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Melon Plants Just Starting Off ...Plant Inside or Out

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You can always put the compost on your veg patch when they don’t come to anything. Or just spread on the borders. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Thanks Lyn.

    I live in fear and desperation, 
    should I die before I die to live again.

    Whose quote is this Lyn.


    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Asha Quinn
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I grew galia and watermelons in our polytunnel this summer in a bed, not pots, using small plants  bought in May.  They climbed up to about 4 metres before I stopped them.   Temps in there got up to the high 40s in July when we had the serious heat and easily over 30 in August.  We kept it well ventilated and watered and fruit set was fine.  6 melons from the galia and 4 from the water which was later.   Lovely to have but not as tasty as the locally grown Charentais melons which are a kind of canteloupe.

    Unless your conservatory is guaranteed frost free and won't get lower than about 10C I'd say you're on a hiding to nothing planting out these things now.   I suspect also that light levels will be too low even if you can keep them warm enough.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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