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- Breed melon and harvest from your own garden?
- The selection paser varieties
- The extraction of seeds
- Prefer melons and plant
- Tips & Tricks
Breed melon and harvest from your own garden?
Although melons are expected to be a fruit in terms of taste, they are actually a vegetable due to the dying of the plants with the harvest. The propagation and breeding of melons therefore takes place via the extraction of seeds from the ripe fruits.
The selection paser varieties
When choosing the right types of melon for growing in the garden, you should not only consider the personal taste, but also the sunshine and the available space at the planned location. Large varieties of watermelon such as the Crimson Sweet need plenty of space for their long tendrils and the fruit resting on the ground. Smaller watermelons such as the sugar baby and sugar melons, the Galia or the Charentais also bear fruit on climbing tendrils and can be so well suited for growing in a greenhouse.
The extraction of seeds
In principle, the seeds for the production of melons can not only be bought in well-stocked specialist shops for seeds, but can also be obtained from home-grown or supermarket-bought fruits. While the selection of seeds in self-cultivation hybrid varieties with poor possibility for propagation can be avoided, so you have to rely on purchased fruit usually on the luck. First, remove any attached flesh before gently drying and storing the melon seeds.So they can easily mold and thus lose their germination ability.
Prefer melons and plant
In order to obtain good breeding results for your melons year after year, you should always only harvest seeds from the fruits that meet your breeding requirements. In this way, you can gradually breed less hearty varieties or plants with particularly strong growth. So that the melons in this country in the garden or in the greenhouse really mature, you should prefer them from April on the windowsill. Please note the following tips:
Tips & Tricks
The young plants of the various types of melons are a real delicacy for snails, so ensure sufficient protection against snails after planting.
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