Garden Game: 95-pound watermelon

Published 12:00 am Friday, September 12, 2008

Davis Brown, 3, with Papaw Ronald Taylor’s 95-pound watermelon, which was weighed at Goodman Supply in China Grove on a certified scale. The seeds from which the pictured watermelon was grown were out of a 170-pound watermelon. His mother, Andrea Taylor Brown, appeared in the Garden Game in the mid-’80s with a 22-pound cantaloupe, also grown by her father, Ronald Taylor.