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Title: Melons for the Passionate Grower by Amy Goldman, Victor Schrager, Doyle Partners ISBN: 1-57965-213-1 Publisher: Artisan Sales Pub. Date: 25 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: 3 1/2 stars, very interesting but could be better
Comment: I bought the book in hopes of learning about various hard to find melons. This book has an amazing variety of melons but I fond it to be rather light on the amount of information provided to the inexperienced new grower.
You get several pages of tips on growing and harvesting (I don't think it's quite detailed enough for the novice), a page on saving seeds, two on hand pollination (these were interesting), and a couple of pages of recipes to use your harvest in.
The main part of the book is sort of art book like to me with a few pages of type histries and several pages of artistic photos of various melons. Each of the melon pictures is identified as figure#1-100, you'll find a corresponding section in the back of the book giving info on size, weight and so on. At the end of the book there's a source listing for places to get the seeds of some, not all, of what is shown in the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT BOOK
Comment: if your into melons this book is well worth the money,the pictures or beautiful and the information is very informative but
to the point.
Rating: 5
Summary: Every kind of melon under the sun--and then some!
Comment: The melons covered in the book range from the true cantaloupe to muskmelons (what Americans call cantaloupe) to casabas to Asian melons (not sweet like those to which Americans are accustomed) to those that aren't tasty (but are valued for other reasons) to every color flesh and seed, size and shape of watermelon under the sun!
How about a melon to scent a person or a room, a melon to stand in for a cucumber in a salad (bitterfree, crisper, and will set fruit all summer long), a melon that looks for all the world like a winter squash, a bi-colored-flesh watermelon, or a watermelon whose skin turns a bright yellow when it is ripe?
These are the Queen Anne's pocket melon or the D'Alger melon, the Snake melons, the Prescott Fond Blanc melon, the Colorado Striped Tarahumara watermelon, and the Golden Midget watermelon.
Don't have room to grow your own melons? Then the pages about how to select a melon, even at market, will be invaluable--already I have been able to improve my chances of coming home with a riper melon from the store.
I have one tiny complaint about the content of the book: there are several varieties that are listed with "Seed Source: None". I assume these melons that are not available from commercial seed sources are available among the Seed Savers Exchange organization members, but that is never mentioned.
My other complaint about the book is technical: it's not what most of us would consider a "hardback". It has a firm cover, but it's not a hardback in the traditional textbook sense.
All in all, a very lovely book, one that makes you wish you had 10 acres in which to just grow melons. It has been an engrossing read and re-read, an indispensable book in planning our future forays into melon-growing.
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Title: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden (Smith & Hawken) by Carolyn J. Male, Frank Iannotti, Kent Whealy ISBN: 0761114009 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Edible Heirloom Garden by Rosalind Creasy ISBN: 9625932941 Publisher: Periplus Editions Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Cucumbers, Melons & Gourds From Seed To Supper by Jack W Hazelton ISBN: 1928907032 Publisher: Jack's Bookshelf, Inc. Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy ISBN: 1882424581 Publisher: Seed Saver Pubns Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Garden Seed Inventory: An Inventory of Seed Catalogs Listing All Non-Hybrid Vegetable Seeds Available in the United States and Canada by Kent Whealy, Seed Savers Exchange ISBN: 1882424557 Publisher: Seed Saver Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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