Melon Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo
Melon Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo. 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
- 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.
- Can be trained to save space or left to trail.
