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

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When the stem starts to separate from the vine.

Hi Sharon, they look delicious!!! Yum.

I have huge cantaloupe vines full of lots of blooms how long does it take once you have the blooms to get the fruit, this is my first attempt at growing melons.

My cantaloupe are turning a nice ivory color just not sure when to pick them watermelon are all most ready. They are about 7 1/2 inches across. grandchildren are all excited frist time growing them.

growing cantaloupe for 1st time, when do we know when they are ripe and ready to pick.

Our cantaloupes vines have started going up the fence. Is it possible for those vines to still produce fruit or should we direct them elsewhere?

Mother's Day my son planted a Red Japanese Maple for me. There wasn't enough dirt because I planted in a hole where I had dug up something else. So I took some dirt out of my compost. A few weeks later I had some tomato plants coming up there. I also had something else. It was either cucumbers or Zucchini. It got yellow blooms on it like my cucumbers. Now I just noticed that there is some thing under one of the blooms its round and fuzzy looking. Could this be cantaloupe? I have never grown melons so have no clue.

Thanks, I will try that! Hope you had a great 4th!

slugs. leave a tuna can full of beer nearby. They drink it and drown.

My cantaloupes are being attacked by something. I haven't seen the culprit, but it makes a clean cut straight across the stems and eats what is cut off. I have just started searching the possible causes.

sounds like maybe a zucchini or squash, could you post a picture?

I have something growing in my garden and don't know what it is. It has big green leaves and and yellow flower that opens in the morning and closes later in the day. It does not grow like a vine plant but upright I'd like some opinions on what it may be.

We planted tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers and bell peppers, as well as two banana plants (will grow bananas within a year! :)

hey, thanks, I will use that! we just planted some a week ago, plus some tomatoes and other stuff

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I'm growin Cantaloupe for the first time......

but how to I eat them in after on summer harvesting?