Picking (harvesting) Cantaloupe
Picking (harvesting) Cantaloupe
You can tell when cantaloupes are ripe and ready to be picked when the outside skin starts to turn from green to yellow. A ripe melon easily slips off the vine where it is attached. Caution needs to be taken while harvesting and when you are working in and around melon plants so as to not step on vines. The vines will most likely have other melons attached to them that need additional time to grow and ripen. Checking the plants every 2 to 3 days for ripening melons will help ensure you reap the maximum results. It is important to refrigerate melons if you intend to store them for a few days before eating. Ripe cantaloupes do not store well for more that a week once taken off the vine and should be eaten as soon as possible.
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Tags: Cantaloupe, Melons, Ripe Melon, Vines
June 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Jeanne – I love rock melons (that is what we call them here in Australia) and they are such a summer treat. Grapes and rock melon are our absolute favourites. Unfortunately we can’t grow them where we live as the growing season is just not long enough. You are making me wish it were summer again… as if I needed a reason to wish that. Thanks for the great sensations as I closed my eyes and thought about the smell, the taste… the texture. mmmmmm rock melon.
June 11th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Hi Cate, I couldn’t agree more about the flavor of melons and the possibilities for combining with other types of fruit. We like to cut them in 1/2, hollow them out by cubing the insides and then mix the melon cubes with grapes, bananas, orange slices and whatever else might be around and load it all back into the hollowed out melon half. Makes a fun, delicious and nutritious snack.
Putting it on my list to make this weekend
Jeanne
June 15th, 2009 at 4:13 am
We are so naughty – our favourite is to sprinkle it with icing sugar. yum