Hi at2bells, Welcome to Garden Web. Please see addressing newbie and newer member issues for instructions on getting your Member Page email link set up so that you can easily be reached. The second 'reply' in the thread also explains how to look for the many seeds for postage offers where members have offered up their excess seeds for postage and what is usually required. hth. Sue

I have grown the more normal ones. I have been thinking about an order to Evergreen, I have grown Mitzuna, and yardlong beens. The mitzuna was great and grew all winter and into the late spring. The bloom stalks were quite tender and delicious. I used them like brocoli Rab. The yardlong have been very heat resistant. I will be growing others this year. I better get my order in.

You can go to http://www.agrohaitai.com/onlinecatelogue.htm for almost all varieties. The seed store is near Toronto.

I tried some small, Asian melons about 20 years ago; they were yellow when ripe, and about the size of my hand. It had been advertised as a thin skinned, "eat all" melon. The flesh was whitish, fairly thin, and was only faintly sweet... disappointing. Are the melons you mention similar to what I grew? One word of caution, regarding the fish-fertilization method. Some years back, I tried fertilizing hills of melon transplants with fish cleaning remnants (head, skin, entrails), buried about 8-9" deep. A couple days later - and after the transplants were in - I returned to find every single hill completely dug up, and the transplants destroyed. Apparently a roving omnivore (in my area, probably a skunk or racoon) smelled the fish & dug them up. I never had plants dug up like that before or since... so if this is your first time using fish as fertilizer, just be aware of the possibility of losses, and have extra plants on hand as backups. Jay, I don't have the melon seeds you are looking for... but if you ever again have any of the Japanese edamame soybeans available, I hope we can arrange a trade. I am a large-scale collector (see my trade list), so I'm sure I have something which interests you.