How do you like my melons?

[catjac1975]

Hard to tell the size. Try my trick of lifting it up into the sun on a pot. Growing short season watermelons is the trick up north. They are just quite small. I would love to grow one of the giants that we see in supermarkets,When I was in Florida in May I saw a big truck loaded with giant watermelons and being sold for a dollar. Made me realize that northern grown was a lot of work for what they can do so easily in the south. Still, for most of us it is the challenge under difficult conditions.

Very Nice melons Cat!! I bet they tasted amazing.

I wish I had some melons from the garden, I do have some Watermelons and even they are a challenge to grow up north.
Sometimes they form little baby watermelons, rot and fall off the vine, Not sure why this happens?


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Here is what my watermelon looks like today: Do you guys think it will have time to mature before summer ends? I'm hoping Summer will hang around a little longer. If only this melon developed a few weeks ago it would have a better chance to harvest.

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It is exciting though to see it almost double in size each day. Maybe it isn't too late for a watermelon harvest.

 

[Kassaundra]

My musk melons are already just about done. Boy, they are good. Unfortunately, they are in the "overgrown jungle" part of my garden. So, I have to tip toe around and dig in the leaves of the pumpkins, watermelons, cukes, and sweet potatoes to find them! You are right, that smell is heavenly!

I am convinced that is how yoga started some Indian guru trying to harvest the overgrown garden, or thorny berry patch.

 

[897tgigvib]

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Sometimes harvesting things reminds me of that party game, what was it called, twister? The plastic mat with all the colorful dots on it, and ya get all contorted putting your hands and feet at impossible places...

...now if i put my right foot right here I won't squish that plant and I might be able to get both hands there to pull those leaves...

 

[journey11]

I love the smell of a vine-ripe canteloupe. I'm going to try your trick next year. If we get lots of rain, I've had trouble with the bottoms rotting out on mine.

 

[lesa]

Kassandra, how funny that you say that about yoga! I stopped feeling guilty about not going to my yoga class this summer- I tell you picking the tomatoes and finding the melons more than slightly mirrors many of the yoga moves!!

 

[titansolarco]

Marvelous! Plants and these products you melons has a miracle delicious for us. It let be happy to taste. So i like your melons very much. As for as i fond of also melons than other fruits.
solar power la

 

[digitS']

I am now having some success in the melon patch, Cathy !

The first ripe canteloup was that tiny one that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. After that, a number of larger cantaloup ripened! Now, there are so many melons that we are having trouble getting thru them!

I say "melons" because there are 2 varieties. They might be from 2 species - I don't know. One is a cantaloup that is new-to-me: Goddess. It beat my often grown Passport to the table this year!

Passport is a Galia melon. It is really not much different from a honeydew, except for the rind. Passport has been my most successful melon over about the last 7 or 8 years. Other melon plants may die during our cold spring weather -- and, I don't mean freeze, sure that would kill them, but some varieties have just died from the above-freezing coolness and wind . Not Passport!

Now, I've got this Goddess that made it thru a very cool spring and actually ripened fruit first! It is real good, too! Problem is, it looks just like a Passport (Galia melon). The rind for both have that characteristic "eastern cantaloup" look to them. I mean, you really have to slice into the fruit to know wheather it is melon orange or honeydew green inside!

Both were developed by Dr. Brent Loy at the University of New Hampshire. I know that you folks in most of the country had a very warm start to the growing season but if you are where the spring is usually cool - I think that you may be happy with what Dr. Loy managed to get out on the market! Here is a little about his plant breeding from the University of New Hampshire (click). BTW, I suspect that these melons in my garden are half-sisters but be that as it may, they are very different inside that rind !

Steve