Historical background information for varieties handed down from bygone days.
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May 8, 2008 | #16 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 21
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May 19, 2008 | #17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Little Mountain SC
Posts: 105
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Gary, I do plan to offer the scaly bark it may be a couple of years though. I have three sources of seed and three seed types. I have grown two of the three and need to grow the third in isolation to increase my seed inventory then do a side by side growout for comparison. The seed I have is a large white seeded variety( from you), a small black seeded variety ( Dr. Bradshaw at Clemson University)and a large black seeded variety ( Glenn Drowns). Interesting to have three seed types of the same melon and they all seem to be the same. I would like to know which is the true Scaly bark if it is possible.But old catlogs did'nt always mention seed color only the common name. I also have a new yellow meated watermelon that I have been searching for for many years. My grandad grew a dark green rind 25-35# round yellow fleshed melon. Those seed where lost before I was born. I only now of it by description from stories by my aunts and uncles and mom of the melon and how good it was he also grew the stone mountain. I have been looking for a source and have grown several yellows from locals around Northern Ala.but none where the dark green rind. I did recieve seed from a lady at this years Southern legacy seed swap in Georgia of a white seeded yellow meat watermelon that has a dark green rind and produces 25-35# oval melons.She was my age and this melon was grown by her Grandfather in NW Ga. this is not far from north central ALA where my mom grew up so I was excited to get the seed. Those seed alone would have made the trip to Athens a success. I can only grow three varieties of melons a year and only one large growout,with out hand pollination. I plant a period garden at a Historic plantation that I use to grow out some varieties for trail and isolation and I have the yellow meated watermelon planted there. I plant a spring and a fall crop at my place.I have 200ft of row of the stone mountain growing for more seed right now and I will do a july planted fall crop of the third scaly bark. I am growing a new muskmelon for Bakers creek called million dollar melon it has an intersting story and will be in the 2009 catolog.Rodger
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July 22, 2008 | #18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Oregon
Posts: 361
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All this melon talk is making me hungry. Wish we could grow them easily here. I have Jenny Lind and Noir Des Carmes, but they are both so tiny, and the night temps have been in the 50s. I will try putting WOWs around them to see if that helps. Oh well, I'm enjoying the reading.
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