Description
Grows to about six and a half inches in diameter, this melon has thick, sweet, salmon-orange flesh with a rich, aromatic flavor. It's also high in vitamins A, B, and C. When harvested fully ripe, Hales Best Jumbo Cantaloupe is packed with essential nutrients and vitamins, making it an ideal way to help meet your daily nutritional needs.
- Characteristics: Attracts bees and pollinators
- Color: Orange
- Fill Weight (grams): 3.5 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 115 - 125
- Flavor: Sweet, rich.
- Preparation Ideas: Make a cold soup for hot summer days by pureeing the melon, adding juice from 1 lime and a bit of salt.
- Plant Type: Fruit
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Type: Vining
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer
Sowing Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe seeds roughly 4' apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 4' apart.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Description
Grows to about six and a half inches in diameter, this melon has thick, sweet, salmon-orange flesh with a rich, aromatic flavor. It's also high in vitamins A, B, and C. When harvested fully ripe, Hales Best Jumbo Cantaloupe is packed with essential nutrients and vitamins, making it an ideal way to help meet your daily nutritional needs.
- Characteristics: Attracts bees and pollinators
- Color: Orange
- Fill Weight (grams): 3.5 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 115 - 125
- Flavor: Sweet, rich.
- Preparation Ideas: Make a cold soup for hot summer days by pureeing the melon, adding juice from 1 lime and a bit of salt.
- Plant Type: Fruit
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Type: Vining
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer
Sowing Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe seeds roughly 4' apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 4' apart.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.