[NAFEX] Melons

Joe Hecksel jhecksel at voyager.net
Wed Aug 21 17:06:09 EDT 2002


Hi all:

We are harvesting melons.  Many of my neighbors gave up on muskmelon due 
to ants.  

I grew two cultivars of melon this year:
Primo: a standard orange fleshed, heavily netted selection
Passport: a honeydew X muskmelon cross with very shallow, widely spaced 
netting.

The ants are ripping into the Primo but have not touched the Passport.  
I suspect it is because Passport's smoother skin is tougher and more 
resistant to cracking where it touches the ground.  The ants are denied 
easy entry.

I am not a big fan of green fleshed melons, but Passport is a keeper.  
Heavy yields, ant resistant, musk melon aromatics.

Best regards from Eaton Rapids, USDA Zone 5.
-- 
Joe Hecksel
Personal Webpage http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel




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