North Texas Vegetable Gardeners Forum
General => Show Us Your Garden => Topic started by: Phil from Krum on July 31, 2011, 02:32:37 PM
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Here's a pic of a 6 pound 12 ounce Sugar Queen cantaloupe picked up 2 days ago. I grow them on trellises and wait for them to drop rather than "picking" them.
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I like growing cantaloupe on trellises too. Here is what happens when they grow too close to the ground!
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Mine are on the ground. Just put an extra bed of hay under them when I see them growing. Haven't weighed any of them. Mine haven't been quite as sweet as I was hoping for. Are yours, Phil?
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The Sugar Queen aren't, probable bred for size rather than flavor. The Sugar Baby are very sweet but about half the size or a bit less. We are having to water every other day to keep the plants alive and that may be effecting the taste too.
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That's what I've been doing...every other day watering for the cantaloupe. Do you happen to know if this plant that I put in this past spring will continue to produce into the fall? I just have two fruit left on the vine, but there are still flowers and new growth is still developing.
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If it's still setting flowers and small fruit it's still good. In the past mine have continued to produce until a hard frost. This heat is hard on the bees too. You might try setting a shallow plate filled with stones and water in your garden. The stones give the bees a place to land to drink so they should stick up above the water.