Sweet creamy melon with thin skin, orange flesh, and teardrop shape; selected under dry farmed conditions in Northern CA. This is a favorite of the OSU Dry Farming Project crew and yielded an average of 36 lbs per plant, with a planting density of 30 sqft per plant in the 2019 dry farmed melon variety trial.
Eel River
Type: cantaloupe
Species: Cucumis melo
Availability: Seed Revolution Now!
Breeder/Steward: Bill Reynolds
Recommended by: Dry Farming Institute
Location of Variety Evaluation: Northern California & Willamette Valley in Oregon
Variety Evaluation Info: OSU Dry Farming Project 2019 Melon Trial Report
