How to pot your cantaloupes - Claire's Allotment Part 232

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How are my cantaloupes getting on? Time to pot them up! See also part 192 Sowing Ambrosia Cantaloupe Melon Seeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIMoSw0YBUw And Chuck is cfenster on YouTube - do pay him a visit!

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Claire will kindly tell me the final planting size of the pot for cantaloupes? Can I use the same for watermelon or similar kind of fruits?

We had loads of snails. Then we raised Muscovy ducks for 3 years. Can't find any snails at all in our yard now. Sure they will come back eventually. We have a product here that is basically phosphorus that works very well. It is called sluggo. It will not hurt animals. One of 2 pesticides we use. We have red ants that we also treat, at nest site only and only if in area and only where we are walking in garden. Rarely in garden beds. Watering disturbs them. All natural other than that. We encourage birds, which eat the bugs.

Those seedling look beautiful Claire. I planted out 44 plants a few weeks ago. I sure hope that you get them to mature this year. I promise that you have never tasted a sweater melon. Thanks for mentioning me here once again! I do dearly love my friends from the UK that you have sent on to my channel!
Chuck

Dear Claire, over here in the states we are getting into grafting. I think this would help you also. Although you grow in a cooler climate, the increase in vigor would help in your slower producing season. I am experimenting Maxifort rootstock for my tomatoes. It will help in my disease problem plus it makes the plant about a third bigger. I think there is more than a third in production with bigger fruit. The major expense it in the seed stock. The grafting part is pretty easy. For the home grower I think this is the next thing in producing a better garden. You laughed and made a joke once to me about learning on you tube but here it is. There are a lot of You-tube v-logs on this subject. It is just as simple as cut and stick and nursing then for a few day. You can get organic stock if that is your thing. I am going for a good bottom on my heirloom tomatoes. As you know a store bought tomato tastes like, well you know {CRAP}. I am even thinking about the bucket style (Dr. Kratky method) type growing. This can be done with cucumbers, melons, peppers and so on. From what I have seen on yield and taste- they have come a long way. One of these growers in particular (mphgardener) has lots of v-log on this system that is fantastic. Check it out. BEST OF LUCK FROM SOUTH FLORIDA...

Can't wait to see how you get on with them ..

Lovely update thank you for sharing