Comments on: How to Grow Melons (Honeydew, Cantaloupe and Muskmelon)

on 10/27/2008 Hi I am keen to plant melon and I am living in Dubai and very hot and I am sure it is ideal for melon.
There is weeds around the plants no at the moment. Shall I dig out the weeds and what others things I need to look out for before I could get them to have fruits ? How long is the process ?
Thanks and look for yr kind advice !

on 10/27/2008 Hi I saw yr article and very keen to plant melon. As I am staying in Dubai right now, I believed it is ideal for melon. How do I monitor the progress of the growth ? I have never plant melon before. Now after two weeks , the plants has start to have leaves and there is also weeds around. It is advisable to take out the weeds around the plants ? How long will then start to have fruits ? what others things need to watch for and caution for a successful fruits ?
Thank you and look forward to yr advice !

on 8/19/2008 We have plenty of cantaloupes growing from plants we transplanted from our compost soil, spontaneous growth in garden. About 12 sm to med with some now showing typical "webbing" development on skin. Question: Should we be cutting back on some of the vines that continue to grow and produce flowers to give more to the existing melons?

on 7/25/2008 I am from long island, NY.I have saved seeds from cavaillon melons from France, sow them indoor, and transplanted them in a greenhouse. it's working well, i do have nice melons now, but i have 1 question! do you have to cut the rampant plant, it is expanding so much, and it might weakened the melon not to grow to its full potential.i'd like an answer on that.
e-mail me at scrp61@yahoo.com thank you.

on 7/24/2008 I live in NE Vermont. Its July 25th and My watermelons are crawling, but no flowers yet?? I guess I need to wait longer. I see in this article that it could be 3 months..so maybe in August we will have melons. Ihope

on 7/16/2008 I planted melons first time in my life from the seeds i collected the last year. Before planting the seeds, I kept them for about 24 hours in the manganese crystals/solution.ALL of the seeds came to a plants now and they are healthy.In Ukrainian gardening magazine I red an article that you need to cut off every 5th leaf of the steam that on this place will form a flower. Is this true?

on 6/6/2008 Great article. Well written. I am going to go out and try to plant the seeds from a melon I just ate. Why not?!

on 7/24/2007 I did the same thing. I got some seeds out of a store bought one and they are sprouting left and right also. They have one leaf growing off of them now. It looks like they are coming up good.

on 8/11/2006 We live in NE Montana where the summers are very hot and dry-almost no rain. We decided to attempt a vegetable garden. My 7 year old daughter, in her enthusiasm to grow her favorite foods, took all of the seeds from a store bought cantaloupe, ran outside, made a big mound of dirt and put all of the seeds, slime and all in the mound and watered them. Amazingly, every seed began to grow! Our neighbors are amazed at how well they are doing. We just water them and leave them alone, except for pulling weeds here and there. If your thumb isn't green, I recommend turning the garden over to your optimistic little ones!

on 8/9/2006 I couldn't plant my cantaloupes when I had the seeds (straight out of the cantaloupe) ready, so I put them in a cardboard egg carton and covered them with soil. I left them unwatered until I was ready to go (it was about a week). When the planter was ready, I cut the carton apart and planted the egg parts where I wanted them and watered as usual. I had plants sprouting above the soil in days.

on 8/8/2006 Plant seeds in little containers, such as a cup, then transplant them after they sprout.

on 11/22/2005 After cutting a cantaloupe and cleaning out the seeds, I throw the seeds out in the garden. Not really thinking they would do anything, to my surprise it looks as if everyone of the seeds have sprouted. I thought I had to dry them out first, but they are all coming up. I will thin it out later, but it looks like I am growing cantaloupes this year. :)

on 11/22/2005 To get my cantaloupes to grow, I took the seeds from a cantaloupe that I had purchased. I dried out the seeds, and then put them in a small bowl with a wet paper towel under them. I placed a plastic bag lightly on top (so that they could still get some air), then placed the bowl under a light. The seeds grew like crazy! I planted them, and they are now sprouting up left and right. It worked wonderfully.