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    Just reading about the good crops expected from the fruit trees.
    We had a load of melon plants come and was wondering what I was going to do with them. Now they look sad which I hope is down to the cold weather. The winds here would cut you in 2.
    Does anyone else have this problem.
    Bob.

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    Melons in the UK are a gamble unless you can figure a way of giving them some extra warmth - in the Victorian period hotbeds were v popular and can still be a reasonable proposition, if you can get enough raw material cheaply.

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    • #3
      Thank you for your message. Got a heater on. The tomatoes are growing well but the peppers/melons/chillies and cucumbers are all struggling.
      Bob.

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      • #4
        Are they under glass or plastic?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by goosander View Post
          Thank you for your message. Got a heater on. The tomatoes are growing well but the peppers/melons/chillies and cucumbers are all struggling.
          Bob.
          Well that's another way round it for sure :-)

          It might be worth doing a bit more searching on the Internet for melon varieties which people have had success with in this country - I'm a long way out of date inevitably - I believe there were some experiments done on grafting melons onto a hardier root-stock too, but I don't know what the outcome was.

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          • #6
            I haven't even sown mine yet. They'll definitely need protecting from cold. What temperature do they get down to at night with the heater on?

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            • #7
              Mine, although tiny, are in the unheated greenhouse and not complaining too much, considering I dropped them all on the floor on Sunday. They have to be tough to survive me. Hopefully better weather forecast for next week will perk yours up.

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