MELON Cantaloup Charentais

Species: Melon
Latin name: Cucumis melo L.
Inscription in the European catalog under: Cantalupo di Charentais
Other usual name: Cantaloup du midi
Variety: Charente-native cantaloup
Family: Cucurbitaceous
Origin: India, Africa

The melon cantalou charentais: One of the best melon, variety cultivated for its round fruit with smoth clear green skin, this melon has a firm flesh of orange color, very scented and very sweetened and juicy, refreshing. Melon is a fruit with lots of vitamins. The leaves are generally slightly lobed, with crawling stems. Keep melon in the refrigerator in a ventilated place for 6 to 8 days. The melon is use as apetiser or as dessert, make also great sorbet.

Seed sowing: From May to June
Harvest melons: From June to September
Height: The Melon reaches on average 20cm
Exposure: Sunny

Sowing instructions: Seed sowing in place directly after any danger of frost is drawn aside, sow seeds in pocket holes and place 4 to 6 seeds at 2 to 3cm deep, the melon prefers a sheltered site and quite sunny in your garden, water soil after sowing even in the event of rain. Thin up seedling with 3 seedlings per hole after seven weeks. It is also possible to cultivate it under greenhouse for an earlier harvest. Eliminate the leave masking the fruits to allow them to mature correctly.

Sowing distance: 30 cm by 1m between the plants
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 20°C with 24°C
Seed germination: 6 to 10 days
Nutritional value: 48 Kcal to the 100 gr.

Net weight of seeds: 2 gr = +/- 70 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.