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  • Answered by
    Nikki on
    July 1, 2012
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    No, just leave it. The plant will produce just fine. Clipping the vine could promote stress that can invite pests or disease.

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    Nikki on
    July 12, 2012
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    Assuming you mean watermelon, they will not continue to ripen once picked, but they will soften, so they can become edible. Once you pick them, they essentially stop sweetening. This article will help with harvesting:
    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/watermelon/pick-a-watermelon.htm

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    Nikki on
    July 23, 2012
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    Unfortunately, being of the same family and both sharing similar looking foilage and flower color, you may have to simply wait until fruiting occurs before you can tell for sure what you have.

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    Nikki on
    March 17, 2014
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    We created a guide for new gardeners that you may find helpful: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/starting-vegetable-gardens-guide.htm Your idea about the french drain sounds like a good one and should work well.

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    Nikki on
    October 15, 2014
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    By boring animals, do you mean worms/caterpillars or those of the four legged kind like mice or squirrels? For worms/caterpillars, you can try using Bt (https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/pesticides/using-bacillus-thuringiensis.htm) while the following articles should help control rodent pests: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/animals/garden-mouse-control.htm
    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/animals/get-rid-squirrels.htm

    As for eating them, if the melons aren't too badly damaged or rotted, then it's quite safe to eat (washing thoroughly of course). Just cut out any yucky or questionable parts.

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    Volcano2014 on
    October 15, 2014
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    It is probably still edible , just cut away the damaged part of fruit when you first notice it and it should be fine. When you say animals, you mean bugs right? if you did me animals, just kill the animals and lay traps or poison. if you mean bugs, there are a number of ways to eliminate bugs, You could spray bug killer, lay poison, traps, other bugs. If it is a flying moth or a cricket, beetle,grasshopper, or insects like that, you could find some spiders in some woods and release them around your garden. It would slowly decrease the number of bugs without causing harm to the plants, whereas the poison and bug killer may affect the plant and kill it.

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    shelley on
    April 28, 2015
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    In a row, the cantaloupe seeds are two feet apart. The space between each row is 5-6 feet apart.

    For more information on how to grow cantaloupe, please visit the following link:
    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/cantaloupe/growing-cantaloupe.htm

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