I can't seem to grow a sweet melon. Help?

ac21686 · August 17, 2021

Another year, another failed melon crop! Same story every time. They feel right, look right, even smell right most of the time. Beautiful orange flesh and then...nothing. No sweetness at all. I have harvested at full slip, sometimes a few days before. Doesn't matter! The soil is on the sandier side (which seems like a good thing for melons), but admittedly I've not gotten a nutrients breakdown or clay/loam/sand/etc. composition. The weather this year was awful for melons, but even in a hot dry summer like last year's, I don't recall them tasting any better. We straddle the line between 6A and 5B in Western CT. I'm determined to have one decent crop

What melons has anyone grown roughly in this same geographic region/zone and managed to produce a really sweet one?

August 17, 2021	#1
ac21686 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: CT Posts: 68	I can't seem to grow a sweet melon. Help? Another year, another failed melon crop! Same story every time. They feel right, look right, even smell right most of the time. Beautiful orange flesh and then...nothing. No sweetness at all. I have harvested at full slip, sometimes a few days before. Doesn't matter! The soil is on the sandier side (which seems like a good thing for melons), but admittedly I've not gotten a nutrients breakdown or clay/loam/sand/etc. composition. The weather this year was awful for melons, but even in a hot dry summer like last year's, I don't recall them tasting any better. We straddle the line between 6A and 5B in Western CT. I'm determined to have one decent crop What melons has anyone grown roughly in this same geographic region/zone and managed to produce a really sweet one? Last edited by ac21686; August 17, 2021 at 06:54 PM.