Rockmelon - Heirloom Mix seeds

ROCKMELON Heirloom Mix - 15 SeedsThis Heirloom Rockmelon Mix offers a variety of rockmelons, which includes Hale's Best Jumbo, Indian Cream Cobra, Zatta, Piel De Sapo, Honeydew, Eden's Gem and Collective Farmwoman.

The seeds of all these rockmelons have been RANDOMLY MIXED in ONE SINGLE packet.

You will grow a kaleidoscope of rockmelons never seen in supermarkets - various shapes, sizes, colours and sweet taste is on the cards when you start growing these beauties - the surprise factor will end once the fruit will be formed!

Care & Growing Info

Rockmelons are warm-season annual vines and require a long, hot growing season. Start them early, if you can. In temperate areas sow October - November, after all danger of frost; subtropical areas sow September - November; in tropical areas sow April - July, during the dry season. Sow directly where it is to grow 10 - 20mm deep, or start early in individual seedling pots, in cool areas bottom heat will be required. Seed germinates best at a soil temperature of 23 - 35o C. Seed will germinate in 4 - 10 days. Soil should be fertile, well-drained, with a pH 6 - 6.5.

Space rows 1.5 m apart with 1m between plants on raised mounds. Pinch out the growing tip to encourage branching; when the fruit forms pinch back the vine to 2 leaves beyond the fruit.

Melons can be grown vertically where space is limited but support the fruit with onion bags. Growing vertically also reduces the risk of fungal problems. Slide a flat piece of wood underneath ripening fruit on the ground to avoid rotting from contact with wet soil. Harvest when the melon slips easily from the stem.

Harvest in 10-16 weeks. Compatible with (can grow beside) Sweetcorn, Sunflowers. And avoid growing close to Potatoes