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One of our absolute favorite crops are muskmelons! We grow them throughout our food forest! Here’s a few of the ways we are growing them. In the greenhouse they vine all around the ground as a living mulch layer. They also vine up the east side of the greenhouse helping create good shade and transpiration. In other areas of the forest, we grow them under fruit trees and let them take over as living mulch and they even vine up the trees. In other areas we let vine up other trellises and join vines like kiwi. In our front yard, they are planted in deep hugelkultur mounds and will take over certain quadrants again....assisting create mulch layers for the surrounding fruit trees which at this time of year in our climate are super stressed from the near 110 degree heat.
Cheers to growing our own mineral dense melons steepshot and steemit! Freedom!!!!
Here's a couple of books I HIGHLY recommend on muskmelons:
https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Muskmelons-Liberty-Hyde-Bailey/dp/1985047071/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1530806184&sr=8-10&keywords=muskmelon
and
https://www.amazon.com/Greenhouse-Gardeners-Companion-Revised-Sunspace/dp/1555914500/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530806295&sr=1-1&keywords=greenhouse+gardening+companion ....this book..I learned about growing muskmelons vertically. Both books a jam packed full of helpful insights...on many levels!
Our favorite spot...to scoop peculiar varieties of muskmelon: https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/melon/melons/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskmelon
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Steepshot