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Mini Cantaloupe

Sugar Cube

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Mini Cantaloupe

Sugar Cube

You’ll love these personal size, mini cantaloupes with intensely sweet, deep orange flesh that top out about the size of a small grapefruit. Sugar Cube cantaloupes are widely adapted, bear early, and produce abundantly over a long harvest season. The vigorous vines have exceptional disease resistance; this variety thrives where most melons struggle. Fruits make delicious individual snacks and scrumptious summer desserts. Disease resistance codes: F3, PM, WMV, PRSV, ZYMV
Seed Count: Approx. 14 / Weight: 360 mg / F-1 Hybrid
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STARTING SEEDLINGS OUTDOORS

Melons need full sun, rich soil and warm temperatures. Plant only when weather is warm and settled and temperatures stay above 50° (10°C). In rows 4 feet apart, sow groups of 2 to 3 seeds every 2 feet. After germination, thin to the strongest seedling per group, so you end up with one plant every 2 feet. Or make slightly mounded hills, 2 feet in diameter and 5 feet apart, sowing 5 or 6 seeds in each hill. Thin to 3 strongest plants.


TO START EARLY INDOORS

Several weeks before last frost date, sow seeds in individual pots of seed starting mix. Keep warm and moist, and provide a strong light source until weather warms enough to transplant outdoors.


GROWING NOTES

Amend soil well with aged manure or compost. Where summers are short or cool, lay down black plastic to retain heat, and plant into holes made in plastic. Where insects are a problem, cover seedlings with floating row covers to exclude them, removing when plants blossom. Keep young vines well watered and fed, tapering off water as fruits ripen up.


HARVEST AND USE

Pick when little melons are fully colored, fragrant and “slip” or pull easily from the vines. With their abundant fruits, small size and sweet, deep orange flesh, Sugar Cubes are true summer treats – the whole family will enjoy these delicious personal sized melons!

Plant In

Location

Planting Depth

Space Seeds

Days To Germinate

Days To Harvest

April – June
Full sun
1 inch
Rows: 2 ft. apart
Hills: 6 in. apart
7 – 10 days
Approx. 75 – 80

Plant In

Location

Planting Depth

Space Seeds

Days To Germinate

Days To Harvest

April – June
Full sun
1 inch
Rows: 2 ft. apart
Hills: 6 in. apart
7 – 10 days
Approx. 75 – 80

Plant In

April – June

Location

Full sun

Planting Depth

1 inch

Space Seeds

Rows: 2 ft. apart
Hills: 6 in. apart

Days To Germinate

7 – 10 days

Days To Harvest

Approx. 75 – 80

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