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  • Cucumbers and Melons together ????

    Didnt know if I should post this in Vegging Out, Under Cover or Fruit area, but here goes

    My Freecycle greenhouse is now finished and I want to use it to grow a few tomatoes (and I mean a few, the rest will be grown outside or in my poly greenhouse) some chillies and Telegraph Improved Cucumbers along with Yellow Baby Melons.

    My plan in to grow the melons and cucumbers up a framework of bamboo poles taking them up the side of the greenhouse and over the roof. BUT I think I may have read somewhere that growing melons and cucumbers together can result in bitter fruit

    Is this right or have I made it up? I dont intend to seed save from them. Help please

  • #2
    I have grown cukes and melon in the greenhouse at the same time and didn't notice any bitterness, I grew Ogen Melon and F1 Lunchbox cukes

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    • #3
      I've had a good look round on the net and found these Jilly have a read, I've always believed that it could happen so I'm a little confused myself now

      Cross-pollination Between Vine Crops | Horticulture and Home Pest News

      Pollination of Vine Crops

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      • #4
        Good question Jilly...I have been thinking about that. So from the article they are not going to affect one another.

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        • #5
          I had read somehwere you shouldn't grow them together, I raised it as part of another thread a while ago, and was told that they grow fine together, but you would have to be careful if planning on seed saving.
          Elsie

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          • #6
            Last year I grew Emir and Galia melons, Telegraph and marketer cucumbers and also marmande tomatoes in the same greenhouse. Cucs were prolific, melons were few but delicious, tomatoes were not very good. No bitterness from any of it.

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            • #7
              Although melons and cucs are both cucurbits they're different species so won't cross. Have grown them loads of times next to each other and it's not a problem. t will not effect either the taste of the fruit or the seeds for next year although 2 different types of cucs will cross with each other etc

              Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

              Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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              • #8
                Thank you everyone for the links and advice.

                OK, Im going to plant them together in the greenhouse, Alison final words of wisdom clinched it for me.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Jillyreeves View Post
                  Thank you everyone for the links and advice.

                  OK, Im going to plant them together in the greenhouse, Alison final words of wisdom clinched it for me.
                  Oh heck - hope I am right then

                  Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                  Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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