TexasJerseyMilker
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I am familiar with the saltyish Pecos river valley and dry county it flows through. The soil is unleached because if scant rain but wherever it gets water it is very lush and fertile .
This place in Oregon my garden and vineyard has clay soil needs PU truck loads of cow manure from the dairy has to be spaded into it. If Pecos Canteloupe like more potassium I could add a little murate of potassium, although my soil test reads adequate potassium.
I have been looking at cantaloupe varieties. The kind commercially grown in California that is shipped all over all season are the ESL varieties. That stands for Extended Shelf Life. Such as Fiji or Shockwave. They are OK but not knock your socks off great. The southern grown heat loving kinds, like these Pecos melons, are likely Athena or Ambrosia. I have never actually grown any melons, although one summer night raided a watermelon patch as a kid with my cousins. The owner came out on the porch with a shot gun and yelled Hey You Kids!
Whatever Pecos seeds Greybeard can send me are probably some of the southern kind. If I grew them in hills the soil would be warmer.
This place in Oregon my garden and vineyard has clay soil needs PU truck loads of cow manure from the dairy has to be spaded into it. If Pecos Canteloupe like more potassium I could add a little murate of potassium, although my soil test reads adequate potassium.
I have been looking at cantaloupe varieties. The kind commercially grown in California that is shipped all over all season are the ESL varieties. That stands for Extended Shelf Life. Such as Fiji or Shockwave. They are OK but not knock your socks off great. The southern grown heat loving kinds, like these Pecos melons, are likely Athena or Ambrosia. I have never actually grown any melons, although one summer night raided a watermelon patch as a kid with my cousins. The owner came out on the porch with a shot gun and yelled Hey You Kids!
Whatever Pecos seeds Greybeard can send me are probably some of the southern kind. If I grew them in hills the soil would be warmer.
