MELON-ROCKMELON-PLANTERS JUMBO

This quite vigorously growing rockmelon has fruit with large oval shaped fruit with a sweet orange flesh of an excellent sweet taste. It is an early maturing vine that is resistant to diseases and rot. The fruit can grow up to 18 cm in diameter. It does well in both dry and in wet areas. This quite vigorously growing rockmelon has fruit with large oval shaped fruit with a sweet orange flesh of an excellent sweet taste. It is an early maturing vine that is resistant to diseases and rot. The fruit can grow up to 18 cm in diameter. It does well in both dry and in wet areas. They have a moderate sized seed cavity and good sugar content. The fruit take 100-110 days to ripen. Melon seed should be sown 1.0-2.0cm deep directly into the garden in richly composted soil. Space the plants 50cm apart in rows 1.2-1.5m apart. Sow three weeks after the last frost has finished in Cold and Temperate areas and from September to February in Tropical and Subtropical areas. Melons do very well when a nitrogen fixing plant, such as clover or pea plants are grown with them. Despite a mistaken believe otherwise, melons do not ripen once picked so leave them mature on the vine until the stem comes away from the fruit with ease.WEIGHT OF SEED IN PACKET 1.0 g APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF SEEDS IN PACKET 30