Melons
Rockmelon
Minnesota Midget
Cucumis melo
- Description
- My favourite rockmelon, small and very sweet, orange fleshed fruit. Must be in full sun. Frost tender.
They are ripe when they come away from the vine very easily (with a gently pull) and they smell ripe.
- Uses
- Eat fresh, ice blocks, cut in half scoop out the seeds and fill with yogurt or ice cream.
- Purchased From
- Diggers, 30 seeds per packet
- Date Seed Sown
- 1 September, in pots indoors
- Date Planted in Garden
- Around Melbourne cup day
- Harvest date
- From around the end of January to early March
- Pruning
- I grow these rockmelon vertically, they can be very prolific Once a rockmelon has formed, the tip of the side shoot is pinched out.
Old leaves are removed.
- Fertilise
- Soil was prepared about 4 weeks before planting the seedlings with compost.
- Other uses
- The skin is put in the worm farm or composted. The seeds are feed to the chickens
Watermelon
Sugar Baby
Citrullus lanatus
- Description
- Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a frost tender annual flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family. Red flesh with seeds, heirloom.
- Uses
- Eat fresh, ice blocks
- Purchased From
- Diggers seed (20 seeds per packet)
- Date Seed Sown
- 1 September, in pots indoors
- Date Planted in Garden
- Around Melbourne cup day
- Harvest
- Summer
- First Harvest date
- 2018
- Pruning
- Pinch off side shoots
- Fertilise
- Soil was prepared about 4 weeks before planting the seedlings with compost.
- Other uses
- The skin is put in the worm farm, given to the chickens or composted. The seeds are feed to the chickens
