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Melons for the Passionate Grower: With Practical Advice on Growing, Pollinating, Picking, and Preparing an Extraordinary Harvest [Hardcover]

Amy Goldman (Author), Victor Schrager (Photographer)
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Your local market probably carries only honeydew, cantaloupe, and watermelon, but it's the heirloom melons of the world that contain both remarkable succulence and the critical germ plasm that may ward off future plant diseases. Amy Goldman's tribute to the magnificent family of melons, Melons for the Passionate Grower is both a celebration of the rich gifts of these fruits and a cautionary tale of how many of these treats nearly went extinct.

Before you get too caught up in the gorgeous photos and fascinating histories of these gems, note the seed company list at the end of the book--you can try to grow all the plants you read about. The introductory section includes detailed instructions on hand pollination, ripening, and a few recipes like watermelon salad with onion, pepper, oil, and vinegar in addition to the sweet melon.

The pages that fall in the middle are mini temples devoted to individual melons. Often romantic histories are included next to the glossy photos--who can resist tales of the Hungarian noble who wrapped her beloved sweet melons in her furs? With varieties like the slender, crunchy Snake and the astonishingly sweet Bidwell Casaba, learning about these glorious fruits will keep you fascinated for the rest of your gardening days. --Jill Lightner

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There's more to the world of melons than just the cantaloupe and honeydew, but this may not be true for long: many varieties are "on the brink of extinction," according to cultivator and collector Goldman. This handsome volume documents unusual types of melon like the Collective Farm Woman (originally from Ukraine) and the serpent-shaped Snake melon with lavish color photos and playful descriptions. Goldman also instructs readers on how to pollinate, grow and harvest these plants; includes a list of commercial sources; and throws in a few recipes and plenty of trivia ("the Chinese grow more watermelons than anyone else but... they eat the seeds and often discard the melons").
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK, Dec 23 2002
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This review is from: Melons for the Passionate Grower: With Practical Advice on Growing, Pollinating, Picking, and Preparing an Extraordinary Harvest (Hardcover)
if your into melons this book is well worth the money,the pictures or beautiful and the information is very informative but
to the point.
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3.0 out of 5 stars melon porn, Aug 1 2009
This review is from: Melons for the Passionate Grower: With Practical Advice on Growing, Pollinating, Picking, and Preparing an Extraordinary Harvest (Hardcover)
This book is great for anyone wanting greater knowledge of the variety of melons one can grow. It's full of beautiful photos of extraordinary melons. The pictures are so sensuous you can almost feel, smell and taste the melons.

There is a little bit on growing, seed saving as well as a little history about the one hundred melons covered by this book. Also, seed sources are given.

The reason I give this book three stars is because its subtitle suggests that there is more than a cursory explanation about growing these luscious fruits. The info on growing them gives no more detail than a quick internet search would turn up, or the kind of description you might get in the home and garden section of a newspaper. Surely the author who has a passion for researching and growing these melons for so many years must have a little more information about cultivation, pest management, fertilizers, etc. that would be useful to those of us with less than perfect climates and conditions in our home gardens. In my opinion this is not a book for the passionate grower but for the passionate reader/looker!
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4.0 out of 5 stars 3 1/2 stars, very interesting but could be better, Nov 3 2003
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A. Burchfield (Conway, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Melons for the Passionate Grower: With Practical Advice on Growing, Pollinating, Picking, and Preparing an Extraordinary Harvest (Hardcover)
I bought the book in hopes of learning about various hard to find melons. This book has an amazing variety of melons but I fond it to be rather light on the amount of information provided to the inexperienced new grower.
You get several pages of tips on growing and harvesting (I don't think it's quite detailed enough for the novice), a page on saving seeds, two on hand pollination (these were interesting), and a couple of pages of recipes to use your harvest in.
The main part of the book is sort of art book like to me with a few pages of type histries and several pages of artistic photos of various melons. Each of the melon pictures is identified as figure#1-100, you'll find a corresponding section in the back of the book giving info on size, weight and so on. At the end of the book there's a source listing for places to get the seeds of some, not all, of what is shown in the book.
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