Anna's Charentais melon
Cucumis melo 'Annas Charentais'
USDA zones2 to 11
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Climbing
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Soil types
- Loam, clay
- Soil pH
- Acid, neutral
Garden uses
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Notes
'Anna's Charentais' melon (Cucumis melo 'Anna's Charentais') is a climbing vegetable for food gardens, cottage gardens, and borders. It is typically grown as an annual. Frost will kill it, so set it out only after the last frost in spring. This plant likes full sun and average to moist, loamy or clay soil. It is a specialty French melon that stores longer than many others. Bees and butterflies visit its blooms from early to late summer.
Pairs well with Cracker Jack watermelon, Dukat dill, and Blue Beech tomato.