Trying something new this year: planting melons only 1 foot apart, same spacing as the emitters on my drip tape. I’ll train the vines to go out 90 degrees from the row, so they will have 8 foot each way to spread out. My theory is this will save water, since I’m only using one row of drip tape for all the mellons. And I won’t be watering anywhere there isn’t a plant I want. Last year I was watering rows of weeds, that didn’t’ work out great.

Varieties of melon planted:

• Hale’s Best Jumbo
• Minnesota Midget
• Charentais
• Prescott Fond Blame
• Imperial 45
• Canary-Yellow
• Honeydew
• Ambrosia
• Gurney’s Giant
• Old Israeli
• Planters Jumbo
• Aspire F1
• Mainstream
• Passport
• Israeli (Haogen)
• Hearts of Gold