Muggles wrote:
....
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird

On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real life!

--
Maggie

On 8/9/2017 10:50 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real life!

My wife takes care of the small lawn and the small raised bed gardens
and also, her churches "Poor" garden, which is much more prolific then
our garden. She harvested a bushel of Longhorn okra yesterday and we had
fried okra for dinner, the rest went to the Poor Pantry. Seems the folks
that go there for food like okra too.

The church garden has been operating over thirty years now and all the
refuse going back into the soil makes it really rich soil. The church
has a state of the art composter and the whole place gets mowed every
week plus all the detritus from the poor pantry.

We get three newspapers a week and they get shredded after reading and
go into our composter along with the kitchen cleanings so we're slowly
turning our raised beds into fertile soil. Funny thing, one cantaloupe
was growing in a corner of the bed, it had two flat sides and one round
side but was still edible. I'm thinking of making a square box for
another fruit to grow in. The great grands would get a kick out of a
square cantaloupe. G

George

On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 7:44:10 AM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/9/2017 10:50 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real life!

My wife takes care of the small lawn and the small raised bed gardens
and also, her churches "Poor" garden, which is much more prolific then
our garden. She harvested a bushel of Longhorn okra yesterday and we had
fried okra for dinner, the rest went to the Poor Pantry. Seems the folks
that go there for food like okra too.

The church garden has been operating over thirty years now and all the
refuse going back into the soil makes it really rich soil. The church
has a state of the art composter and the whole place gets mowed every
week plus all the detritus from the poor pantry.

We get three newspapers a week and they get shredded after reading and
go into our composter along with the kitchen cleanings so we're slowly
turning our raised beds into fertile soil. Funny thing, one cantaloupe
was growing in a corner of the bed, it had two flat sides and one round
side but was still edible. I'm thinking of making a square box for
another fruit to grow in. The great grands would get a kick out of a
square cantaloupe. G

George

I built a box to fit around one of my Red October pumpkins in hopes of getting a cubic pumpkin.

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

I'll post the results here in a couple of months. I'd like to build a dodecahedron box but that's a project for the coming winter.

Paul

On 8/10/2017 9:09 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 7:44:10 AM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/9/2017 10:50 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real life!

My wife takes care of the small lawn and the small raised bed gardens
and also, her churches "Poor" garden, which is much more prolific then
our garden. She harvested a bushel of Longhorn okra yesterday and we had
fried okra for dinner, the rest went to the Poor Pantry. Seems the folks
that go there for food like okra too.

The church garden has been operating over thirty years now and all the
refuse going back into the soil makes it really rich soil. The church
has a state of the art composter and the whole place gets mowed every
week plus all the detritus from the poor pantry.

We get three newspapers a week and they get shredded after reading and
go into our composter along with the kitchen cleanings so we're slowly
turning our raised beds into fertile soil. Funny thing, one cantaloupe
was growing in a corner of the bed, it had two flat sides and one round
side but was still edible. I'm thinking of making a square box for
another fruit to grow in. The great grands would get a kick out of a
square cantaloupe. G

George

I built a box to fit around one of my Red October pumpkins in hopes of getting a cubic pumpkin.

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

I'll post the results here in a couple of months. I'd like to build a dodecahedron box but that's a project for the coming winter.

Paul

I had a friend, now deceased, who put a six inch wide plastic pipe over
a watermelon and let it grow in the pipe. Was a very strange melon but
it was tasty and he cut it in rounds so it was also funny.

I suspect that many "strange" gardeners have done those things just for
the helluva it.

George

On 8/10/2017 10:30 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/10/2017 9:09 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 7:44:10 AM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/9/2017 10:50 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real
life!

My wife takes care of the small lawn and the small raised bed gardens
and also, her churches "Poor" garden, which is much more prolific then
our garden. She harvested a bushel of Longhorn okra yesterday and we had
fried okra for dinner, the rest went to the Poor Pantry. Seems the folks
that go there for food like okra too.

The church garden has been operating over thirty years now and all the
refuse going back into the soil makes it really rich soil. The church
has a state of the art composter and the whole place gets mowed every
week plus all the detritus from the poor pantry.

We get three newspapers a week and they get shredded after reading and
go into our composter along with the kitchen cleanings so we're slowly
turning our raised beds into fertile soil. Funny thing, one cantaloupe
was growing in a corner of the bed, it had two flat sides and one round
side but was still edible. I'm thinking of making a square box for
another fruit to grow in. The great grands would get a kick out of a
square cantaloupe. G

George

I built a box to fit around one of my Red October pumpkins in hopes of
getting a cubic pumpkin.

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0


I'll post the results here in a couple of months. I'd like to build a
dodecahedron box but that's a project for the coming winter.

Paul

I had a friend, now deceased, who put a six inch wide plastic pipe over
a watermelon and let it grow in the pipe. Was a very strange melon but
it was tasty and he cut it in rounds so it was also funny.

I suspect that many "strange" gardeners have done those things just for
the helluva it.

George

We all know a block head or two.

On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 10:30:42 AM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/10/2017 9:09 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 7:44:10 AM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/9/2017 10:50 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real life!

My wife takes care of the small lawn and the small raised bed gardens
and also, her churches "Poor" garden, which is much more prolific then
our garden. She harvested a bushel of Longhorn okra yesterday and we had
fried okra for dinner, the rest went to the Poor Pantry. Seems the folks
that go there for food like okra too.

The church garden has been operating over thirty years now and all the
refuse going back into the soil makes it really rich soil. The church
has a state of the art composter and the whole place gets mowed every
week plus all the detritus from the poor pantry.

We get three newspapers a week and they get shredded after reading and
go into our composter along with the kitchen cleanings so we're slowly
turning our raised beds into fertile soil. Funny thing, one cantaloupe
was growing in a corner of the bed, it had two flat sides and one round
side but was still edible. I'm thinking of making a square box for
another fruit to grow in. The great grands would get a kick out of a
square cantaloupe. G

George

I built a box to fit around one of my Red October pumpkins in hopes of getting a cubic pumpkin.

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

I'll post the results here in a couple of months. I'd like to build a dodecahedron box but that's a project for the coming winter.

Paul

I had a friend, now deceased, who put a six inch wide plastic pipe over
a watermelon and let it grow in the pipe. Was a very strange melon but
it was tasty and he cut it in rounds so it was also funny.

I suspect that many "strange" gardeners have done those things just for
the helluva it.

George

I may try that next year. How did he get the watermelon out of the pipe? Did it just slide out?

Paul

On 8/12/2017 7:32 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 10:30:42 AM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/10/2017 9:09 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 7:44:10 AM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/9/2017 10:50 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real life!

My wife takes care of the small lawn and the small raised bed gardens
and also, her churches "Poor" garden, which is much more prolific then
our garden. She harvested a bushel of Longhorn okra yesterday and we had
fried okra for dinner, the rest went to the Poor Pantry. Seems the folks
that go there for food like okra too.

The church garden has been operating over thirty years now and all the
refuse going back into the soil makes it really rich soil. The church
has a state of the art composter and the whole place gets mowed every
week plus all the detritus from the poor pantry.

We get three newspapers a week and they get shredded after reading and
go into our composter along with the kitchen cleanings so we're slowly
turning our raised beds into fertile soil. Funny thing, one cantaloupe
was growing in a corner of the bed, it had two flat sides and one round
side but was still edible. I'm thinking of making a square box for
another fruit to grow in. The great grands would get a kick out of a
square cantaloupe. G

George

I built a box to fit around one of my Red October pumpkins in hopes of getting a cubic pumpkin.

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

I'll post the results here in a couple of months. I'd like to build a dodecahedron box but that's a project for the coming winter.

Paul

I had a friend, now deceased, who put a six inch wide plastic pipe over
a watermelon and let it grow in the pipe. Was a very strange melon but
it was tasty and he cut it in rounds so it was also funny.

I suspect that many "strange" gardeners have done those things just for
the helluva it.

George

I may try that next year. How did he get the watermelon out of the pipe? Did it just slide out?

Paul

He cut the pipe down the length on two sides and popped it out. I didn't
see the part where he got it out but I did see the melon and actually
ate some of it. I don't think he did it again though. He was a quirky
kind of guy who, unfortunately, died sooner than he should have. I still
have good memories of some of the things he tried with his vegetable
garden.

George

On 8/10/2017 6:44 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/9/2017 10:50 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/9/2017 4:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL

are you in the south?

i'm thinking that if you start the plants
indoors early enough you can get a better
start on them and perhaps the stems can
be more resistant to the bugs then...

might be worth a try.


songbird


Come January or February I get the bug to start plants, and we have a
small greenhouse, too, but it's not finished, yet. I have lots of
intentions of doing all sorts of things, but then way-layed by real life!

My wife takes care of the small lawn and the small raised bed gardens
and also, her churches "Poor" garden, which is much more prolific then
our garden. She harvested a bushel of Longhorn okra yesterday and we had
fried okra for dinner, the rest went to the Poor Pantry. Seems the folks
that go there for food like okra too.

The church garden has been operating over thirty years now and all the
refuse going back into the soil makes it really rich soil. The church
has a state of the art composter and the whole place gets mowed every
week plus all the detritus from the poor pantry.

We get three newspapers a week and they get shredded after reading and
go into our composter along with the kitchen cleanings so we're slowly
turning our raised beds into fertile soil. Funny thing, one cantaloupe
was growing in a corner of the bed, it had two flat sides and one round
side but was still edible. I'm thinking of making a square box for
another fruit to grow in. The great grands would get a kick out of a
square cantaloupe. G

George

LOL sounds like fun!

--
Maggie