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Melon's

Melons can be enjoyed as a healthy snack and they are a great source of vitamin C and antioxidants. Early start, a far summer and regular watering, good crops can be achieved. The plants have a trailing habit so they need plenty of room or training around and within posts. Sow in the same way as traditional melons, but start off as early as possible to get the full season of growth. We grow a number of varieties.
  • Is tolerant to low temperatures with a round oval shape with a greyish-green peel colour. It turns orange when it is maturing. These melons are very tasty, fragrant and a sweet variety of melon. Delicious and juicy when eaten on their own.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 7.00
  • Description: Also known as the green melon, the honeydew is known for being a less-sweet cousin of the cantaloupe. It is very common in fruit spreads.
    Taste: Honeydew melons typically retain the musky, fragrant flavors of other muskmelons, but they possess a slightly subdued flavor.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 7.00
  • Is an early maturing vigorous charentais variety, producing fruits weighing approximately 1 kg. The flesh is tender and deep orange in colour. The melons have a brix rating of 15%, giving the flesh a sweet taste.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 7.00
  • A very popular strain, its small fruits have wonderfully sweet, tasty, yellow-green flesh.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 7.00
  • Water Melon Crimson Sweet. A very productive variety producing large round melons averaging 7 to 10 kilos approx., which are oval, light green with dark green stripes. The fruit has very sweet flesh that is brilliant red and practically seedless. Good disease resistance. Ready for harvest about 85 days after seeding in warm conditions. Can be grown outside in a warm, sheltered and sunny location, but for the most reliable crops under glass is best.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.00
  • A more compact variety although still trailing, producing small rugby ball shaped fruits which contain seeds but have a rich, sweet deliciously juicy flavour.
    Grown under glass each plant can produce three to four fruits.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.00
  • Hand size! Perfect-sized mini seedless watermelon is easy to grow and adaptable to a variety of conditions. Refreshing flavor in its own picnic package! Pop these 'mini-seedless' watermelons into the refrigerator for a quick snack or bring a bunch on picnic's. Perfect-sized, easy to grow and widely adaptable. Vigorous plants producer!
    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.50
  • A new personal sized Watermelon with sweet 1.3 kilo approx., (pending on growing conditions) fruit and a distinctive bright green rind with dark green stripes and delicious bright red flesh containing fewer and smaller seeds.

    Small and quick to grow.
    Crisp and sweet.
    Maturity 12 to 14 week.
    Dark green with lush red flesh.
    Ideal for those hot summer days, these small melons are perfect fridge size.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.00
  • The Moon and Stars Watermelon has a dark green rind speckled with tiny yellow "stars" and an occasional large yellow patch, or "moon".

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 7.00
  • Benincasa hispida, the wax gourd or winter melon, is a Chinese gourd with firm, tasty flesh. The mature melon have a waxy surface and can be stored up to one year!

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.00

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