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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: allaboutliverpool on April 20, 2007, 22:19:33

Title: I had a lovely pair.
Post by: allaboutliverpool on April 20, 2007, 22:19:33
I decided to grow melons for the first time this year and have been hammered on two sides

1. I had two beatuiful melon seedlings, went to work without opening the greenhouse, and discovered that they do not survive in a temperature of 43C.
2 Watched Gardeners World tonight and Monty kept rattling on about heat.

Who has experience? Is it worth sowing again and should I keep them under cover in the Mersey Riviera?

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Title: Re: I had a lovely pair.
Post by: mr plasma on April 21, 2007, 08:56:58
novice here but isn't a melon very similar to a cucumber and my way of thinking is that if you can grow a cue it shouldn't be too difficult to grow a melon
Title: Re: I had a lovely pair.
Post by: manicscousers on April 21, 2007, 17:37:48
we've got 4 seedlings in the poly, grew them at home then put them in the cold g/house and took them to the plot at 6 leaves, they'll stay there 'til may then go in the border, give it a go, aal, they're supposed to grow in frames and they taste brill  :)
Title: Re: I had a lovely pair.
Post by: cleo on April 21, 2007, 17:42:33
Who has experience? Is it worth sowing again and should I keep them under cover in the Mersey Riviera?

Yes and yes