Hey Guys,
Just checking in from NC! Looks like either Edonis or Savor from Johnny's...good melons, but you have to pick according to Johnny's directions. They have a tendency to split, especially in a really wet year like we have in 2003. I'll bet their growing in your wooden hoophouse, I would like to see some updated pics of it. How are the tomatoes? I've been picking for a week now...Sungolds and Burpee Early Pick Hybrid. EP is a great, early (62 day) red slicer that would do really well in your hoophouse. It sets fruit well under variable conditions and has great flavor. Their is a great website--www.hightunnels.org that has good info on tomato production. It would be a good investment to even buy a 16' x 48' tunnel to get tom's earlier than everybody else when you can command a higher price. Keep up the good work, hope to get my wife to get the website up and running soon.....
tom

Hi Tom,

Thanks for stopping by. Yes, indeed, the melons are Johnny's Edonis. We also have some Savor in the field.

We do some tomatoes -- Buffalo in a little tiny hoophouse, and field cherries like Sungold and Sweet 100s. But the hard thing about tomatoes up here is that there are a number of other local growers who already have real professional greenhouses and they have their tomatoes ready in early to mid-June (which is very early up here).

So instead of competing with them, we are trying the melon route. No one does melons up here much because the conventional thinking has always been that you cannot be guaranteed a good crop with our cool summers. So if we have hoophouse melons by late-July/early August, followed by field melons in mid-August, we will basically have about six to eight weeks of melons all to ourselves, because no one else bothers to try. I hope it works. But we shall see!

Good luck down there.

Peter