cantaloupe melon

When you say plant out do you mean greenhouse ? I think we will need better summers than we have been getting for outdoor melons.

Thanks for replys what size pots would they need in a greenhouse they are quite strong seedings. We didn't realise that all the seeds would sprout so we have about a dozen or so plants at least (oh well plenty fruit cocktails) 

Well i like to think im quite good at growing mellons

Apparently every one on my site struggles with theirs but i usually get a really good crop of around 3-4 mellons per plant (thats pretty good going for our climate)
I grow Ogen, Supersweet F1 and Bastion.

I plant 2 plants per 12" pot on the greenhouse stageing in a growbag tray and only water from the bottom.

I grow them up a cane and onto a trellis that runs up the roof of the green house and remove all but 3- 4 of the developing mellons, i also hand polinate.
I feed them with either comfrey tea or rhubarb tea once a week and water twice a week using the feed as one of the waterings.

And i always get really good clean juicy fruits.
I like to grow the 3 different varieties because they all mature at different times, the supersweet F1 seem to mature together so i end up giving a couple away to some lucky people.  
But they do store for a week or so in the fridge.

I never put mine into the green house before 1st June, it's not worth the risk.

Andy

My rhubarb plants are next to my shed water butts, so when i harvest the rhubarb i cut the leaves off an put them into the water but.
I used to only use it on my blueberrys but about 3 years ago i started using it in the green house as well and it seems to do just as good as the comfrey tea.

The rhubarb plant has deep large roots, so my thinking was that it would be pulling lots of neutrients and trace elements up from deep down, most of this would be stored in the leaves so i just thought i would give it a go. 

I know it does keep the likes of cabbage whites off brassicas but it's certainly not a pesticide.
I doesnt kill or even harm the insects, i think it's more the smell that puts them off.

All i know is that when i feed it to my plants it does just as well as the comfrey does.
I know this because i did half of my toms with comfrey and the other half with rhubarb, both were as good as each other in cropping.
So either neither were anygood or they both were!!!!!

Ohh no, i feel guilty now.
I feel as if i have decieved my toms