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  • From: "Ward Barnes" <ward_p_barnes@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Melons
  • Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:07:08 +0000



In Florida many commercial growers would clear a new field and plant watermelon and then either allow the field to remain fallow or plant other crops for seven years before planting melons in the same field again
 
Ward Barnes, Wake, VA.
 
I have what might be considered a great soil for melons, a dark sandy loam >which heats up fast and drains very well. I grew great melons the first >year or two, but after that my melon plants had little vigor with little >growth, hardly enough to ripen one melon. I think this nice loose soil >loses its nutrition quickly, and needs lots of good stuff like manure added >back to it in order to grow hi-nutrient-needing plants like melons. >Opinions anyone? > >Sandy soils are notoriously infertile. If melons like sandy soils so much, >how do they get the nutrition they need to grow so fast in one season? > >Dave Consolvo >Hungrytown, Virginia >Zone


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