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Eel River Melon

$3.50

Sweet creamy melon with thin skin, orange flesh, and teardrop shape; selected under dry farmed conditions in Northern CA.

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Categories: Melon, Starts
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Description

Sweet creamy melon with thin skin, orange flesh, and teardrop shape; selected under dry farmed conditions along the Eel River 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.

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