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Plant Habit: Vine
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Uses: Vegetable
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Cantaloupe
  • Galia melon

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Location: Augusta GA
Date: 2013-07-23
Location: Augusta GA
Date: 2013-07-23
Location: Augusta GA
Date: 2013-07-24
Comments:
  • Posted by farmerdill (Augusta Georgia - Zone 8a) on Mar 17, 2014 6:38 PM concerning plant:
    An early Galia type. Listed at 60 days. Trialed it in 2013, but it was a bad year for melons. Neither trial nor control groups did well.

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