Kazahk Melon

[mythkat]

The melon was never white only green. They are sprawling but not huge. The name on the package is Kazah but I couldn't find anything under that spelling. :/

 

[digitS']

If these do well near the south end of Nevada, close to Las Vegas & Death Valley, that wouldn't be a guarantee of doing well up here. I suppose that this area is closer to Ridgerunner's Kazahkastan than that part of the world. The mistake that some folks around here get into is thinking that their gardens can be like the Puget Sound gardens. That's a big mistake.

Lots of Ukrainians have moved here in recent years and the Volga Deutsche came here years and years ago. I think that they both found it quite a bit like home.

That's important to veggie varieties, from my experience. As Ridgerunner reports on the Kazakh Honeydew Melon, "Important Info : They can be difficult to grow outside the region in which they were developed." I think that is a fairly common characteristic and our job as gardeners is to "make 'em feel like home."

Steve

 

[digitS']

Here is one of my Asian melons from a few years ago. I think I was supposed to wait until the "gold" went right on out to the skin. It had a nice flavor but wasn't very sweet:

Of course, I could say that this neck of the woods isn't much like southern China either . . . But, I might be able to do that one right if'n I try it again.

Steve

 

[davaroo]

Give 'Collective Farm Woman' a try, Steve.

 

[digitS']

David, she looks like she might feel right at home.

S