sue,
I grew Blacktail Mountain last year. I didn't get too many fruits but the ones I did harvest were very tasty. They have seeds.
Flip
Let's talk melons!
How are your melons doing Flip? Mine are doing very well and claiming their own territory if you know what I mean? I'm having a whale of a time trying to keep the vines off the lawn and keep them in my garden. Next season I'll only plant two melons per EB instead of three. I'll take some more pictures later but for now I'm letting them recover from the beating they took from a bad storm three deays ago. Hope it didn't hurt yours?
TP, they're just starting to produce vines. I was gone the past week and couldn't look after them but they weathered whatever rain we had while I was gone. They look fairly good but II need to spray for buggies today. I'll post some pics when they get as little bigger.
Flip
I just ate a home grown cantelope a few days ago. By far the best melon I have every eaten.
I am growing Noir De Carmes. I can't wait until they are ready.
Hey People? How about some pictures for those of us that are drooling??? How bout it fool??
STILL NOTHING TO SHOW? DOES ANYONE HAVE SOME MELONS TO SHARE
WITH US?????
I have blooms... LOL
gotta have blooms before fruit!
Some of us have fruit developing. I was hoping to see some pictures but I guess I'll have to wait for mine? Meanwhile we have been getting heavy rain and very humid weather so tomorrow I will spray Ortho Garden Disease Control to prevent mold as melons are very susceptible to this fungus. Also will spray "Messenger" as a back-up. So far my plants look extremely healthy and I would like to keep them that way.
TPlant--get any rain over your way?
Patience, Plant; Our farmers markets are being flooded with Florida melons right now. Usually the fourth of July for middle Georgia, but everything is late this year.
Right, Farmer...about 10 days late for me. Early melons are just setting fruit .
Loads of flowers.not setting fruit yet.
I guess I'm a little behind....I just started getting blooms on my Rockford Honeydew and Iroquois Canteloupe. No blooms yet on any of my watermelon vines. Last Sunday I planted Blacktail Mountain and Scaleybark watermelons - waiting on them to pop. Also time for me to spray for fungus, etc.
Flip
O.K. Plant, because you were kind as to send Alberto up this way which brought us some very much needed rain, Here is a picture of this years watermelon patch,
One of the earliest to set (Cream of Sakatchewan/ White Sugar Lump). Most of the others are setting now, but fist size and smaller.
Now that's more like it! We had some good rain here also but not as much as anticipated. It was short downpours. I too have lots of blooms and possibly developing melons but it's hard to say because I can't see clearly into the vines and I don't want to mess with them as the vines are delicate.
I was at my daughter's place yesterday about 80 miles northwest...on the edge of the prairie. Everthing up there grows so well. Her fruit trees really do well. and her watermelons I set out on the 23rd of May are about 4 or 5 feet long. Mine here are really growing after so much rain and cold in May.
At her place I set out Sangria, Orangeglo, Raspa, Yellow Doll and Jade.
I just ate a quarter of a store bought melon. Soon I'll have my own in about 60 days or less.
yum, yum Farmer!
Went out to water my melon plants today and guess what?? I've got melons! Wow! Didn't notice them yesterday because of all the foilage but I looked under them today and I have some beauts. Honeydew and Persians galore. One is already huge. Couldn't find any watermelon but I didn't stay out to long as it was hot. 92 with the sun overhead and now when it is cooler we have a thunder storm rolling in. Will have to wait till morning when I take pictures. They seem to have developed overnite. I planted the seed on 5/5. If all goes well I'll grow melons during my hot months when I can't grow tomatos and tomatos during our fall winter season. I can grow some variety of tomato in hot weather but quality must be sacrificed and that I will not do...
Can't wait for the pictures... We bought a melon at the store a few days ago and what a disssapointment!
Stepped on a rock and twisted my ankle so I couldn't take pictures today. All melons are in EBs and they seem to enjoy it.
Here are a some shots of my honeydews. This is a Barcelona with a few brothers in the background. They are doing very well in my EBs.
A fairly nice size Venus hybrid honeydew. They are rapid growers. You can judge the size by my hand. Their is another in the back under the leaves, however, not quite as large. I bought the seeds from Parks.
A Honeymoon Hybrid also from Parks. Real nice size. Don't know when they'll be ready as the growth is continueous.
Here is the same as above. I trained them to climb the fence because of my limited space. I'm going to cut up some old bird netting I have and make slings to support them so they don't fall off. Notice the little one to the right. On some plants I have about five that I can see.
Just think? This is what they looked like less than a month ago! Ain't nature somethin??? This picture was originally taken on 5/28.
This message was edited Jun 20, 2006 6:05 PM
Wow TPlant--honeydew melons.....yum!
Debbie...How are you surviving the floods?
I was hand pollinating a Sugar Queen cantaloupe and I noticed that there was already a baseball sized melon set on!
Plant; there are no pictures and few comments on these cultivars in Plantfiles.
Just some rain and only one small neighborhood flooded--media hype. Everything's great--finally have some good normal summer rains.
OK Farmer --- I'll let them get a little bigger and then it will be my pleasure. Perhaps I should show my Parks Honeymoon Hybrid? Decided to wait until I taste test then I will post in plant files.
This message was edited Jun 22, 2006 3:46 PM
Awesome looking melons Tplant, I still don't have any yet.
TP - those melons look great! Nice pics. I like the way you're training some up your fence. You'll have to give us some tasting results pretty soon.
I've got flowers all over my 4 older mounds - two melons and two watermelons - but no fruit has set yet. Shouldn't be too long.
Flip
Here is a picture of some of my watermelons. Note the Sangria melon in foreground.
This message was edited Jun 26, 2006 1:04 PM
No watermelon yet! I'm growing Rattlesnake Watermelon but nothing yet. They will be the last to show. This is fine by me. After I have my fill of assorted melons I'll go to watermelons...
This is the first year I have planted melons, wound up with one surviving cantalope which is wandering happily through my block of corn and down through the peppers. Do you need more than one plant to pollinate? It looks like some babies starting to form, but not sure. Also have one lonely moon and stars watermelon just starting to vine and trail. Will it pollinate itself? I was amazed at how much the cantalope spread. It is going in all directions, seems impervious to the heat because it gets shaded by the corn and peppers. Its seems to be an awesome plant and would be tickled silly to get fruit from it. It is sooooo hard to grow here.
The melons will be pollinated with only one plant.......as long as some small fly, ant, or bee is around. Course you can also hand pollinate them of a morning.