That's awesome! What size container did you plant your watermelons and cantaloupe in? This is my first time container gardening (or gardening at all for that matter!) and I'm kind of making it up as I go. My watermelons seem to be growing and flowering but no fruit (the bees don't care about them). My cantaloupe has TONS of flowers (and the bees love it) but only one fruit so far. I also have pumpkins...one just got a bunch of flowers yesterday so we'll see if anything happens there. All the pumpkin flowers are really close to the stem (not out on the vine) and that's where the cantaloupe is too (even though there are lots of flowers out on the vines there). The thing is, in this GA heat, I'm already watering 2-3 times a day and there's not even any thirsty fruit yet. I'm just trying to figure out how to salvage what I can this year and what to do better next year.

Hi, Tom - As a rule, I generally have best results when I use gypsum instead of lime in the gritty mixes (2/3 inert mineral ingredients) because of the fact that it won't raise pH. In the more acidic mix (5:1:1) I like using dolomitic (garden) lime as a Ca/Mg source (but you can certainly use gypsum if you wish). Note what JaG mentioned about fertilizers that include Ca/Mg, and about the need to supplement the Mg if it is not included in the fertilizer and you use gypsum. In fact, it's a good idea to include small amounts of MgSO4 in your fertilizer solution to prevent an antagonistic deficiency if you used gypsum in ther soil and the fertilizer contains Ca/Mg. Too much Ca (in the latter case you would be supplying it in the gypsum AND the fertilizer) can impede Mg uptake. Al

You know, I've been visiting GW for about two months now, checking in on the Florida Gardening section for a month and I guess I've always just assumed that the FAQ was a FAQ for using the forums... time to sift through it and see what all it holds.

Here is a photo I took of Nara Park, hope you enjoy it. Image link: