How to store watermelons at home?

Tell me, did anyone keep watermelons at home? Share your impressions, is it possible, where is it better, etc.? I really want to eat another slice of watermelon for the new year, remember the summer

when I was three years old we lived on Pechora. Once we brought a truck with watermelons there and we bought ... in general, we kept a lot of them under the bed (we filled up almost all the space under the bed), for a very long time. the truth did not make it until the new year - they ate earlier

To be honest, I have never harvested watermelons for use. But I remembered what my husband had told me.
When they lived in Siberia under the Sov. Union. Watermelons were brought to them green, because they were brought from Astrakhan. They buy it, bring it home, cut it up, and it's not even pinkish. And you want a watermelon. Here they cut it off, salt it and eat it like a watermelon.
Still, as they already lived in Ukraine, they fermented watermelons in barrels. I tried it once and didn't like it terribly.

Three years ago I managed to save the watermelon until NG. An Uzbek who sells watermelons in a net on the street told, for which I thank him.
You need to choose an autumn watermelon, thick-skinned, dark in color, preferably large in size (more likely to be ripe), such a watermelon has large dark seeds. Better to try beforehand one of the batch. At home we put a pillow in a basin and a watermelon on it, in a cool place. Nuance - every day the watermelon must be turned over, preferably several times. When we left, a neighbor went to play our watermelon
They opened it on NG-sugar, the middle was a little empty, but it did not affect the taste. I could lie still

Pickled and canned watermelons (recipes) (Lenusya)

Salted watermelon (for storage in a cellar or refrigerator) (Yuliya K)

Watermelons in their own juice (Giraffe)