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As the title 2 of my melons have just split .is there something I've done wrong.
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When you have a hammer in your hand everything around you starts looking like a nail. -
I think it may be to do with watering, same as with split tomatoes. If the fruit gets too much water in one go, the flesh splits because it is unable to deal with it.LOVE growing food to eat in my little town back garden. Winter update: currently growing overwintering onions, carrots, lettuce, chard, salad leaves, kale, cabbage, radish, beetroot, garlic, broccoli raab, some herbs. -
It's been sat in a tray so would only take water when it needed it or is that the trouble I've given it the opportunity to take too much.When you have a hammer in your hand everything around you starts looking like a nail.Comment
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Could also be that the melon thinks it's time to split and spread its seeds.
I have some honeydews this year for the first time and to be honest I have no idea when they're ripe, so I'm expecting the same to happen with at least some of them.
Edited to add (off topic): love your motto. A kid who visited here obviously suffers from this syndrome: he took his weapon to a large sheet of glass that just happened to be our table top, one we'd moved to allow us to bring in a bigger table that his family could fit around as well.
Last edited by Snoop Puss; 18-08-2016, 04:30 PM.Comment
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you will be able to smell the melons when they are fully ripe, a lovely sweet aroma, especially in a greenhouse, when you open the door.. failing that, I just sniff the base, if you can smell it, it's ripe, or, press your thumb on the base, if it gives, it is ripe, next job is to stop drooling.......Comment
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How big are everyone else's melons? (Phrasing!) Mine are still tiny.Comment
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[QUOTE=Funny onion;1477133]How big are everyone else's melons? (Phrasing!) Mine are still tiny.[/QUOTE
mine are struggling to stay alive, one plant, nearest the door, died after what seemed weeks of cold dark summer days, just 2-3 left now for third year running, we used to get between 12-15 a year before summer weather was abolished, our last "good" summer was in 2006, that says it all..Comment
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Having never grown them I'm Quite pleased with mine!
Had a couple of Minnesota midget as well, lovely sweet flavour straight from the ,plant!<*}}}>< Jonathan ><{{{*>Comment
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