Sugar Cube hybrid mini cantaloupe. One of the sweetest melons I’ve ever eaten. If they’re all like this I’ll be planting again.
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What a great looking mini melon! I’ve been researching smaller melon varieties due to limited garden space, would you recommend Sugar Cube for a small raised bed?
Kholodok more normal sized than the earlier ones. Haven’t cut it yet, have a bunch left from another still in the fridge
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The vines take up less space than watermelon but are still going to be spilling out of raised beds I would say.
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My first Golden Midget. Good taste, not as much seed as it would seem from the photo. I am only sorry all the other plants fell victims to the plague of slugs we’ve had in spring. There’s always next year.
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Golden Midget should be about 50% larger and should have higher seed count. Otherwise looks as it should.
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I think the size is on me and my ducks. The seedling looked whimpy, so I gave it one of the worst free spots in semi-shade and then the ducks broke through a barrier and stomped all over the base. Since I’m crap at growing both melons and cucumbers (I have moderate success with Marketmore - probably fool-proof?), I’m happy I got to enjoy this one.
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I harvested a goddess melon after the vine died. It was very ripe but not as sweet as the melons in the store. Probably because my coastal climate.
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Melons coming in strong now in Colorado. Sweet Dakota Rose watermelon, Lily crenshaw and Lofthouse landrace.
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Burpee Ambrosia hybrid - this one separated from the tendril on its own. The rest of the crop looks like they need a bit more time. It’s a couple weeks early from time to maturity. Sweet but not super sweet. Hoping the rest have more sugar.
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not sure what it is but it was delicious. it looked bad, unripe when I cut it but it was fine
tendril was dead, spoon leaf too, thumped good.
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small melon patch this year. 6 hills each of watermelon and musk melon. Had a vole eating holes in the muskmelons earlier in the season. I was able to trap and bait them near the hills where the plastic is slit. Its been dry and rained in waves, so quite a bit of internal splitting in the watermelons. I grew out F-2 seed of last years’ tie dye variety. Looka like it may be a stable trait. Also my earliest and best producer of the 3 watermelons Im growing, the others being ‘Blacktail Mt’ and ‘Leelanau Sweetglow’. All in all a good melon year, despite some unexpected “hurdles”. Few things as good as fresh vine ripe melon.
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