Corn & Cucurbitaceae

Melon Cantaloupe di Charentais produces round fruits with light, bark-like skin with stripes, around 1kg each. The flesh is light-orange-yellow with a sweet and pleasant melon flavor. Mid-season, around 85 days. 10seeds/pack

Blue Ballet produces drop-shaped to round-ish, mid-sized pumpkins with a powdery, grey-blue color. Around 1-3kg per fruit. Yellow-ish, flavorful, and stingless flesh. Stores very well after harvest. Cucurbita maxima. 5seeds/pack

Carbassa d´Aigua Gourd is a bottle gourd from the village of Vilanova de Bellpuig in Catalonia, Spain. Produces large bottle-shaped fruits with a long, and sometimes bent neck. Small, immature fruits can be eaten as squash. Fully mature fruits can be dried and then become very hard. When emptied of seeds, it can be used as a container. It was traditionally used to carry water to the plot or to store water at home. Climbing to more than 200-250cm. Lagenaria siceraria. 10seeds/pack

Kiwano, also call African Horned Cucumber, Horned Melon or Yelly Melon, is a vining species, easily climbing over 200cm. Heavy yielder of up to 10cm long fruits. The fruits are covered in spines or thorns. Can be eaten as unripe, in its green stage, or as yellow - fully ripe. As ripe the seeds inside the fruit get harder. Very yelly, with a melon-cucumber kind of flavor, mild and slightly sweet. Wants to grow in a warm place! Cucumis metuliferus. 10seeds/pack

Bitter Melon is a vining species, climbing over 200cm. Produces rubber-like fruits with soft spines. Ripen from green to yellow to orange as fully ripe. When fully ripe the fruits open from the bottom, showing the shiny red seeds. There are different varieties with longer fruits, round fruits, and also different tastes in bitterness. Used for cooking and its medicinal properties in the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, and China. Weedy, bitter flavor. Harvest as green and unripe. Momordica charantia. 7seeds/pack

Luffa Gourd, also called Sponge Gourd, is a vining species, climbing up to over 200cm. Produces green fruits, that ripen to dry brown as fully ripe. The fruits grow to between 20-40cm in length. As very unmatured the fruits can be cooked as okra. When the fruits are fully ripe and dry, they can be peeled and the seeds can be emptied. Inside you will find the sponge! The sponge can be used for showering, cleaning plates, housekeeping, etc. Requires a warm place. Luffa cylindrica / Luffa aegyptiaca. 10seeds/pack