Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Thank you Linn--wish I'd thought to tie mine so they didn't go to the bottom, but I think I might be able to tie off the toes of some of them still.  I now have 14 melon babies on 3 vines (actually I think only 1 is a honeydo, so the other 13 are on 2 cantaloupe vines--amazing to me).  This is very helpful.

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>To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:22 AM
>Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: New member
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>I haven't tried trellising with honey dew, but I do with my cantaloupe. The varieties I've grown show in increase in veining as they ripen, however, I mostly go by stem slip to determine if they are ripe. I've never had great luck with figuring how ripe honey dew are. I just guess and take my chances.
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>My nylons are tied so the melon doesn't fall to the bottom of the toe. That way I still can see a bit of the melon as it grows.
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>Love, Linn B (aka Smart Red) Gardening in zone 4b-5a, newly 5b? -- anyway, I'm still in the same spot in south-est, central-est Wisconsin
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>--- In Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com, Rinda Frye <frinda@...> wrote: I'm growing cantaloupe and honeydew and I'm trellising them
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