Banana melons have a taste that suggests both banana and cantaloupe and has been described as both spicy and sweet. This ...

I told her that I was thinking of giving up on heirloom tomatoes because they ... So around 1840, a friend of Lawson’s sent some seeds to other melon farmers across the South, including one ...

Crown melons are one of the most renowned varieties. Go into a high-end fruit store in Tokyo, and you're likely to see their signature stickers. The melons are only grown in Shizuoka prefecture ...

Native Americans have grown food in the desert for ages, but many tribal agricultural traditions have disappeared. Now, ...

By the 1950s, even the Burpee seed catalogue, which helped put the Montreal melon on the map ... American foodies and farmers rediscovering heirloom crops, which they prized for being more ...

Is there a ‘secret’ to growing water melons? This is the question one reader asked me recently. The answer is yes. Start with the right variety specific to your growing area. Watermelons come ...

The seeds of these heirloom, or heritage plants, are conserved at their facility near Ryton. Part seed library, part museum, part botanical garden, the organisation distributes seeds to members ...

First, some seed companies have dropped older heirloom varieties in favor of newer hybridized ... If you wish to save seeds from crops like cucumbers, melons, and squash, which are pollinated by ...

NatureSweet introduces its award-winning Adora Heirloom Tomato to select stores in the U.S. starting in mid-November ...

Melon seeds are available in supermarkets, health food stores and ethnic grocers – or can be obtained directly from fresh melons and left to dry. Melon seeds are lightly dry-roasted and eaten as ...

Harvest Moon: Cut a hole in the bottom of a medium heirloom pumpkin; scoop out the pulp and seeds. Cut a round opening ... save scraps. Use a melon baller to carve out two round eyeballs from ...