Will this watermelon stay on or should I cut the fence?
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Yep a hammock. As the fruit grows, the weight will drag down the vine and kink it on the chicken wire fence, so support it with to take the weight off the vine. I like using something that dries easily like nylon stocking, tights, onion/lemon net bag... And sturdy haystring. If animals -- squirrels, chipmunks, larger -- may munch on the melon, you may want to make a chicken wire or hardware cloth cage hammock.
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We were at our lower place and found the watermelon had grown through the fence there also. We have a protected area with an electric charger to keep out the rabbits. There are two melons, small thumb size, on the vine so we ran a hot wire around it rather than cut it off where it exited the garden.