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- From: "Joe Hecksel" <jhecksel@voyager.net>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Melons
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:06:09 -0400
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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[NAFEX] Melons,
Joe Hecksel, 08/21/2002
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- Re: [NAFEX] Melons, Richard J. Ossolinski, 08/21/2002
- Re: [NAFEX] Melons, Henry Slade, 08/23/2002
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