Petit Gris de Rennes

Season Overview

Description

High-yielding melon with fruits between 500 and 800 g, which ripen well even in less warm conditions. Fruit ripeness is given when cracks form around the fruit stalk and it can be easily detached. Sweet, orange flesh, early ripening and aromatic.

Growing tips

Growing and planting melons need quite a lot of heat. It is best to let them tend on the ground and put the fruit on a wooden board or straw mulch. At the earliest unsprout after the 4th leaf. Then side shoots grown from the leaf axils, in turn, cut after the 3rd leaf.

Details

Plant distance

50 cm

Row spacing

100 cm

Seeding depth

2 cm