Melon variety Sugar Baby has sweet fruits with a dark green skin and salmon coloured flesh, weighs up to 3 kg. A soil covering of black mulching material favours growth and ripening. Outdoor cultivation only possible in warm climates, otherwise the fruit won't ripen. Don't harvest too soon, only when the runners and fruit stem have dried out. Water melons can be kept for about ten days at 8-10°C.
Cultivation
Raise in seed bed: for greenhouse: from end of March for planting out from mid of April, start harvesting from mid of July
for open ground: end of April for planting out from mid of May, start harvesting from August
Sowing depth: 2-3 cmSeed germination temperature: 23-26 °CPlanting distance: 100 x 50-100 cmOptimal amount of plants: 1-2 plants/m²
Any other commercial resellers, who for example are filling up seeds themselves, are kindly asked to address their enquiry via telephone or email directly to us: +49 (0) 6035 1899-0.
