anyone have recommendations for good keeper melon?

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Posted by glenn10 5a New Brunswick (My Page) on

Fri, Jul 25, 14 at 19:17

I am already planning next years melon patch and would like to know if anyone has experience with a good long shelf life melon. I found this one on the baker creek web site. http://www.rareseeds.com/valencia-winter-melon/
Has anyone ever grown it? Also looking at the Uzbekistan melon....Looks like a good one

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Posted by milehighgirl CO USDA 5B/Sunset 2B (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 25, 14 at 21:30

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

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

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Posted by glenn10 5a New Brunswick (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 25, 14 at 22:16

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.

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Posted by milehighgirl CO USDA 5B/Sunset 2B (My Page) on
Sat, Jul 26, 14 at 18:05

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.

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