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  • From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] watermelon variety
  • Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:37:28 -0400

We have done galia and charantais in unheated hoop house in zone 5. but not water melon. Sugar baby is a good one-sweet red fleshed and early. I do not believe there are any GMO melons commercially available so don't worry about that. I don't know of any red fleshed small/fridge type watermelons that are heirloom.


On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

Sugar Baby is always a great little watermelon (they will have to
hand-pollinate). Are your friends also in zone 5? I'm interested in the
economics of growing winter melons in zone 5...it must take a LOT of heat
and light. I crunched the numbers and it didn't work for me. They might
want to consider a higher-value 'gourmet' melon, like a Charantais. They are
unusual (at least around here) and people love them. I grow melons in my
zone 5 greenhouse in the summer. The first are just ripening. This cool
summer they needed all the extra warmth the greenhouse could give them!

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Moore" <caverdjmoore AT hotmail.com>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:36 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] watermelon variety



Hello - My friends have a large greenhouse and are getting ready for their
fall/winter CSA. Does anybody have a favorite watermelon variety? It has to
be small fruited so it can grow vertically and needs red/pink flesh. I
personally prefer an heirloom but they are open to commercial varieties as
long as they are not genetically modified. Any suggestions?

DebM
zone 5

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