Buy Horned Melon Seeds Description/Taste Horn melon produce spiky points throughout its bright yellow and orange, mottled skin. The interior contains a rich, jelly-like, lime green flesh studded with white seeds reminiscent of cucumber seeds. The melon has a sweet and tart, banana-lime taste. A flavor that is enhanced when chilled. The brighter the
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Tiger Melon Seeds Description/Taste Tigger melons smooth rind has vertical variegations of rust orange and yellow. The melon’s creamy, off-white flesh is juicy and sweet with a flavor that has been compared to that of Asian pear and cantaloupe. Like most muskmelon types, it offers a highly aromatic scent and has been known to perfume
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Korean Melon / Cucumis melo L. var. makuwa Plant Information The Korean melon, a cool sub-temperate crop, grows well in greenhouses, open fields, and home gardens. With the help of the instructions on how to grow Korean melons provided here, plant their seedlings, and pick sweet and flavorful melons right from the vine, this
Read More Kiwano Melon / Horned Melon / Cucumis metuliferus Plant Information The horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus) — which also goes by the common names kiwano, jelly melon or African horned cucumber — produces showy and edible fruits that feature distinctive stippled skin and spiky protrusions. This native of South Africa, hardy in U.S. Department of
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Hummingbird Vine / Red Cypress Vine / Ipomoea Quamoclit Plant Information Cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) has thin, thread-like leaves that give the plant a light, airy texture. It is usually grown against a trellis or pole, which it climbs by twining itself around the structure. The star-shaped flowers bloom all summer and into fall in red, pink or
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Hami Melon / Cucumis melo ‘Hami melon‘ Plant Information Chinese “Hami” melon (approximately 110 days in the Columbia Basin): “Hami” is the generic Chinese word for a group of crisp-fleshed “winter” melons. Hami melons may have either red-pink, salmon, white, or green flesh. One group is slightly longer than a football but smaller in
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Dragon Fruit / Hylocereus undatus Plant Information Who knew there was a plant with a flower like an explosion of flame, which produces a beautiful but short-lived fruit with the appearance of a brilliant pink rosebud? This is the pitya – dragon fruit – indigenous to Central America but is also grown and
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Purple Dragon Fruit / Hylocereus polyrhizus Plant Information Who knew there was a plant with a flower like an explosion of flame, which produces a beautiful but short-lived fruit with the appearance of a brilliant pink rosebud? This is the pitya – dragon fruit – indigenous to Central America but is also grown and
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Cardinal Climber / Ipomoea Quamoclit Cardinalis Plant Information Cardinal Climber vines are an easy to grow, climbing annual vine. The twining stems will grow quickly up an arbor, trellis or fence. Many varieties can grow up to a height of 10-15 feet in a season. Some varieties will grow up to 30 feet! The profusion
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