I think in Victory Gardens, the book to the PBS show, the guy suggested to put the seed trays on top of the fridge. The appliance creates a lot of warmth, and light is initially not needed to germinate seeds.Yummy...I tried doing honeydew seeds this year but the room was to cold I started in. Can you say warming seedling mat at for me?I love honeydew.
that is a lovely looking melon!
I would check it every day, it should be really close.
I tried starting seeds inside also but the problem I had is transitioning them outside, I'm in AZ so we go from winter to 90° instead of a nice spring transition and I thought I had a good enough window for them to adjust when a heat wave came through and burned everything one afternoon so I just planted directly in the ground that weekend. They had a slow start cause we still had 50-60° nights and then they just took off everywhere.Yummy...I tried doing honeydew seeds this year but the room was to cold I started in. Can you say warming seedling mat at for me?
covers to warm the soil, and shadecloth to protect from the sun.
Woah..AZ is HOT. Must be hard to grow anything other than cactus.
I'm actually surprised that I've been able to grow a lot here despite the heat. I put up shade cloth over part of my garden and will be expanding it out to cover all of it but the tops of corn were the only thing to get sunburned. I can't grow anything in pots because even in shade the heat will dry it out in no time but I've dug out 2 feet deep to loosen the dirt cause it was hard clay and the top foot I mixed half and half with native clay and garden soil and it soaks up water like a sponge now and holds it now thanks to the clay. Az is the top producer of melons in the country so those grow like crazy, I've got various squash which I'm losing one by one to some type of black beetle. Cucumbers, corn, okra, basil, cilantro, peppers, cucuzza gourd, beans, spinach and malabar spinach, radishes and various salad lettuces through early season but they have all bolted in the last month so im letting them go to collect seed and mint grows unbelievably well out here. I have tomato plants but no tomatoes cause it's too hot so I hope to get some in the fall or early winter. With such mild winter I'm gonna grow cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, beets, onions and several others that do better in cool climates. I've been composting chicken manure and bedding all summer so when time comes to remove all the summer veggies/fruits I'll mix that in along with with the kitchen scraps I've composted as an amendment for winter growing. I thought cactus was the only thing that could grow but after several years of failing I've finally got a flourishing garden.
Wow you sound like you have quite the green thumb. Ever heard of Tigger melons? They're heirloom and have a long growing time but they're really neat looking. They're the size of a soft ball and aren't as sweet as cantelope but have a similar taste..I've grown them. I have to start them early because of there long grow time. I have to fight the squash bugs for them..here's a pic online. I don't have any pics on my tablet of them.
I haven't heard of them but it looks interesting. I have sherbet icebox melons, they look like regular personal watermelon from the outside but inside is yellow, orange, or a pinkish red. So far I am getting an abundance of yellow and 1 pink but no orange yet and I planted all three and all the seeds grew so it's a bit of a mystery until I cut into them. Here's one I harvested recently
I don't have any trees in my yard, they were all cut down a few months before we moved in. I would love to plant some, we just haven't gotten there yet.
