I have what might be considered a great soil for melons, a dark sandy loamDo you mean that you've been planting the melons year after year in the same spot, and without fertilizing?
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 7
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