Gold Melon seed Cucumis melo

LATIN NAME: Cucumis melo

COMMON NAME: Gold Melon

The gold melon is the fine, golden, juicy melon of the warm summer gardens. The trailing, annual vine carries the large, lobed, rough leaves, and the small, yellow flowers open through the warm season, to be followed by the round, golden-yellow fruits with the firm, sweet, fragrant flesh. The melon is one of the great tastes of the summer, eaten fresh and chilled, and the golden fruits are a fine, generous crop of the warm, sunny garden. It is a plant of the deep, rich, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The melon has carved a quiet but solid place in the plant science, and the vine has been studied for the round, golden-yellow fruits and the firm, sweet, fragrant flesh within. The way the melon has been bred and grown across the warm regions for thousands of years has been studied steadily, and it keeps showing up in the work on the melon crops, the breeding and the fruit quality. The large, lobed leaves and the small, yellow flowers have also made it a fine garden vine, and the golden melon is a regular subject of the studies of the cucumber family and the sweet fruits of the summer.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The gold melon does a lot of work in the kitchen and the garden. The round, golden-yellow fruits are one of the great tastes of the summer, eaten fresh and chilled, sliced into the salads and pressed into the juices, and the sweet, fragrant flesh is prized across the warm regions. The trailing vine is an easy, generous crop of the sunny garden and the greenhouse, and the golden fruits are a fine, cheerful presence ripening on the ground. It has been written up in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the fine, sweet flesh and the golden fruits, and it is a fine, easy plant of the deep, rich, well-drained garden.

The gold melon is one of the great tastes of the summer, and the round, golden-yellow fruits ripen to the firm, sweet, fragrant flesh that is eaten fresh and chilled. The trailing vine is an easy, generous crop of the warm, sunny garden, and the small, yellow flowers are followed by the golden fruits that perfume the warm corner of the garden.

To grow the gold melon from seed, sow the flat seeds at a depth of about a centimetre in pots of moist, free-draining soil, two seeds to each pot, keep them in a warm, bright spot and water gently. The seedlings show themselves within a week or two and grow on fast. With the sun, the warmth and the deep, rich, well-drained ground, the golden, fragrant fruits will be ready through the summer.

Hearts of Gold melons are packed with delicious, thick flesh! Flesh is orange in color,round fruit weighing 1-2kg/3-4 lbs. with deep salmon coloured flesh that is thick, firm with a sweet