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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 31, 2017 11:18:54 GMT -5
On 4/16 I started the seeds, on 5/11 I transplanted them. I cut one yesterday....but it was not quite ripe. So I think at least another week, maybe 2. Of course it's been rabidly hot here...I'm foaming at the mouth....so that may have something to do with the rapidity of them.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 2, 2017 10:52:34 GMT -5
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 7, 2017 16:10:06 GMT -5
I've now found a few more melons set and growing. These look dark green and ribbed. Not sure what they'll be when they grow up (musk melons?) But I'm excited. We're having a fairly cool week. Zucchini has a few spots of powdery mildew but still producing fruit well. The melons and cucumbers are going strong, no PM yet. I hope it warms up a little more and the cucurbits go strong for another month, we probably need at least that much for melons to mature.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 8, 2017 12:38:16 GMT -5
Marygolds are here! Anne Arundel, and Collective Farm Woman...also a few Grover Delaneys....whee!
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Post by ferdzy on Aug 9, 2017 12:00:26 GMT -5
Slow, slow summer here. Melons about fist-sized, both the musk melons and watermelons. Looks like melons for halloween!
Yay.
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 10, 2017 14:17:05 GMT -5
Yeah, the summer's been cool and slow here, too. I haven't even harvested a ripe full-sized tomato yet, and it's mid-August! But it looks like I've now got at least four different types of melons set and sizing up. The plants just kinda sit there when we get a spate of cloudy, cool weather, but as soon as we get a warm sunny day they grow noticeably overnight. I think the sandy soil and southern exposure is treating them well. Even the Gris des Rennes is doing well, as I noted earlier. 12540dumont it made me laugh that you're growing a melon named after a conservative southern Maryland county (Anne Arundel) in California. It does well for you? |
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 12, 2017 21:17:51 GMT -5
MsK, It does well, but I don't love it. To tell the truth, it tastes like cantaloupe and I'd much rather have honeydew. Now those Marygolds are terrific! I took the Anne Arundel's peeled 'em, seeded 'em, cut them in chunks and now they are floating in water with a lemon, a lime and an orange. In 2 days, they'll be melon water. Oh so refreshing on these hot days. The running favorite here is cuke, Tulsi Basil and lime....and the young folk like lime, melon, strawberry.
Sometimes I just get too much of a good thing and right now, it's WAY too hot to can. Yeah, we're so liberal, we'll grow conservative!
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 28, 2017 11:42:19 GMT -5
I have a bunch of melons, at least 5 different varieties. That's the good news. The bad news is that the long stretches of cloudy, cool weather stressed the vines and they're all succumbing to some disease, bacterial wilt maybe? I picked one gris de rennes unripe because it's vine was dead. Meh. Picked another kind (was green and scaly but turned golden and fragrant over the past two days a kinda slipped from the vine) but haven't tasted yet. Not sure how many more will ripen before the vines plotz...too bad, as the weather is finally warm and dry.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 29, 2017 21:23:19 GMT -5
And the winner is:
My family has weighed in.....Ferdzy's Turkish Melon was voted: BEST MELON EVER....EVER! Ferdzy, take a bow. Kavun. Yup it's a good melon!
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Post by ferdzy on Aug 30, 2017 13:16:32 GMT -5
And the winner is: My family has weighed in.....Ferdzy's Turkish Melon was voted: BEST MELON EVER....EVER! Ferdzy, take a bow. Kavun. Yup it's a good melon! Huh? I sent you a Turkish melon? Why don't I remember this... why don't I have this... are you sure it was from me? I mean, I'd love to take the credit but I don't think so. |
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 30, 2017 14:02:43 GMT -5
Ferdzy's Turkish--even if you have no idea what it is, ferdzy, we'll give you credit! Here on the opposite coast we also have a winner. I tasted the golden, fragrant melon. It weighed a little over 5lb, yellow rind like a canary melon but lightly netted, and orange flesh like a cantaloupe. Sweet, melon-y but not musky. The fragrance added to the enjoyment of eating it. My oldest daughter thought it was almost too sweet and intensely flavored. I have no idea what variety it was. If you do, feel free to suggest...I bought the seed from either Fedco or Johnny's Selected. Must search my notes. Tomorrow I plan on trying the second ripe one-- green and ribbed like a flattish acorn squash. Turned golden in patches, smells spicy-fragrant and force-slipped from the vine. |
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