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'Mountain Sweet Yellow' Melons

Sub-Category:	Watermelon

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Yellow-fleshed, heirloom watermelon. Vines bear 20- to 35-pound fruit with dark-yellow flesh and black seeds.
Days To Maturity:	95-100
Seed Sources:	Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

Rating Summary

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

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Number of Reviews: 1

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

Reviewed on 08/11/2009 by Rayrose - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Lexington, South Carolina, United States Frost Free Season: More than 203 days Soil Texture: Clay Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
This is the yellow fleshed version of mountain sweet red. It's a long season melon, so I would not recommend it for cooler climates. It's an excellent melon and looks and tastes very much like orange flesh tendersweet and tender gold. I grew all 3 melons in the same patch, and had to trace each melon back to the plant, in order to tell them apart. More people should try this melon. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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