Re: Spacing for melons

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• Subject: Re: Spacing for melons
• From: J* M* <j*@mindspring.com>
• Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:45:42 -0500
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Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

> esnively@pagesz.net wrote:
> > Does anyone have experience growing cantaloupes and watermelons?
> >
> > I am trying to decide whether to use trellises, or just let them grow on the
> > ground.

I seem to recall Mel recommending in either the book or the TV show
growing melons on the standard vertical frame and attaching slings to
support the weight of large fruits. Conceptually, that should work for
an arbitrarily large fruit (melons, pumpkings, whatever) so long as the
frame was strong enough to support both the heavy load and the torque
exerted by the fruits being out of the normal plane of the frame (sorry
for the engineering jargon). Perhaps one of those cotton reusable
shopping bag/net things would work well, or the netting in which they
sell oranges or potatos. I have never seen this done however in
practice. Anybody tried the "sling" method? I tried growing melons once
but the results were pretty sad :(

Jonathan Maier
jmaier@mindspring.com
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"The aesthetics of natural science and mathematics is at one with the 
 aesthetics of music and painting--both inhere in the discovery of a
 partially concealed pattern."

                      -Herbert A. Simon _The Sciences of the Artificial_


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