[julietmaria]

I read somewhere that you cannot grow melon and cucumber together as they will cross polinate and both will end up not tasting very nice.  Is this true?  I have a female only cucumber - last year I did not and it was a disaster, lots of cucumbers all tasting bitter    

They will both be grown in my small greenhouse.
Thanks in advance 

[DD.]

If two plants cross pollinate, it will affect the seeds, not the flesh.  Greenhouse cucumbers should not generally be pollinated.

If cross pollination took place, I would say that it would not affect the melon, as you are not eating the seeds, but the cucumber could suffer.

[Kristen]

I grown both in the same greenhouse. The end of the "Melon row" is right next to the "Cucumber row" and I've never had a problem with them.

Not sure that answers you question, as such, though.

[andy135]

I grown both in the same greenhouse. The end of the "Melon row" is right next to the "Cucumber row" and I've never had a problem with them.

Not sure that answers you question, as such, though.

Kristen, may I ask which varieties you grow?

[Kristen]

I've grown all sorts of Melons over the years - suckered (as I see it!) by the marketing Blurb Promise. I now think that Sweetheart is the best melon for me - in the sense that some years I have not had enough time to hand-pollinate, pinch-out and train, but always Sweetheart has carried some fruit where others have had none under such abuse.

For Cucumbers I just grow an all-female F1. At the moment its F1 Bella (which I've grown for a few years now), but only because that's the seed packet that the garden centre stocks