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The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is teaching three watermelon/cucurbit meetings in East Alabama. Cucurbit crops are the vining plants in the garden, including cucumber, squash, zucchini, pumpkin, cantaloupe, and watermelon, according to an ACES press release. 

The topics discussed at this cucurbit meeting include variety selection, cucurbit disease identification, and cucurbit insect identification. The staff is also planning to have a watermelon taste test during this event. They will bring a few different cultivars from the experiment station. Visitors can feel free to bring a watermelon from your garden to add to the taste test.  

Extension Specialist Dr. Andre da Silva and Regional Extension agents Dani Carroll and Chip East will host the discussion. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will end at 12:00 noon. 

On Friday, July 26, the meeting will take place in Chambers County. The meeting in Chambers County is not in the Extension office but at the ALFA Building in LaFayette (1006 Ave. A SE, LaFayette).

Other events will be held throughout the week throughout other Extension offices. On Tuesday, July 23, the meeting will be held in the Coosa County Extension Office at 243 Coosa County Road 75, Rockford (Next to Coosa Central High School in Hanover). On Thursday, July 25, the meeting will be held in the Cleburne County Extension Office at 72 Brockford Road in Heflin. 

To sign up or for more information, contact the Extension office in the county where you would like to attend the workshop as space may be limited. 

The Chambers County Extension Office’s contact number is 334-864-9373. If you have any additional questions about this meeting, you can call Chip East at 256-846-0314, Dani Carroll at 256-458-6043 or Jacob Turner at 334-401-9164.