ARK Heirloom Seeds proudly carries a wide range of hardy, delicious, and high-quality seeds for your growing needs. Naturally, our selection includes superior heirloom melon seeds and heirloom cantaloupe varieties that are the perfect addition to your backyard garden. Heirloom melons and cantaloupe are simple to grow and produce large, tasty harvests packed with essential vitamins and nutrients! Learn more about our heirloom melon seeds below.
Harvesting Melon SeedsBees pollinate melons and they can cross-pollinate with other melon varieties but not with cucumbers or squash. If you are planning on saving the seeds, separate varieties by 200 ft. Select early bearing, disease resistant plants for seed saving. When harvesting, scoop out seeds, thoroughly rinse off any pulp sticking to them, and air-dry them for a week. Or place seeds and pulp in a bowl of water. The heavy, viable seeds will sink to the bottom of the bowl, and you can strain off the remaining seeds and pulp. Be sure seeds are thoroughly dry before storing. When melons are ripe enough to eat, the seeds are ripe enough to collect. Melon seeds are harvested ANNUALLY.
Try heirloom melon seeds and heirloom cantaloupe varieties from ARK Heirloom Seeds to grow these tasty varieties:
Sugar Baby heirloom melon seeds are the ideal watermelon seeds for the home gardener that wants big taste with limited space. This variety is extremely popular with new and experienced watermelon growers. Sugar Baby is easy to grow from seed and tends to be an abundant producer.
Maturity: 75-90 days
An heirloom variety and former All-America winner. This melon produces unusually large melons that typically weigh as much as 7 pounds each. Very sweet taste.
Maturity: 75-90 days
The classic green honeydew—sweet and delicious. Excellent by itself, in salads, or in desserts. With our heirloom melon seeds, you can grow the honeydew green type melon successfully in most climates, but it tends to thrive in the south and southwest. Maturity: 100-120 days
Melons are a good source of vitamins A and C as well as potassium; they’re low in sodium. Honeydew and cantaloupe also contain folate. Watermelon contains valuable antioxidants, and all three melons are low-calorie treats.
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