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Farmville, Virginia (mfowler@hsc.edu)

Just a thought...do watermelon growers shade giant watermelons the same way we do pumpkins or does it matter?

4/8/2007 7:07:54 AM

Cameron,ontario Team Lunatic

Yes, I put a sheet on them just like a pumpkin.

Phil

4/8/2007 7:27:34 AM

Rochester, Minnesota

I use 9 gauge wire loops, gunny sacks, and clothes pins. It's the same wire loops I use for the Remay blankets in the early spring.

4/9/2007 10:22:29 AM

Rochester, Minnesota

I didn't answer the other half of that. Yes I really think it does matter.

It is very easy to see at competitions which melons are shaded and which are not. You see definite growth restrictions on unshaded melons.

4/9/2007 1:11:22 PM

Circleville ,OH.

Same here a sheet over the top!

4/10/2007 12:48:15 AM