Growing Melons Seed To Harvest | Cantaloupe - Watermelons | Pruning & Taste Test | Temperate Climate
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- Have you thought about growing melons? In this video we show you the process we used from start to finish and how we grew WATERMELONS in a temperate climate.
We grew four different varieties, Pocket Melon, Minnesota Midget, De Charentais and Watermelons. This video also shows how we prune them.
We are located in the UK in USDA hardiness Zone 9a.
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I have been trying desperately to find a comprehensive videos for UK growers of melons and stumbled across this video of yours and I have to say this was exactly what I was looking for! 👌 Excellent information and presentation! I shall be trawling through the rest of your videos now and hopefully any future ones you upload! Thank you
Wesley, thanks for your nice message, we hadnt got much feedback on this video so really glad its come in useful to you! Appreciate your kind words and thanks for joining us!
I've recently set up my 10ft by 20ft polytunnel and I am now so excited to fill it with melons, thanks for this video so helpfull. Bring on Spring and Summer can't wait!!!
Woohooo - Good on you - You're gonna be feasting of the freshest melons you've ever tasted this year 🙌✌️🌿
Yum, you are making my mouth water.
Melon season is a truly scrumpious time for sure 🍉 Can't wait for them to start again this year 💚 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
We are growing Melons this year. Your pruning advice is off the charts GOOD! I hope to have a decent harvest this year. I'm growing 12 to 15 varieties on a 5x30 ft trellis system in grow pots with a solar drip system and monthly feeding cycle. Why so many? Its for the show. We'll cut back when we find our favorites that have less difficulty for 2025.
Yeahhhh - Good on you for going for it with the melons 🙌🍉 the reward will be SWEEEET and very satisfying 💚 Great idea finding which ones work best for you too 👍 Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏✌️🌿
This is my first year growing melons, thanks for all the helpful tips 😊
Awesome - good on you - glad it was helpful - happy growing ✌️🌿
Fabulous 👍👍👍
Thank you 🤗✌️🌿
A great video - I’ve learnt so much about how to grow tall fruit plants! 🍈 🍉 they look lush Dan x
Thank you Donna! Really appreciate your comment!
Impressive!!!
Thank you 🙏✌️🌿
Another lovely video!
Thanks Nneka, hopefully we've tempted you to try growing Melons next year
@@freedomforestlife Ohhhh, the temptation is definitely strong but I have to think very carefully what it’ll mean for my limited space. You are not helping me stay disciplined 😀
The farming method is amazing
Thank you - Glad you enjoyed the video 💚✌️🌿
Thank you for such a well presented and informative video. I'm going to grow the di Charentais melon this year but we don't have a poly tunnel, so it will be out in the open. I hope they do well.
Glad it was helpful and best of luck, let us know how they do outside!
Im ur new subscriber i seen ur full video well done beautiful thank for sharing i will grove mellon next year in my allotement
I don’t live in the uk but I appreciate the info👍. Those look amazing! This will be my first year growing melons and after seeing how much production you have, I’ll definitely be pruning mine. Subbed🙌
Thanks for the lovely comment - glad our video has helped you, you might enjoy our polytunnel tour videos too where you can see the melon growing in other vids too ( th-cam.com/play/PLOidPRQofoMPTpfmYOxLnOb3sWZ-hIZ20.html )
Where abouts in the world are you? Thanks heaps for subscribing ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife thanks I’ll check it out
Good video. Appreciate the effort. I was actually looking for a video on how to train the watermelon vines. You can tell when your watermelon is ripe when the adjacent tendril turns brown.
Thanks DK, appreciate your comment and your tip 👍🙏 glad you enjoyed the vid too - thanks for saying so ✌️🌿
Great video guys. Please can you tell me how often do you water the melon plants
We water 3 times per week. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏 we’ll be filming a new polytunnel tour in the next week or so showing how they are growing this years. Here’s our polytunnel playlist, if you’d like to see more on them through the seasons - thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
👉 th-cam.com/play/PLOidPRQofoMPTpfmYOxLnOb3sWZ-hIZ20.html&si=2P-ejunhxFJ_RKuL
hey good video man. Blessings from North Wales.
Hey, thanks! Glad you enjoyed the vid - great to know your with us in North Wales 🙌 Thanks for watching & commenting 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife u are in North Wales too?
@@justinrobertsendoftheage we are central south coast, near-ish to Portsmouth, sorry to confuse with my choose of words, good to know you are here with us on TH-cam from North wales 🙏 we love hearing where people are from, it’s awesome how far we can reach and share with the internet 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife ok i get u know worries God Bless
Hi Dan. Loved watching your video and seeing your success. I’ve been growing Emir in my polytunnel for the past few years, a lovely melon but I’m lucky if I get one good size melon per plant, always very low on the plant. I’m not sure whether it’s a feeding or watering issue, spacing or maybe something else as I would have thought at least 3 fruits per plant is feasible
Hey Nick, we don’t give ours any additional food other than just a very basic compost and the woodchip layer… so I would guess at either water or spacing … the woodchip we use obviously helps to retain the moisture too, which they will like, interestingly though, this year we’ve planting watermelons in 2 tunnels… in one tunnel we planted single planet per space … a good 2m apart at least and they are growing very strongly and forming well already … in the other tunnel … same spacing overall but plants doubled up in planting hole …. Not happy strong watermelons in this tunnel … hope that helps and really glad that you enjoyed the vid - thanks for letting us know 🙏✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Many thanks for your reply. I'll increase the spacing next year and see how that goes
Good video. also heard someone say about the water melon that the little growth above the fruit starts to turn brown when its ripe
Great tip - thank you 🙏✌️🌿
Do you believe the success of these melons was because they were grown in a poly tunnel, much warmer environment? I'm asking because, I am Kent UK & no tunnel.....have you tried growing them outdoors?
Congratulations on your successful harvest, they looked so juicie and flavoursome.
Hi Alison, Yes i do think its because of the tunnel we got these results, i do think an early variety like Minisota midget or pocket melon would fruit and ripen outdoors in kent but you wouldnt get so many, we are going to try a a russian type this year which is meant to be good outside here!
Hi, this is amazing, can I ask where did you get your polytunnel and what size you have please?
Hi Chantel, our tunnels are 16.5m x4m and we got our tunnels from @premierpolytunnels they are really lovely to deal with, we found them a little cheaper than some of the competitors and great quality - thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed - you might like to see some of the summer tours we did of them too th-cam.com/play/PLOidPRQofoMPTpfmYOxLnOb3sWZ-hIZ20.html
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Really useful video, thanks. I'm growing Minnesota Midget for the first time and was wondering if you need to support the ripening fruits? I had one fall off today (still unripe) and split open. Don't want to lose any more of these precious treasures! Do I need to be cutting up my tights or not? Any advice welcome
Glad our video has helped - thats awesome! We don't support ours ... but you could if you wanted to/don't have many... We had a few fall off the vines last year, but mainly when they were actually ripe, so we just took them and ate those ones straight away ... usually the sweetest most ripest ones 😋 Thanks for watching & Please share the video anywhere you think it will be useful to ours too - this really helps us too 🙏✌️🌿
I've had some success with the cantaloupe
Hi guys . Very interesting video I enjoyed it . 😀 are they or were they fresh woodchips you put on your beds please? Thanks.
Mark Carroll.
Hey Mark, thank you very much! They had been sat for a while until all the green leaf etc had turned brown..we have used fresh woodchips alot, its fine, as long as its a mulch ontop of the soil and it doesnt get mixed into the soil!
Thanks very much. I'm going to get a picture of my set up tomorrow if you could give your opinion. I'm a little worried I'm trying to get too much in. Thanks so much. I'm working my way through all of your videos 🤣
Great video.
Do you prune the top of the vine to stop it growing and put more energy in to the fruits?
Yes we do - when it reaches the top of the string. Glad you enjoyed the vid ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife many thanks for the information. 🤙
Great video, I really enjoyed this. What variety of watermelon did you grow?
Hi, Glad you enjoyed the video - thanks for letting us know 🙏 The water melon variety is Crimson Sweet - from Premier Seeds direct, I think, 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife great, I will try that variety. Thanks
I ordered some! can you remember your spacing between plants?@@freedomforestlife
Found your video very helpful as just purchased a polytunnel and thought I can now grow melons, please can you tell me what string it is your useing or send me the link to purchase some which I will be very much appreciated.
hey stephanie, thank you! yes its 'bailer twine' you can find it on ebay in rolls of like 250m in various colours
@@freedomforestlife Thank you.
What do yo do with the leader stem when it reaches the top of the Polytunnel? Train it back down? Mine have reached the top of my Greenhouse already.
hey paul, i cut it off when it reachs the top, ours get to around 5-6ft in height and produce a nice amount!
Whats the spacing between plants? Thanks
What kind of soil do you recommend for melons? Also is there actually a benefit to pruning off flowers for fewer melons?
HI, we just use a very standard soil for ours - but the woodchip mulch is defo loved by all plants in this family ! We tried single stem pruning this year and whilst it may be down to the seasonal conditions, we have definitely had LESS fruit than normal this year, we've not pruned off flowers in other years (nature will terminate naturally) and we have had very good crops 💚 Hope that helps ✌️🌿
How did you manage to keep temps above 20c ?
Hi Dainel, Climate change I guess! But honestly, nothing special, we have not additional heat source in our tunnels, other than a good woodchip mulch, which will off course help to regulate the soil temps.✌️🌿
When did you start planting
We sow the Melon seeds at toward begining of April, this years have been in a week and today just started germinating, ✌️🌿
What do you feed your melons?
Hi, we don't feed them anything, just the compost and woodchip mulch that we plant them with. Nice and simple 💚✌️🌿
Harvest your watermelons next time, after the closest string to the fruit started to dry 👍🏻
Thank you!