"How's Your Melons Doin'?"

[valley ranch]

Those melons look very nice!
This year was a deplorable year for melons. I was lazy and planted each on the same hill as last year instead of re constructing the mound, that was a mistake. The Armenian Cucumbers did well.

 

[Carol Dee]

DH brought this home tonight, he has no idea what he planted. He said it was a packet from Menards for Cantaloupe. What are they? They look and smell like one inside. He said it tasted a bit bland, but sweeter than normal cantaloupe. I do not eat melon so I am no judge.

 

[digitS']

A Christmas melon?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_melon

Steve

 

[Hal]

@Carol Dee Oddly enough apart from the skin color everything is spot on for a Crenshaw type cantaloupe.

 

[Smart Red]

I'm with Hal. Crenshaw was my first thought, although my first thought wasn't enough for me to offer the suggestion. I don't know what else was growing around "mother" last year to give it the green color. However, Rare Seeds shows a ripe green crenshaw and calls the fruit greenish yellow.

 

[Carol Dee]

@Smart Red and @Hal The flesh looks very much like a cantaloupe. Has flavor almost a cross between honeydew and cantaloupe. They where planted between some cucumber and zucchini. Any chance of an odd cross pollination?

 

[Smart Red]

Only if the cross could have happened to last year's seed. What ever you planted is what grew. There are no crosses the year of planting, only to the seed for next year.

 

[Carol Dee]

Only if the cross could have happened to last year's seed. What ever you planted is what grew. There are no crosses the year of planting, only to the seed for next year.

Ah-ha now I know something new. THANKS

 

[Smart Red]

However, Carol Dee, there are some who claim sweeter peppers planted in close proximity to hotter peppers can take on some of the heat of hotter ones. I have no evidence or experience with any such occurrence, just that it's something I've heard. In any case, it should have nothing to do with the seed varieties that were planted.

 

[thistlebloom]

Hmmm....I had sweets and hots growing cheek by jowl all mixed up in the pepper bed this year, and I haven't noticed any heat in the sweet peppers.