Sugar Gold
Variety
created by Sven W. at 20.02.2021
Seeds
Not Available
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
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Delicious fruity tasting egg-shaped pear melons Pepino (Solanum muricatum) are a wonderful snack fruit, which at the same time looks peppy and unusual. They fit well on balconies and patios, as well as in miniature gardens. From pretty purple-yellow flowers, the bushy growing plants develop many yellow-orange, purple-striped and -spotted fruits. They reach the size and shape of goose eggs. The flesh tastes pleasantly sweet aromatic, about between pears and melons. The fruits taste best fresh, cut into pieces or served chilled in the form of fruit salad. But you can also prepare from it juice and jam.
Non hybrid
Not frost resistant
Can only withstand 12 degrees plus, so must be wintered indoors (cuttings) or reseeded. Grow protected from rain. Otherwise similar growing conditions as tomatoes. (nightshade)
Light requirement
Semi-shaded
Water requirement
Wet
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Seeding distance
60 cm
Row spacing
80 cm
Seeding depth
1 cm
Brown rot
Spider mites
Leaf-miner flies
Ten-lined potato beetle
Aphids
White fly