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'Noir des Carmes' Melons

Sub-Category:	Muskmelon/Cantaloupe

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Muskmelon/cantaloupe. French heirloom. Vines bear 2-pound, deeply-lobed, smooth-skinned, deep-orange-fleshed fruit with dark green (almost black) skin that ripens orange mottled with green. Also known as 'Black Rock'.
Days To Maturity:	75
Seed Sources:	Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

Rating Summary

Overall: (4.0 Stars) Taste: (5.0 Stars) Yield: (3.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (4.0 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 1

KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease

Reviewed on 08/15/2007 by MAldrich - A novice gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Greenville, South Carolina, United States Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This melon has buttery flesh with a taste not too unlike a traditional muskmelon. It managed to put off about three fruit per vine and ripen them in drought and hundred degree weather. I would grow again.

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