Christmas melon aka Piel de Sapo Melon aka Frog Skin melon.

Here is a link that might be useful: Piel de Sapo Melon

thanks for the reply milehighgirl, have you personally grown this one yourself and if so did you take any notes ie.month of sowing first flower fruit set etc. I read the review and one individual gave a pretty good account but I think we are in very different climactic zones. it usually takes me a lot longer to mature a melon here. I usually sow seeds mid April in a heated room which is kept at 80-85F and plant out mid may under mini green houses. It was a lot colder this year and I was set back a few weeks, probably won't harvest a ripe cantaloupe for another 3 weeks and water melons probably into September.

Glenn,

Your setup should work fine. I have planted and grown but not harvested and eaten my own. I purchased some melons at Sprouts, I think, and I thought they were very good for mid-winter melons.The tree rats beat me to mine, along with my other melons. That was a few years ago and I haven't bothered since.