Melons & Watermelons

Armenian Cucumber is not really a cucumber, but a melon. Produces cucumber-looking, elongated fruits, between 20-50cm long. The melons are slightly ribbed and pale green. Crispy, sweet flesh with a hint of melon. The more ripe the fruits are the more taste of melon. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Cucumis melo var. flexuosus. 6seeds/pack

Armenian Cucumber is not really a cucumber, but a melon. Produces cucumber-looking, elongated fruits, between 20-50cm long. The melons are slightly ribbed and dark green, with a very fine, frizzy hair. Crispy, sweet flesh with a hint of melon. The more ripe the fruits are the more taste of melon. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Cucumis melo var. flexuosus. 6seeds/pack

Ananas produces yellow-orange-brown fruits with creme-yellow flesh. Sweet flavor. The fruits are slightly ragged, with a bark-like pattern. Later variety, grow in a warm place or greenhouse. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

Melon Billeberga is a Swedish melon grown in Sweden already in the 1940s. The variety is described in Weibull AB’s catalog from 1944. Billeberga is a local variety of first class. Round to slightly oval fruits around 1-1,5kg each. Yellow, finely ribbed skin. Orange-yellow flesh with excellent flavor. Meaty fruits with a small core with few seeds. Cucumis melo. 6seeds/pack

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

Jaune Canari 3 produces oval, yellow fruits with creme-colored flesh. Sweet flavor with a nice aroma. Later variety, grow in a warm place or greenhouse. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

Kajari is a melon from Punjab, India. Beautiful, round to oblate fruits with stripes in orange-green-white up to 1kg each. Green flesh with an excellent sweet honey-melon flavor. When fully ripe the fruits fall from the vine. If grown on a trellis, be sure to bind the fruits so they don’t fall to the ground and crack. 70-75D. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

Larger melon with golden-yellow skin. White, sweet flesh with an excellent flavour. Can be stored for a long time. While being stored, the flesh matures and gets sweeter. Later variety. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

Queen Anne’s Pocket Melon is a variety with tiny fruits of around 50grams each. Golden orange fruits with golden stripes. Juicy fruits with a mild and sweet melon flavor, can be served with warm honey. Exquisite fragrance. Was used during the Victorian era by ladies who wore fruits as perfume. Cucumis melo. 85D. 10seeds/pack

Retato Degli Ortolani produces oval fruits around 2kg with salmon-orange flesh. The skin is chamois coloured. Delicious flavour with a strong aroma. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

St. Vasileios, ”Agíou Vasileíou” produces elongated, slightly ribbed, yellow to dark-yellow fruits. Crème-white flesh with a sweet flavor and intense aroma. Around 3-4kg. The plants have small lobed, light-green leaves. Late variety. From Greece. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

Melon Tendral Verde Tardio produces oval-elongated, dark-green, slightly ribbed fruits, around 1-3kg each. The flesh is light-green, with a very sweet and pleasant melon flavor. Can be a bit difficult to see when the fruits are completely ripe. Stores very well after harvest, used as a winter melon. Late variety, around 100 days. 10seeds/pack

Thrace Melon, “Melon Thrakiotiko”, produces large, globe-shaped melons up to 3kg, with a little “nose”. The skin is yellow with dark spots and speckles. The flesh is crème-white with a hint of pale-yellow-orange. Firm flesh with a delicious, sweet, and juicy flavor. The flesh has a hint of floral honey. Later variety. Old heirloom variety from the region of Thrace, which includes parts of Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

Zakynthos produces flattened fruits, slightly ribbed in “slices”. Golden to paler yellow fruits with white-green flesh. Sweet flavor with a pleasant aroma. Earlier variety. From Greece. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack

Charleston Grey Watermelon produces oval, large fruits, with green-grey skin. Sweet and juicy red flesh. Larger and a bit later variety, grow in a warm place or a greenhouse. Citrullus lanatus. 6seeds/pack

Crimson Sweet Watermelon produces round-oval, large fruits, white-green-striped. Sweet, red flesh. Larger and a bit later variety, grow in a warm place or a greenhouse. Citrullus lanatus. 10seeds/pack

Sugar Baby Watermelon produces round, smaller fruits with dark-green skin, about 20cm in diameter, around 1-3kg each. Sweet, red, juicy flesh. Earlier variety. Grown in a warm place. Citrullus lanatus. 10seeds/pack