For weeks, I’ve been waiting for a female flower to open on the melon plants. Perhaps they did but I simply missed them… However, whilst doing the morning watering just now, at last I saw a healthy looking ovary with an open flower!
I quickly found a paintbrush to transfer some pollen from a few male flowers to the budding melon – I can’t rely on an insect helping me because of the plants being indoors – and now it’s back to nature to do it’s stuff.
Melon is my daughter’s favourite food, so I’m particularly keen for this to be a success. We often have discussions about how I grow what I like…. although I think she does eat most of our garden produce. Well, bits of!
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What variety is the melon? I’m growing ‘five desserts’ in the polytunnel. Found two fruits so far.
That’s great 😊. My variety is Malaga F1 – not grown melons before, so it will be interesting to see if I can get any fruit.
I’m just really impressed that you’re growing melons! It’s my eldest daughter’s favourite fruit too 🙂
Well, I’m not sure we will get fruit but it’s worth a try 😊
I have a funny melon story. They look similar to pumpkins when immature. We planted a cantaloupe but it didn’t appear to come up. When I harvested our meager pumpkin crop that year, I thought I had a green pumpkin. Boy was I wrong. 🙂 Best of luck with your crop.
How did you discover it was a cantaloupe – when carving or eating soup, for example?
When I cut it open. Oh my gosh I could have died laughing.
I can imagine!