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MELON xx FRUIT How to carve and prepare a fresh watermelon compote. Three varieties of giants you can grow in your garden: the Black Diamond watermelon, the New Guinea bean and the Hungarian mammoth squash. Includes planting instructions and information on where to get seeds. How to raise cantaloupes. How to grow watermelons. Grow a vining crop (such as melons) by using a polyethylene tarp and an old rubber tire. Minimizes maintenance, fertilizer, water and weeding. Tip: Growing melons in temporary "melon mounds" on the lawn. How to train cantaloupes up a wire trellis. Melons are cradled in slings. How to hand-pollinate cucumbers, squashes and melons. A guide to identifying insects that attack cucumbers, squash, melons and pumpkins and how to control them. A guide to growing good melons. Describes common insects and diseases and their control. Regional digest gives tips on successful melon-raising in each area. How to grow muskmelons in the short-season of Vermont. Advice on when and how to prune watermelon and cantaloupe vines. The wonderful world of melons. A guide to varieties and how to grow them. Tip tells how to use an old tire as a raised bed that heats up earlier for growing melons. Tips on fertilizing and watering vine crops (squash, cucumber and melon). Growing melons (and other heat-loving crops, such as eggplants and peppers) with plastic mulch. Step-by-step instructions on preparing the soil, laying plastic mulch, transplanting the melons, and covering the bed. Advice on how to successfully grow melons in the Northeast. The way to sweet, tasty muskmelons. Advice on long-season melon varieties, their culture and harvest. Tip recommends using the curlicue tendril closest to where a watermelon stem attaches to the vine as a clue to ripeness. Tip tells how to make a mesh packet for washing, drying and storing melon seeds. Watermelons. How to grow them in the home garden. Hints on growing, harvesting and serving watermelon. How to start melons in peat boxes. Tips from a northern Ohio gardener on a space-saving way to plant watermelons in circles. Tips on how to tell if a melon (cantaloupe or watermelon) is ripe and ready to be picked. How to raise melons in a small backyard garden. How to grow cantaloupes sucessfully. Article covers inside germination of the seeds, planting and how to control the yellow-and-black-striped cucumber beetle. How to trench-grow cucumbers, melons and squash. How to grow watermelons. How to raise melons and pumpkins in dry soils by planting them around buried water-filled earthenware pitchers. How to grow seedless watermelon. Strategies for growing the ultimate in sweet muskmelons. Tip: Use wood ashes to protect squash and melons from the stem borer. How to raise watermelons in almost any garden. Cantaloupe bonanza. Perfect timing and a pair of companion-planting tricks yield one melon for every two square feet. Hotbed muskmelons. This method will produce 3 fruit per plant in a cool climate. Double-pot transplanting system reduces melon transplant shock. Tip for growing watermelons and cantaloupes in red clay soil. How to grow vine-ripened cantaloupe in the Northwest without a greenhouse. Tip: Use hairy fetch as a source of nutrients for raising watermelons. Tips for early and reliable watermelon production. Selecting and raising cantaloupes. Grow melons and cucumbers on raised horizontal racks of wire mesh set in a wooden frame. How to stretch the melon season. Suggestions on varieties, ways to warm the soil and on storage. Seedless varieties of watermelon. Includes tips for successful germination. Tip: A presprouting method for melon, pumpkin, cucumber and squash seeds. A "high-tech" tip involving using a digital scale for determining when a watermelon is ripe. Interplant beans with cucumbers or melons to improve the germination. East meets west. The latest varieties of international cantaloupes and tips on raising them. Seedless watermelons. Selection and growing tips. Tips on checking for ripe watermelons in USDA Zone 5. Saving seeds for the next season. Specific advice on tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, squash, eggplants and cucumbers. Includes advice on hand-pollination to insure the resulting plant duplicates the parent. Tip tells how to fall-seed garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, melons and squash. "Icebox" watermelons, their attributes and culture. Growing melons (cantaloupes/muskmelons, tropicals, charantais and winter melons). Their culture and tips on using mulch and row covers. How to tell when a melon is ready to harvest. Muskmelons, cantaloupes, and more. Selecting and raising an easy-grow melon that's right for your region. Wild about watermelons. A guide to varieties and growing them. Includes eight ways to tell when a melon is ripe. Tips on planting a trap crop to lure insect pests away from melons. A melon sampler. Different varieties described. Advice on how to tell if a melon is ripe. Seven tips to help you succeed when growing melons. Tip on raising cucumbers and melons in straw bales. Tip: Use inverted coffee cans to support melons as they grow. Extraction of growth promoting substances from cantaloupe. How to grow melons in containers. How to train melons, squash, and gourds to grow on trellises. How to sweeten up melons, even in cool climates. Raising magnificent melons requires the right variety and some "high-tech" gardening. Charentais melons. A look at varieties, their culture and harvest. Space-saving watermelons. Advice on choosing and growing bush type varieties. Superstars of the summer garden. Recommendations on varieties of tomatoes, corn and melons. Suggestions on growing tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans, peas, squash and melons on a fence or trellis. | |||||||||
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