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Post by biorag on Sept 15, 2008 10:39:43 GMT -5
Good, Michel !  I'm still waiting for my first "Lunéville". Yesterday as we went back home : a honeydew green fleshed, one of the best in my opinion.  |
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Post by canadamike on Sept 15, 2008 11:01:50 GMT -5
Oups!! Looks like that one has all it takes to change my opinion on honeydews!!!! How come you did not invite me to eat it with you? Our Lunéville friend, despite all its vertues, is a late melon. I still have 4 big ones waiting in the garden, and it is a bit late. The oval shape appeared somewhat later in its history. The first ones were perfectly round, like PRESCOTT with the occasional oval now it is reversed. The Lunéville people are now working on re-establishing the round form as the dominant one, respectful of the memory of the good king Stanislas. I'll take the football shaped one ( our football my friend, not yours, wich we call soccer here) and cross it with MANITOBA, looking terribly similar, to get an early version of it. I also have decided that next year, I will graft some, like PETIT GRIS DE RENNES, onto cucurbita moschata rootstock. I would not do it on an unknown melon, for sake of evaluation, but its not like if PGRennes and a couple of other fellows are new kids on the block!! Going to the garden to see if there is sweet food for me there.... |
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Post by Alan on Sept 18, 2008 21:38:47 GMT -5
So this thing definetly goes on the Alan must grow in 2009 list guys?
It certainly looks and sounds appealing!
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Post by grungy on Sept 19, 2008 0:13:27 GMT -5
Both.
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Post by biorag on Sept 19, 2008 0:47:46 GMT -5
How come you did not invite me to eat it with you? Our Lunéville friend, despite all its vertues, is a late melon. I still have 4 big ones waiting in the garden, and it is a bit late. Sorry for my silence ! You're always invited Michel ! I agree with Michel (the other "Monsieur de Lunéville") ;D, it is a bit late, maybe it could be cross with and earlier one. Seeds for everybody, of course. We'll see that in automn. The last melons, I'm waiting are Lunéville (soccer shaped), Banana ( a field mouse began to eat it) and latest noir des Carmes if they want become ripe ! |
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Post by canadamike on Sept 19, 2008 1:31:56 GMT -5
On the other hand, Gérard, we both planted it late too. My third one is eaten now, so it gave me my biggest ''edible'' harvest up to now.
I'll describe the method they use in LUNÉVILLE, they do it that way to respect history: they are basically grown under low tunnels. They dig a trench about one foot deep, filled with FRESH MANURE, and cover it with older manure and finaly the the soil in the top 4 inches or so.
Most of their melons were sold and eaten by July 22 or something like that. LUNÉVILLE is in Lorraine, a mountainus area close to Germany, certainly not the warmest part of France. Something like a NYC climate.
Here, I put my first ones in the ground in the end of June and early July, 7 or so, for Lunéville.
In a normal season, we would not even think of it as late. It is spending so much energy to produce a big harvest, something has to give somewhere...
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Post by biorag on Sept 21, 2008 7:07:18 GMT -5
Finally I got my first Lunéville ... and a banana ! They are two excellent and juicy melons. In my opinion with caution given bad year of 2008 : banana is more sweetened.   |
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Post by grungy on Sept 21, 2008 12:29:21 GMT -5
Please remember us for seeds, please.
Cheers,
Val / grungy and Dan / grunt
P.S. They both look delicious.
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Post by canadamike on Sept 21, 2008 14:05:04 GMT -5
Biorag, as far as I know, this LUNEVILLE is not ripe yet. This is the color of an unripened one. The green marks become yellow-brownish when ripe.
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Post by biorag on Sept 22, 2008 2:28:19 GMT -5
Please remember us for seeds, please. Cheers, Val / grungy and Dan / grunt P.S. They both look delicious. Of course Val !  Cheers Gérard |
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Post by biorag on Sept 22, 2008 2:32:11 GMT -5
Biorag, as far as I know, this LUNEVILLE is not ripe yet. This is the color of an unripened one. The green marks become yellow-brownish when ripe. The Lunéville just began to turn yellow and was juicy. The taste was comparative as noir des carmes. The banana is sweeter and less juicy, maybe too much melting for me and not enough flesh. I'll don't grow it again. |
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Post by biorag on Sept 24, 2008 11:45:05 GMT -5
The last melons. The foliage is practically dead :   |
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