Melon Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo Organic
Melon Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo Organic. This variety is the most popular Cantaloupe type Melon because it combines excellent flavour with earliness. Hale’s Best is a beautiful, large, oval, ribbed cantaloupe with heavy, golden netting. Ribbed netting turns a golden tint as oval shaped melons mature, many weighing 4 lbs. or more. Deep orange flesh is very thick and deliciously sweet, very fragrant and improves in flavour after picking.
Cultivation Advice Melon Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo Organic
- Sow in warmth in late spring in 3 inch pots,
- 1/2in deep (windowsill or heated greenhouse – 3-4 seeds per pot.
- 5-10 days germination.
- After germination thin to strongest seedlings before planting to pot or ground.
- Best grown under cover, but possible in very warm sheltered positions outside.