Either melon is a great choice, as both are low in calories and full of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Both cantaloupe and honeydew melon are good choices, though cantaloupe contains more antioxidants.
A good choice to reduce your risk of foodborne illness is the variety of melon with the honeydew melon rind and cantaloupe flesh.
Honeydew melon has a smooth, light-colored rind and green flesh, while cantaloupe has a darker, netted rind and orange flesh. Both are sweet and nutritious, but cantaloupe contains more vitamin C and provitamin A. It also carries a greater risk of being contaminated with harmful bacteria. Regardless of whether you choose cantaloupe or honeydew melon, including a wide variety of fruits — including melon — in your diet is a great way to promote overall health, increase antioxidant activity, and decrease inflammation in your body.
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Thanks for Sharing! Now like us on Facebook. Want more where that came from? By Taryn Pire Jul. Cantaloupe Scientific name: Cucumis melo var.
Honeydew Scientific name: Cucumis melo L. Winter Melon or Ash Gourd Scientific name: Benincasa hispida Taste: Vegetal, refreshing, slightly grassy Despite being harvested mostly during the summer, winter melon gets its name for its long shelf life, a result of its durable waxy skin. Persian Melon Scientific name: Cucumis melo Taste: Sweet, crunchy A cultivar of the musk melon family, Persian melons are elongated and smooth with yellow banded skin and orange flesh.
Galia Melon Scientific name: Cucumis melo var. Canary Melons Scientific name: Cucumis melo L. Crenshaw Melon Scientific name: Cucumis melo var. Ananas Melon Scientific name: Cucumis melo var. A modified bedshaper is used to form a ridge on each side of the plant row, leaving a suitable area for planting. A inch-wide piece of embossed clear plastic is then used to cover the plant row, leaving a 5 to 6 inch-high space between the planted row and the plastic cover.
Mean temperatures may be increased F depending on time of planting and sunlight availability and intensity. Care should be exercised that crops are not damaged from excessive heat. Covers should be removed from most crops when temperatures under the cover exceed 90 F for more than three consecutive days. Good management practices are essential if optimum fertilizer responses are to be realized.
These practices include use of recommended varieties, selection of adapted soils, weed control, disease and insect control, good seed bed preparation, proper seeding methods, and timely harvest. Because of the influence of soil type, climatic conditions, and other cultural practices, crop response from fertilizer may not always be accurately predicted.
Soil test results, field experience, and knowledge of specific crop requirements help determine the nutrients needed and the rate of application. The fertilizer program should insure adequate levels of all nutrients. Optimum fertilization is essential for top quality, yields, and returns. Recommended soil sampling procedures should be followed in order to estimate fertilizer needs.
The OSU Extension Service agent in your county can provide you with soil sampling instructions and soil sample bags and information sheets. Recommendations are based on a row spacing of 60 inches. With decreased row spacings fertilizer rates should be increased. Apply one-half the nitrogen at or just prior to planting and the rest when vines begin to "run".
There is less danger if the band application is split into two bands. The danger is aggravated as the band comes closer to the seed. The danger is greater with sandy than with finer textured soil. Immediate irrigation at the first sign of burn should reduce further injury.
There is more possibility of damage to seedlings on acid soils where the pH is below 5. Phosphorus fertilizer should be banded at planting for vigorous early seedling growth. Bands should be located 2" to the side and 2" below the seed. Specific information on soil test procedures is available from the Dept. Potassium should be applied before planting or banded at planting time. S is sometimes contained in fertilizers used to supply other nutrients such as N, P, and K but may not be present in sufficient quantity.
Plants absorb S in the form of sulfate. Fertilizer materials supply sulfur in the form of sulfate and elemental S. Elemental S must convert to sulfate in the soil before the S becomes avail able to plants. The conversion of elemental S to sulfate is usually rapid for fine ground less than 40 mesh material in warm moist soil.
Sulfur in the sulfate form can be applied at planting time. Some S fertilizer materials such as elemental S and ammonium sulfate have an acidifying effect on soil.
CAUTION: Many muskmelon and specialty melons are sensitive to foliar applications of sulfur used to control a number of foliar diseases. This sensitivity is cultivar dependent. A number of varieties resistant to sulfur-induced foliar damage are available. Applications of foliar sulfur to non-resistant varieties can result in severe foliar damage.
When the soil test value is below 1. Magnesium can also be supplied in dolomite, which is a liming material and will reduce soil acidity. Dolomite should be incorporated into the seedbed at the rate of In general, boron deficiencies are uncommon. Boron should be applied uniformly to the field as a spray or broadcast. Never band B fertilizer. Zinc deficiencies are uncommon in Willamette Valley soils.
Muskmelons are sensitive to soil acidity. Maintain soil pH above 6. Soil pH levels below 5. Lime applications are suggested when the soil pH is 5. The liming rate is based on score lime.
Lime should be mixed into the soil at least several weeks before planting. A lime application is effective over several years. Some soils may have a fairly high SMP buffer value over 6. This condition can be caused by the application of acidifying fertilizer. In this case the low pH value is temporary and the pH of the soil will increase as the fertilizer completes its reaction with the soil. This temporary "active" acidity from fertilizer is encountered following recent applications of most N fertilizer materials.
Acidifying fertilizers also have a "long term" acidifying effect on soil that is cumulative and leads to lower SMP buffer readings.
Sandy soils to which fertilizers have not been recently applied sometimes record low pH and high SMP buffer values. For acid soils low in Mg less than 0. Dolomite and ground lime stone have about the same ability to neutralize soil acidity.
The possibility of seedling injury from the band application of fertilizer is less when the soil pH is 5. Some Willamette Valley experiments have shown decreased uptake of phosphorus from band applications of phosphorus when the pH approaches 5.
Lime applications should be broadcast, preferably in the fall, and incorporated into the seedbed. Do not plow lime down leaving the surface soil unlimed. Avoid excessive soil moisture.
As might be expected, the effect of soil moisture on sugar content of muskmelon is particularly serious when prolonged periods of saturated or near-saturated soil moisture occur during the final stages of fruit development. Other conditions that limit photosynthesis during this time would accentuate the excessive moisture effect on muskmelon quality. This effect may differ with variety; thus growers should select less responsive varieties when excessive soil moisture may be a problem.
Planting on beds is recommended for soils with potential drainage problems, and reduce irrigations after fruit begins to mature. Approximate summer irrigation needs for the Hermiston area are: 3. Research has shown that the use of drip irrigation under black plastic mulch is superior to sprinkler irrigation with black plastic mulch.
Yields usually increase dramatically. This was true of 10 of 13 varieties tested, and particularly true of later-maturing types.
Soil type does not affect the amount of total water needed, but does dictate frequency of water application. Lighter soils need more frequent water applications, but less water applied per application. Melons are often grown with furrow irrigation in eastern Oregon. Water soluble polyacrylamide PAM is useful for flocculating soil particles in irrigation furrows and reducing erosion of soil from the furrow.
Good yields of large lb melons will range from to fruit per acre. Smaller fruited lb varieties will range from 12, to 15, fruit per acre assuming excellent cultural practices and pollination. These melons should be firm, well netted, well formed and pulled at full slip for best quality.
For distant shipment, less mature cantaloupes are picked at "half slip" but when the stem attachment area is smooth, rounded and slightly depressed.
During the early part of the season harvest every other day. Later in the season, daily picking is best. Some varieties are non-slip types and have to be cut from the vine. Muskmelons develop their highest dessert quality a day or more after harvest, even though the sugar content does not increase. Therefore, muskmelons attain their highest quality in fruits that have been harvested when they have reached their maximum sugar content.
These high sugar levels, obtained from harvesting muskmelons at a more mature stage, result in lower shelf life in muskmelons intended for long distance shipping. Maintain healthy, green foliage until final harvest. The edible quality of muskmelons is frequently undesirable, particularly those harvested the last half of the picking season, because the sugar-producing photosynthetic potential of the leaves is not maintained through harvest.
Drought, nutrient deficiencies, and weed, insect, and disease stresses can seriously limit the plant's capacity to produce and translocate sugars to developing fruit.
Almost half of the final concentration of sugars is accumulated during the last week of fruit maturation. During this "critical" few days, the fruit passes from immature green to ripe full slip. Thus, spray programs, irrigations, and nutrient supply must be maintained to "keep the plant going" during this critical last week.
Plants are naturally weakened and more susceptible to moisture, nutrient, and biological stresses during heavy fruiting.
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