[Homestead] A Question re Melons

Lynn Wigglesworth lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 30 07:55:38 EDT 2008


I'm certainly no expert on melons, but I think they split open when they 
are over-ripe. When were they planted? Here melons would have been ripe 
a month ago.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

Bunjov at aol.com wrote:
> I have a friend whose garden I was helping to tend over the summer, as she  
> stays in town near her job several nights a week.
>  
> She had planted tomatoes (done now), and peppers, and - for the first time  - 
> melons.
>  
> Everything did - or is doing - well. Except the melons. Now, I don't know  
> whether to call them melons or cantaloupes. They're the kind with all the  
> webbing on the skin?
>  
> She was worried they'd be damaged by lying on the damp ground, and wanted  to 
> make them some little macrame-type slings that would keep them growing 'up',  
> and therefore dry. 
>  
> She works near the local WallyWorld, so I suggested instead that she just  
> pop in and pick up a fifty-cent pair of thigh-high panty hose, and hang them up  
> on the chain link to grow.
>  
> We started calling them her "Joe Namath Melons", for those of you old  enough 
> to remember.
>  
> They were doing fine, until a couple of days ago, when she went out to find  
> that both of them (there were only two, hence the 'pair' of pantyhose) had 
> split  open, simultaneously at the bottom, and the ants were having their way 
> with  them.
>  
> We had spent the summer alternately moving the hose, with a miniscule  
> 'drip', from tomatoes to peppers to melons, etc. Was it the sporadic watering  that 
> did them in? Do I owe her two melons and a pair of panyhose?
>  
> Clues, anyone?
>  
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
>  
>  
> 
> 
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