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 Melons. I had really bad luck with my melons this year. Due to an unfortunate event i lost all my melon seeds. Then i thought to myself oh well it's not that bad since i planted out fifty melon plants. But this year was such a bad year that i am not sure now to harvest any seeds at all. That would mean that four years of working on trying to create a muskmelon landrace here in brittany would be lost. Unless my backup plan of getting seeds from some friends i sent seeds to will work. This will serve as a lesson to me to better store, organise and take care of my seeds. I only have three plants outside now with a slim chance left to produce viable seed. At this stage i am not even thinking of tasty fruit anymore. Just of viable seeds to be able to continue. I also have one plant in the polytunnel but it also has a tiny melon and it's already the last day of august. Two of my best outdoor plants with a small makeshift plastic tunnel to help mature the fruit. The two melons that h...

 Melons. I started growing melons a few years ago. Since about 4 years now i have switched to growing Joseph Lofthouse's muskmelon landrace. I am trying to adapt it to my conditions here in brittany. I am a big fan of Joseph's landrace way of growing vegetables and it makes a lot of sense to me. This being said the melons haven't been growing very well for me yet but this is because he lives in a very different climate than me and he grows way higher numbers of plants than i do. He talks about the magic of his landrace gardening technique usually kicking in in the third year and since i grow a lot less plants than he does it will probably take a lot longer. First batch of melons growing I had a really good plant 3 years ago that gave me 6 ripe nice juicy melons, much better than all the other plants. I kept all the seed. Maybe it was a good year. 2 years ago i had a fruit that was so tasty and sugary, eventhough it was not ripe, it really stood out from all the others. But ...