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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] A melon for all ya up north
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:11:23 -0400


I remember that article!
I'm pretty sure I wasn't a member of NAFEX quite that far back but, when I joined, sometime in the 80s, I wanted more and ordered all available back issues of Pomona. With that information, I ordered some "Early Dawn" seeds and started growing melons. Over a period of years, I grew it along with about 7 or 8 other kinds of muskmelons. (I tried some watermelons too.) Early Dawn was always the best. I ordered the Early Dawn seeds from Harris Seeds. The last time I looked, it was not in their catalog.
Our growing season is so cool that even Early Dawn couldn't produce without some extreme measures. I wrote, here, about how I did it some time ago. It was a bit of work and I haven't taken the time to do it for several years now. I'll try to post my method here later. Maybe later this evening.

Steve in the Adirondacks


fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:
Gang:

Well why looking through old Pomonas for Donna I did determine that Melons
are a NAFEX approved topic as at least one discussion was printed in Pomona
in April of 1981.

In an article entitle “A Melon For Northern Gardeners” David Imes who lived about a quarter mile form the Canadian Border in Minn experimented with growing 30 varieties of melons, direct seeded outdoors. He found one winner, a melon known as Early Dawn. So for colder climate growers it looks like you have a melon with potential to run some trails with in the future.
Regards,

Lil ol' me

Bibliography:

David Imes “A Melon For Norther Gardeners”, Pomona, The North American Fruit
Explorers Quarterly, Vol. XIV No. 2, April 1981, p. 89.





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