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Posted by jampolk MarrickvilleNSW (My Page) on Wed, Oct 19, 05 at 2:32
Last year I grew rockmelon but they were tasteless, almost salty. VERY disappointing!!
So this year I am planting them in full sun. However due to the teensy inner city backyard i was thinking of growing them up a trellis (as I have started to do with golden nugget pumpkins).
Will this work?
I figure it's worth giving a go |
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RE: Rockmelon
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I've sown a few this year:
Rockmelons: Minnesota Midget, Nutmeg and Southern Sweet.
Watermelons: Sugar Baby, Blacktail Mountain, Golden Midget, Moon and Stars. (I'm not holding my breath here!)
A number of years ago when I had a community garden I grew rockmelons and actually had 22 fruits from a few plants!!! Left them for another day to mature and in the meantime some tosser broke in and threw them all up against the cyclone fence. Broke my heart. |
RE: Rockmelon
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| More than a tosser lomatia! Jampolk, melons can be grown on a trellis, but big ones will need some sort of flexible support - those netting bags that oranges come in might do the trick. Or you could just sow little ones, like the first two lomatia mentioned above. Don't know about Southern Sweet in terms of size. |
RE: Rockmelon
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| I grow them along the back fence and then when the fruit is about large fist size I put them in stocking ends and staple gun them to the fence. It is of course a paling fence. They fully ripen in the sun, delicious. |
RE: Rockmelon
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It can be done. I did it last year in Glebe, not far from Maccaville.
Mine accidentally grew up the clothes line against the wall. worked a bewdy. They got got at by ants but they grew fine, they're strong little buggers. |
RE: Rockmelon
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- Posted by jampolk MarrickvilleNSW (My Page) on
Sat, Oct 22, 05 at 4:17
well that's what i'll be doing then... growing them up a trellis
Need to figure out a better stronger trellis system than that green plastic stuff..
Any ideas anyone? |
RE: Rockmelon
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| the steel reinforcing that goes in concrete is about as good as it gets. |
RE: Rockmelon
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| Melons work well when grown vertically, but Golden Nugget pumpkin is a bush, so you might struggle to get them off the ground :) MAnuel. |
RE: Rockmelon
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| hi. I've got a huge rock melon plant with lots of flowers and some have buds underneath them but they just die. Does anybody know why and how could I make them produce fruit? |
RE: Rockmelon
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You will have to hand pollinate if the bees are not doing their job.
Its best to grow some flowering herbs nearby to bring the bees something like marjoram, lavender, basil or thyme.. |
RE: Rockmelon
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| The only problem is that im in a apartment. So i dont get bees. Could someone tell me how to hand pollinate? It would be very useful. |
RE: Rockmelon
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| You could always grow some herbs in pots along side your Rockmelon you never know some bees may come a visiting You take the male flower long stalk and brush the pollen on to the female flower shorter and round at the base. Have a look at the link below it will explain it better. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Hand Pollinating members of the cucurbit family.
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