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  • From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] A Question re Melons
  • Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:55:38 -0400


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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