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Planting, Growing, and Harvesting Cantaloupes
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Start out by sowing 6 seeds per "hill" no earlier than 2 weeks after the last frost date. Then thin to 2 or 3 plants per "hill".
Being that, I have animals of all kinds. I push all the manure from all of them into a pile every year. I do not add sand and, do not have to water at all.
My suggestion to anyone wanting a work free garden (After planting) is to, ask you local farmer to drop off a (Mason Dump) truck load of manure in one pile.
Take a shovel and, shove it into the pile with the spade straight down then pull it straight out to create a ledge (Strawberry Pot, Sandcastle kind of effect).
Plant in the ledge be it seed or, plant and, let it go, walk away, you're done.
The manure stays warm and moist all summer even in a dry year. If you plan on going on vacation for a month? Run the hose out and soak the entire pile so, you won't have to worry about it.
I yield more zukes, cukes, melons, beans tomatoes, carrots, beets, pumpkins, watermelons, swiss chard, etc, etc, etc, and especially collard greens than I can eat, give away or, put up. I feed the animals any blemished fruits during the growing season to make next years compost even better.
I still have collards in the freezer from last years harvest and they are still DELICIOUS !
I do not use store bought pesticide or, fertilizers of any kind. I did throw down food grade D.E. for the stink bugs last year and, it worked great but, it worked great on the bees and, my oh so loved ladybugs as well so, I had to hand pollinate which takes forever. This year I am raising praying mantis as my only means of pesticide. They will assist in pollination and, eat the stink bugs and other creepy crawlies. The ladybugs stand a chance this way too.
Happy planting to all I hope this helps?
"Store" your own food, Stay out of the pesticidal stores"
Your plan is a very good one. I live in the Ssese islands, Uganda and here rain and sun is guaranteed... Would like to plant the melons and I know will need help from time to time.
I do other things as well so I don't want the new initiative to take so much of my time...advise. Thanksgivings
I have a Melorange Cantaloupe that I took the seeds out of and was wondering what the growing time is from seed germination to harvest.
These are small melons, so somebody asked me if they should be treated like the midget melons or like full sized melons.
Apparently they are a cross between an heirloom French melon and a regular Cantaloupe.
They are currently being grown in Guatemala but there doesn't seem to be much specific info on them other than the name Melorange is a brand name rather than an actual species. They haven't divulged the two species used to produce them other than in vague terms.
Melorange is a hybrid that's meant to ship better and extend shelf life (as well as good flavor). Since it is a hybrid, you really can't grow it from seed true-to-form.
I have 11 acres of sandy loam along an irrigation ditch. The property is located in a warm area in Mexico. Please advise.
I would say melons are really easy to plant and care for and that would b a great start all i did was i bought a melon at the local grocery organic of course, then i dried the seeds and about a week later i put them in a dark garden container and after that they surprised me , i figured i would get one or 2 from the 50 plus seeds but i got about 50 plants out of that one melon, i left them to get roots for about 1 week and then transfer them to my plot not all plants took on the ground but that's why i planted so many just in case, i can tell you i have some beautiful fruit and it was all ease but i do suggest you planting flowers around and in between your crop so that the bees can pollinate that will give you alot of fruit unlike hand pollination.
My wife and I are growing cantaloupe Hydroponically. We have good plants, lots of flowers. We are indoors and we use a paint brush to pollinate the flowers. Has cantaloupe been hydroponically grown before and what's the secret. We mist all are plants on a daily basis and hope it isn't affecting us getting fruit.
We have not grown melons this way. However, it is fine to mist because you deter mites on your melons. Be very gentle and careful when you hand pollinate as the small flowers are very delicate.
When I spreaded out my compost soil in early summer around my bushes little did I know that they had muskmelon seeds! Now, it's October and I have several good size melons growing but not ripe yet.they are in a little "Microclimate" close to the house that gets alot of south sun but now getting colder and rainy. Should I pull them off the vine or wait until it gets sunny again but cool still.