A couple gardeners have let me know that Honeydews are Honeydews . . . I guess we shouldn't really want or expect it to be any other way.

It is encouraging that the plant breeders continue to work with melons and that, some of the direction, is towards earlier-maturing varieties. I suspect that this just goes along with getting the size of the fruit down a little.

Probably, it is nearly a rule-of-thumb that the size of fruit but more particularly, the size of the plants, go together with earliness to mature a crop. Not absolutely always the case but often enuf.

Imma not gonna go back to Minnesota Midgets however. Nope. Not gonna do it.

Steve