Dont let hybrid scare you off when it comes to melons.
Many times I have gotten sprouts from store bought cantaloupe seeds in the yard and used them to grow melons.
They were smaller but so sweet you couldn't stand it.
I have yet to buy one from the store in many years that even came close to being a good melon.
If you see a melon like this in the store and the green vine is still attached to the melon and wont come off it isn't ripe nor will it get ripe.
Ripe honey dew melons aren't hard and green they are yellowish and a wee bit soft.
As for farmers markets sometimes you can get good ones there or along side the roads next to the farms that grow them.
Or a big trailer parked at the town square in some rural country town.
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