Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Nate Bradford descends from a family that loved to tinker with plants; his great grandfather made crosses of various crops on his farm and one successful result was a delicious watermelon. While Nate was working at job way up in Pennsylvania, (he got a degree in landscape architecture) he read an article by University of South Carolina Professor David Shields who is fascinated by the historic cultivars and varieties