Ginger's Pride Melon

We've really enjoyed this melon. It is productive and large. Most fruits are mild flavor, but there was an occasional not sweet on. Not overwhelmingly sweet, but pleasant melt-in-your-mouth soft. Bugs do tend to gather under the shelter of the fruit, and sometimes give a little sampling. Sometimes they crack after a rain. Their don't have a long shelf life. This past year, we had sooo many. We are them for all meals, and stored them in the frig, but some still went bad.

I grew a plant in 2015. It got a couple very large fruits; the first one looked a lot like a pumpkin when it was ripe (yes, it had an orange rind; maybe parts of the rind were yellow). It may have been overripe, in fact, but it was a great time to pick it, I felt. They were the juciest melons I've had, with very soft, very sweet, tasty flesh. They surprised everyone who saw them, I think. The main con is that bugs tend to eat little holes in the rind underneath when it's ripe, if it's resting on the soil. You pretty much want to eat them as soon as they're ripe. Mine were pretty big, but I believe they weren't nearly as big as this variety can get (and they still turned heads). We grew it on a patch with black plastic on the ground, and watered it an average amount early on, and very little later on.

I was excited to add Ginger's Pride cantaloupe to the "melon patch lineup" this year and had high hopes for it. All I can say is WOW! The description says they average between 14-22 pounds, from what I witnessed in my garden this year, y'all need to raise the upper end weight. ;) So far we've had 5 20 pounders off the 2 vines we planted with several more still growing. The largest so far was 25.111 pounds and measured a hair shy of 18" from flower end to stem and tasted really darn good. I really hope you plan on having these available for 2019 cause there's a bushel of people wanting seeds after seeing my marvelous monster melons.

So, I wanted the largest muskmelon to grow. I picked this variety. I used the northern "MI" method to grow these though I live close to IN. I used a 2 1/2' square piece of clear plastic to cover a huge hill after it was watered. I planted 3 plants in the hill by cutting an X in the plastic. I also cut a small hole in the middle of the hill for a wine bottle so I could water daily when needed. I got 7 large melons that are really tasty. I estimate that I got about 100 lbs of melon from one hill. I could not be happier. Unlike the Ledmon watermelon review, I knew when these were ready to pick. There is no dislikes for this amazing muskmelon. I picked three of 7 today: 8/18/16. The others should be ready by the end of August.

average melon 12-15LBS largest-over 25lbs