I have grown Jenny Lind, produces ok, but near the bottom of my list for quality of fruit. Cantaloupes are much slower starting than squash. My crooknecks (Sundance, Daisy Mae) are setting fruit, cantaloupes have not put out the first runners yet.
Dates to maturity for caulilower, broccoli, cabbage are from transplant. Cheddar is listed as a long season cultivar ( 80+ days ) Don't know where Pinetree got their info. Your plants look large enough to start heading anytime. When they do they are fast.
All your plants look good, looks like you are in for a bumper crop.

I have grown Jenny Lind many times and Minnesota Midget from time to time.

I notice that you're in zone 6. I think you must be doing pretty well with them because my zone 7 melons are only slightly further on.

Melons like to be warm and that cold snap we suffered in much of the country a week or so ago slowed them down. My tomatoes soldiered along despite the chilly nights, but my peppers and melons just sat there and sulked instead of growing.

I don't know what to think about Minnesota Midget -- I've had uneven results with it -- but Jenny Lind is a splendid, little melon that has done very well for me in unpromising conditions. Give it some time and some warm weather. :-)

Thanks, I guess I've just never seen a cucurbit grow so slowly - about 2 weeks for seedling emergence indoors, then no true leaves for about 3 weeks after that seemed sort of excessive for indoor sowing. Those tiny little leaves added to my alarm - I was wondering if it was stunted or something, but this is my first time growing these smaller melons.

Farmerdilla, I chose these two melon varieties for their smaller fruit size (hubby doesn't like melons so 1-2 serving size is best) and shorter vines. Are there any other small melons you like better?

Interesting that other places list Cheddar as a longer season plant. I bought the seed because Pinetree emphasized its earliness, and I wanted the cauliflower to be out of the beds early to make way for the summer crops.

I am not really into the 1-2 lb class melons, but the best that I have grown in that class is the old Rockyford Netted Gem, Some folks have apparently renamed it Eden's Gem or Eden's is a variation. Small green fleshed cantaloupe. Slightly larger versions are also availabe but basicly the same sold as Rocky Ford Green Fleshed. There is also a Rocky Ford, yellow flesh. There is a new hybrid on the market Tasty Bites, which sounds tempting. I use to grow Sweetie, which is personal size, but more exotic than a cantaloupe. Too small for me, but the folks in my office at the time loved it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cantaloupe and melon

Thank you! I will put those varieties on my list for next year.

My melons were slow to get started as well. Especially this charentais that was planted out then moved. It didn't like that much and sulked and a few days ago I was debating pulling it but the last few days all the plants have doubled. It happened really suddenly. I am at 1 month plant out date and the weather hasn't been particularly warm ( mid 70 in day, mid 50 at night). Next week should be warmer so I hope that will kickstart them some more.

I am growing charentais, arava, honey orange.

Ill try to post some more pics in the next few days as they are bigger than the pics I just posted.

Here is a link that might be useful: melon progression pics

I'm not familiar with many small melons. I have a family of 6 (DH and 4 kids), and only the largest giant muskmelons will even go around once.

I only started growing Jenny Lind because I was in Massachusetts where you can't get larger melons to mature.

This year I'm using the little ones to try to stretch the melon season.

I thought I'd post a few new photos. I can't believe it's been less than two weeks! We've been eating lots of peas, kale, lettuce and broccoli. The cauliflower plants have just started to head, and sure enough they are orange! The melons are still pretty small, but are slowly growing and look healthy enough. My cherry tomatoes and Bush Goliath have fruit on them, and the peppers are starting to blossom. Beans and cukes have started to vine, and it looks like we'll be having some yellow crooknecks for dinner this weekend. I've transplanted sweet corn into a water trough, Indian popcorn into a back corner, water melon in a newly claimed corner of the yard (garden expansion, yay!) and put the leek seedlings in their bed a few nights ago.

My sweet corn trough:
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Crookneck and scallopini squash:
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Sugar snap peas, broccoli, tomatoes and lettuces. The peas and broccoli will probably be done in 2 weeks and will be taken out to make way for tomato trellises:
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My more shaded bed - it has shell peas, Swiss chard, red cabbage, celery, lettuce, the odd asparagus crown, and yard-long beans down at the end to obscure the compost bin:
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Pepper bed with pole beans on the side. Cauliflower is down the center - I didn't expect it to take so long to head out...
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Tiny leeks in the foreground, Indian popcorn, then watermelons on the other side of the fence in the beginnings of my second garden:
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Dog wondering when I'll quit messing with the plants and take her for a walk:
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