Melons

Ananas Melon. Ananas means pineapple in Italian and this netted melon has the aroma of pineapple. Large fruit on a vigorous and productive plant. Netted melon with yellow sweet flesh. 90-95 days. 5 gram pack. To see our growing guide for...

Melon. Charentais. Classic European melon. 90 days. Sweet orange flesh, thin skin. Fairly easy to grow. Ripe when small pointed leaf on stem where attached to fruit becomes pale in color. 5 gram packet. To see our growing guide for melons, click...

Climbing Sugar Melon - Rampicante Zuccherino. 2-2 1/2 pound melon with very sweet salmon-orange flesh. Early: 65-70 days from transplants, 80 days from direct seed. Will grow on the ground but also climbs a trellis very well. In italy, this melon is...

Netted melon. Sweet orange flesh. Some netting like a canteloupe, but not a canteloupe. Said to be the melon to eat with Parma ham. 80 or so days. 5 gram packet. To see our growing guide for melons, click here.

A netted melon with sweet orange flesh. This is a favorite for eating with Parma ham. 80 days to maturity. 2.5 gram pack.  To see our growing guide for melons, click here.

Melon Valencia. Oval fruit. Dark green skin, sweet white flesh. 4-4 1/2 pounds. Fairly late at 105 days from direct seed; 10 days less from transplants. 5 gram packet. To see our growing guide for melons, click here.

Not the most beautiful, but one of the tastiest. Italians call it brutto ma buono - ugly but good. Orange and green skin with scales, but great tasting orange flesh. One large grower in California says the fine dining restaurant in San Francisco can't...

Melone Giallo da Inverno. Yellow winter melon. Late, vigorous plant. Very consistent and productive. Round fruit with smooth skin. White, sweet, perfumed flesh. Considered a good storage melon. 5 gram packet. 35-40 seeds. To see our growing guide for...

This Japanese melon is so great that we had to carry it. A California melon grower reports it is one of the sweetest and best melons he has grown. These seeds are hard to get and very expensive. This is a hybrid seed. 75-85 days depending on your climate...

Janosik watermelon comes to us from Poland; it is named in honor of a folklore hero, a Robin Hood type of character. It is one of the very best yellow watermelons, with crisp flesh, never mealy, and very sweet. Melons are generally round, though some may...

Sugar Baby is an heirloom variety, introduced in 1956, that has remained popular because of its compact size and sweet flavor. It is considered an icebox melon because the fruits are small enough to fit in the icebox, or what we call a refrigerator. The...