The square boxes are the exact dimensions of Japanese refrigerators, allowing full-grown watermelons to fit conveniently and precisely onto refrigerator shelves. But cubic fruit comes with a ...

What you will need In order to make this square treat, you'll need to start growing a watermelon vine and wait until there are baby melons on it. Additionally, you'll need a box with which to ...

Barbara Sikes explained that watermelon seeds go into a square box and needs enough rain can make the melon "grow and square up." To get the sides more square and cube-like as someone would find ...

Urban Fare has donated one square watermelon to the Coal Harbour Community Centre for a children’s program. The melons get their squat shape by being grown inside hinged glass boxes with a lid ...

Each year, farmers in Japan place baby watermelons in a square plastic box. As the fruit matures, it takes on the shape of a cube. Each cube-shaped watermelon costs over $100. They will be sold at ...

To start with, those odd-looking square watermelons in the picture above? Their genes weren’t messed with. They were grown in boxes. Actually: There is no alternative. Stores do not sell ...

Japanese are incredibly creative when it comes to producing out-of-the-box fruit. Square watermelons, which are typically sold only at expensive department stores, were originally intended for space ...

Watch a timelapse of the way that a Square Watermelon is grown in Japan. The watermelon is grown in a glass and metal box, where it molds to the shape of the box over the course of 2 weeks.

The prevalence of square watermelons in Japan is greatly exaggerated ... The product ships in a cube-shaped box decorated with a watermelon rind pattern, which is actually a pretty good description of ...