Description
Melon ‘Noire des Carmes’ – French Heritage Variety
10 seeds
An early French heritage melon, Noire des Carmes produces medium-sized round fruits with dark green skin and sweet, fragrant orange flesh. Traditionally grown in monastery gardens, this variety is believed to have been cultivated by Carmelite monks in France as early as the 17th century.
Known for its reliability and relatively early ripening, it is particularly well suited to greenhouse growing and shorter summers.
Key characteristics
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Early French heritage melon
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Medium-sized round fruits
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Dark green skin
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Sweet, aromatic orange flesh
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Well suited to cooler growing conditions
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Botanical name: Cucumis melo
Growing information
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Sow under cover in spring
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Grow in a greenhouse or warm, sheltered outdoor position
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Requires fertile soil and regular watering
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Harvest when fruits are fragrant and slip easily from the vine
In the kitchen
Noire des Carmes is excellent for fresh eating and summer desserts, offering a rich sweetness even in less favourable summers.
This packet contains enough seed to produce enough for the whole family , These seeds will be packaged in clear sealed bags, fully labeled with all EU seed requirements, photo, quantity of seed, packaged date etc. These will then be enclosed in our pictorial envelope together with growing tips and hints and suggestions for successful germination
- .All the seed we supply is professional quality seed which has been fully tested for germination and we grow every single variety ourselves to test viability, taste, special growing requirements and of course customer popularity.
- Delivered from our French organic Farm
- Non treated Non GMO seed
- Beautiful unique JandL Packaging and growing instructions
- Approx. 10 seeds per packet — open-pollinated, heritage variety
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