Solanum muricatum Pepino Melon
Solanum muricatum Pepino
1 plant
Delivery height 20-30 cm
Not deliverable in: IE
Special Price £18.00 Regular Price £21.95
Stock 85
SKU
A00015
A shrubby fruit plant grown for its sweet edible soft and fleshy fruit or just as an ornamental plant for its foliage! They’re ideal for growing.........
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A shrubby fruit plant grown for its sweet edible soft and fleshy fruit or just as an ornamental plant for its foliage! They’re ideal for growing in a container in the greenhouse or a sunny conservatory. It has also become quite a popular vegetable in salads or stews. The multi-coloured flowers appear in summer and the fruits follow a few months later. You will be rewarded with plenty of tasty edible pepino dulce fruit, that resemble a melon in colour and its flavour is a succulent mixture of honeydew and cucumber, it's sometimes called pepino melon or melon pear. It's supplied in a 7 cm pot.
- 1 x Solanum muricatum Melon Pépino
| Botanical name | Solanum muricatum Pepino |
|---|---|
| Category | Solanum |
| Delivered as | Pot plant |
| aa_height | 20-30cm |
| Qty | 1x |
| Flowers | No |
| Flower period | Spring-Summer |
| Fragrant | No |
| Cutflowers | No |
| Flower colour | Yellow |
| Fruits | No |
| Edible | No |
| Harvest time | July - September |
| Location | Sunny |
| Hardy | No |
| Groundcovering | No |
| Naturalizing | No |
| Plant spacing | 35cm |
| Plant Depth | 10cm |
| Preferred Soil | Well drained soil |
| Mature width | 30cm - 40cm |
| Poisonous | No |
How to take care of Solanum muricatum Pepino Melon
Treat much like tomato plants. Grow in full sun, water regularly. Use well-drained soil. Nor hardy so must be care over winter in greenhouse or conservatory. Feed the plants as follows: give an organic based fertilizer, such as dried manure on the top soil one week after planting and allow it to gradually soak into the ground, then every two weeks a liquid fertilizer such as Phostrogen as a foliar feed. Melons need plenty of water, feeding and sun. It will not tolerate shade.
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