!.......

.....until someone on the road to Santiago told us the trick.........and since then, we have been loving the watermelon..........as close as we can get to the ones in the US..........even though they still have seeds........

NEVER get the good looking watermelon.........You want to get the one with the biggest WHITE/BROWN spot on it that you can.............

........that means the watermelon has stayed in the ground long enough to rippen and the biggest problem with the watermelons here is that they pick them too fast.........

..........since we have been doing that, we haven't had a "bad" one yet.....

We pay between $100RD and $150RD for them ...........and they are quite big..........at any of the road stands in the Naverette area........or around the rotary in Santiago.........

you could give yourself a hernia buying fruit here - everything is so big

in POP it depends on size, from about 60 pesos up. can be 150 pesos if the melon is really huge.
i normally buy ours in jose luis, they are cut so i can see if inside is nice and juicy. and anyways i am the only one eating them so i get a half or 1/4.
amazingly i have not been able to grow them buggers in our garden, i regularly plant the seeds, get the plant crawling about and then it dries and dries. wtf?

prefer the round football type