Anyone growing melons on trellis?

Novel idea but a real PITA. Melons, cantaloupes included are pretty heavy and it's best to support them in some way as they grow larger so they don't break the stem and hit the ground.

I did this one year a long time ago when women were still wearing pantyhose and I used old hose from the wife to put the melon in and tying the hose to the trellis. The hose expanded as the cantaloupes grew but it wound up being more of a PITA than I was wanting to deal with.

If you have ground space, grow them on the ground and put hay or pieces of cardboard under the melons to keep them off the bare ground.

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good to know

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Check out some u-tube videos to get a better idea about the process. There's lots of them out there that show different processes to support melons on a trelis if you decide to try that growing method.

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I tried this last year. Melons didn’t like where my trellis was and went the other way. Each day when I’d get home from work, they’d have already anchored to a section of ground and manhandling them was getting risky.

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Betting dollars to donuts they were growing in the direction of the sun that your garden got most of the day.

I did cantalopes on a trellis a few years ago. Supported them using an old mask from the dark years and they came out great. Just had to make sure to slightly rotate them around occasionally to keep them from growing lopsided.