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Thanks for sharing your interesting reading, and the corresponding history. My husband and I had the good fortune to be able to visit Baker Creek Farm just over a year ago, and found it immensely satisfying. I do love good melons, and perhaps we, too, will try growing some this season.

Linda Gasparini
Sacred Horse Ranch
Inverness, FL

--- On Sun, 4/3/11, HerrickK <hckimball@bci.net> wrote:

> From: HerrickK <hckimball@bci.net>
> Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Growing Melons in 1873 New Hampshire
> To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 8:52 AM
> I am an avid gardener and I collect
> old farm almanacs (from before 1900). I enjoy reading
> excerpts about gardening from the old timers. Sometimes it's
> just entertaining. Sometimes you can learn something. And
> sometimes you are confronted with a mystery.
>
> All three of those things were the case in the 1873 edition
> of Dudley Leavitt's farm almanac. Leavitt was from New
> Hampshire. In the "Farmer's Calendar" excerpt for August of
> that year, the editor tells the story of his son, "little
> Jack," growing melons just like his grandfather taught him,
> and he ended up with some real nice "nutmegs."
>
> I had never heard melons called nutmegs before . What was
> that all about? Well, the solution to the mystery came to me
> as I was looking through the Baker Creek seed catalog a
> couple months ago. And I've written about it (along with
> grandpa's advice) at my blog, Agrarian Nation. I invite you
> to check it out at:
>
> http://agrariannation.blogspot.com/
>
> You might want to grow your own Nutmegs this year, just
> like little Jack did back in 1873. That's what I'm doing
> this year!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Herrick Kimball
> Moravia, NY
>
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