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Category: bring on the sun. | Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:49 am

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I have tried for 10 yrs. to grow a melon. This year will be different.


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eileen wrote on Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:58 am:

I take that you mean you've given up then Woody. What will you plant instead of watermelons?

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woody wrote on Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:10 am:

I try every year. I moved to a new house four years ago and our soil is all clay. I'm slowly turning the back yard into a garden. The neighbors thought I was nuts at first, but now they are growing a few things in the summer. They ask me questions and seem real interested, so it's kind of cool. I might try sugar baby melons this year also.

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Droopy wrote on Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:25 am:

This year you will grow a melon! Keep infecting your neighbours, they will get healthier because of you.

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Netty wrote on Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:43 pm:

Welcome Woody. I have never had much luck growing Melons either. Last year I finally got one about 4" across. THIS will be the year for me too!

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devonpete wrote on Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:26 pm:

Don't talk to me about clay! I left all that behind with my last home - enough of it to pot a thousand dinner services. Now my soil is light and fluffy - like you see on gardening programmes. But never tried melons.

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glendann wrote on Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:14 am:

I can grow good big melons in my sandy loam.I grew small sugar babies instead.I grew one year hugh melons in my front yard.
This is one of the melons I raised in sand and mushroom compost


[IMG]http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h178/glendann/Image086.jpg[/IMG]

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glendann wrote on Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:15 am:

I hope it will let you see it.

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woody wrote on Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:46 am:

glendann that is a great looking melon. I'm jelous. I also have blackberries and strawberries that I fool with.Had lots of stawberries last summer.Was only second year for blackberries. Hopefully I will have some this year(once the birds and critters get their share.

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