French Cantaloupe

[Shishak]

Looking for french cantaloupe seeds that can be planted now, here in SE Texas. Anyone know of such things. Very hot here now. Thanks..

[052039]

SHIS- French charentais cantaloupe is the great FRENCH melon by which all others are judged. you can find them pretty much anywhere. BAKER CREEK has them [see catalog pg. 28 #ML 114]

052039 - BILL :D :)

[LarryS]

Looking for french cantaloupe seeds that can be planted now, here in SE Texas. Anyone know of such things. Very hot here now. Thanks..

Yes, Jere has them. I planted a few weeks ago here in NE Texas. Mine
are coming along well.

Last year, I had only 1-2 plants, but the seeds came up in portions of my
garden where other melons failed.

We had a horrible melon year, but I got a few Charentais melons to eat.

This year, I planted a whole row of them.

They are very aromatic and sweet, with smooth tender flesh. Truly delicious.

A far cry from these crunchy nasty things that the grocery stores now import from Guatemala.

I hope you do well with yours.

[gardenfish]

glad to hear about the charentais melons. mine are now about golfball size. cant wait to taste them. i also have prescott fond blancs. they are about softball size now. my first year for both. i am growing them on a north-south fence with japicona corn on the west side to protect from the 100+ degree sun in the afternoon.
rick

[cloacina]

Say, gardenfish, could you post pics, especially of the Prescott? I'm trying both these varieties, and some others besides, and lost the markers on my Prescotts and something else. I'm not sure which plants are which right now.
But the charentais are clearly marked. Really looking forward to these.
Incidentally, all the melons are going great guns, as we've had very warm weather but weekly rains. What a blast, gardening...

[windsng225]

I just planted my watermelon seeds and cantilope yesterday. Waiting for them to germinate then I will transplant them into the garden, I'm trying them on trellisis. I have saved all my onion plastic bags for support and hope that works. Good luck to all.
joyce

[cloacina]

You know, shishak, I grew ha'ogen (from Seeds of Change) last year, and although, as Larry says, it was a horrible year, these things produced some very nice fruit. Aromatic and flavorful, as well as attractive, they're bred to deal with a lot of heat and not a lot of water.

[Snaki]

Planting charentais for the first time this year. What sort of yield have you guys experienced in the past? How much does the plant sprawl? (Space is at a premium this year in the garden!) What sort of planting technique did you employ. Right now I have one seedling just starting to poke through, should I add a few more seeds so that I can have 3 plants trailing off of the same mound or will the yield from one plant be enough? There are only 2 of us so it isn't like we are feeding an army.:)
Thanks in advance