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Old July 9, 2017   #18
Rockporter
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Originally Posted by imp View Post
For smaller melons, I have used pantihose, for watermelon or other large melons, an old T shirt, wire tied at two corners closely to the trellis, the other side ( neck and hem) sometimes tied to the trellis with two or three wire ties. twine to gape a bit, for the melon to be able to grow.
I searched and searched for the huge bag of old cotton t shirts I knew I had bagged up but could not find it. So, I either gave them away or threw them away making them unavailable to me. I was surely wanting to try that mode of support.
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