The conduit in the back is a row of tall spindle apples and the structure behind that is a grape enclosure with bird netting and chicken wire. I will redo that structure next spring to match the blueberry enclosure to the right.
I put my potted blueberries in the grape enclosure this spring but will move them back up by the house in the fall because the squirrels figured out how to get in.
Cool. An enclosure has to be one heck of a nice thing.
Dax
I am thinking about enclosing my tall spindle apples as well. It is a must where I am living, I would get absolutely no fruit harvests if it were not for the enclosures I have.
I have some really nice apples that are starting to blush right now and I am concerned that they will be hit but all live traps are baited.
I grew raspa and truck buster last year and they were both awesome. This year nowhere near as many or size, not sure why but everything is growing differently than I am used to.
I know this isnât an exotic one, but I planted 4 vines of crimson sweet this year and I just cut up our second watermelon. 2 more should be ready in a week or so. I grow them for my family, as I dislike it myself, but outside of the space issue, Iâm not sure why everyone doesnât grow them. I have had zero problems with them except for a powdery mildew issue that killed a bit of the plant but that was all. Theyâre easy to grow and supposedly taste much better than store-bought (I wouldnât know, lol.)
Iâve enjoyed reading everyoneâs experience, it gave me a lot of confidence in growing the watermelons!
attempting to grow some cantaloupe and watermelon. they donât like our cool short summers so i got them in the greenhouse .growing slowly but i have 3 vines growing with flowers now . hopefully they can produce a few melons/ cantaloupe for me. donât remember the cultivars but theyâre for a short season.
You can borrow some hot weather if you like. I have more than enough!
This has become one of those years, where past norms and patterns
just donât apply to anything.
Update on my 15 gallon crimson sweet watermelon experiment.
Oldest melonâŚseems to be stuck at this size.
2nd melonâŚthis one is much younger, and growing very quickly.
Size looks to be an issue so i would try a bigger pot next year. Everything is super healthy. Vines are very long.
What a cute little boy and perfect looking Charleston Grey! Quite large, too. And yep, those are always my first melons to ripenâŚoften even before sugar baby/blacktail mountain which are reputed to be some of the first to ripen. Well done!
Do you ever have traits of one melon show up
In the other like on the allsweet with the âmoonsâ
Iâve heard of such things, and weâve had discussions here before about why I and another man I know who grows lots of different varieties donât get crosses with mixed characteristics from each other. Both myself and a man across the street from me grow many different varieties side by side and neither of us has ever seen any new, mixed breeds (that we could detect). The fruit experts like fruitnut insist that it has to be happening and biology says it must. All I can tell you is me nor my neighbor have ever seen a melon we could say for sure was a cross. I save and replant some seeds, but mostly buy new ones so I understand why Iâm not seeing crosses. The man across from me has been growing watermelons over 50 years and ALWAYS uses seeds from the year beforeâŚyet gets no obvious crosses or signs of mixed traits like you are talking about. I know this drives fruitnut crazy, and I get why, but I can only tell you what weâve observed personally. Doesnât mean you wonât see crosses, and it doesnât mean we arenât getting crosses that just donât show obvious traits of both melons. Or maybe some varieties are different enough that they donât cross well or at all. I canât explain it. I can only answer your question by saying âno, I havenât seen any traits from one melon show up in anotherâ. You might?
You donât think those are little moons showing up on my striped melon in the first pic
Somehow I missed that photo and post. Yea, I must say that does look like that thing could be crossed with a moon and stars. Which of course begs the question, did you save the seeds for it from last year? If so, did you grow both varieties last year? Even if you bought the seeds new, they could have come from a place that had both varieties cross. On the other hand, Iâm not sure irregularities on a single melon is 100% confirmation of a crossâŚbut like you said, it looks like it!
Do all of the melons on that plant look like that? If they do, my guess would be that a moon & stars seed got mixed in with the allsweet seed; and you planted a M&S, thinking you planted an ASâŚ
No they donât and the plant doesnât have the speckled leaves like moon and stars. Also moon and stars, at least the ones I am growing, are not striped
Those are just from two different packages of store bought seeds from grow organic
