Wayside Market cantaloupe
Cucumis melo 'Wayside Market'
AAS Winner 1939
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
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Wayside Market' cantaloupe (Cucumis melo 'Wayside Market') is a climbing vegetable for the cottage garden and the food garden. It is typically grown as an annual. It is tender to cold, and the first hard frost will kill it. This plant likes full sun and average to moist, loamy or clay soil. It grows at a moderate pace and blooms from early to late summer. The flowers attract bees.
Pairs well with Pineapple Tomato tomato, Fern Leaf dill, and Flowerburst Red Shades yarrow.