Everybody keep your fingers crossed that my white melons reproduce themselves this year !! I am anxious to see if they do !! May have a new variety !!
This is exciting!! Something new, only in your garden, a unique variety. I will keep my fingers crossed Mart, good luck, Jerry P.S. Let us know when i can uncross them. At my age they get stiff easily.
LOL ! Join the crew ! My bones creak every time I move. Just give my melons time to grow and you can uncross them. I will keep everyone informed of their progress. Only two came up last year from cantaloupe seed I had saved from the year before. Have no idea what they are. Nothing like them anywhere I have found. I thought a neighbor kid had lost a softball when I found it. It was that white. Inside was much better than the cantaloupes it came from !! Crisp, not mushy, after a week in fridge. Tasted a bit like cantaloupe but yet,,different. Had nothing it might have crossed with, just watermelons and cantaloupes.
Good luck with the melons. Don't loose the seeds if the breed true :-D I've never seen so few seeds/bulbs in the shops as this year. How am I supposed to get the great sales deals? I'm not stiff jointed. I like crawling around in the dirt like an infant it matches my sense of well being.
Hi mart, Have you ever grown silvervine? It's an heirloom melon, light green, fairly smooth, ribbed similar to a cantelope, has a white interior, crunchy, slightly fragrant, but not incredibly flavorful and oval, about the size of a softball. I have few volunteers popping up in my one garden every year. i just let them grow hoping to get an excellent one. Anyhow I hope yours are much better than these. Put up a picture as soon as you can.
I have never heard of silvervine. This one is white outside Very faint ribbing but it got to almost 4 lbs. I put it in the fridge and ate on it for almost two weeks and it was just as good as the day I cleaned it. No overwhelming smell like cantaloupe and very crisp. If it doesn`t reproduce itself,,,well,,lets just say there will be a LOT of cantaloupes !!
