Vegetable Description: Hales Best Jumbo is one of the most popular open pollinated varieties. Great for the home garden! A standard early shipper with heavy coarse net and light ribs. Melons average 4 pounds and are packed with firm, salmon colored, great tasting flesh!

Vegetable Botanical Name: Cucumis melo

Other Common Names: Hales Best

Vegetable Duration: Annual

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 85

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 1120

Vegetable Height: 18” to 36”

Vegetable Spacing: 5' to 6'

Vegetable Planting: Direct sow outside after danger of last frost. Plant in hills of 2-3 plants per hill at 60”-72” apart, and 1“ below soil surface.

Vegetable Seed Saving: Plant either does not set seed because flowers are sterile, or plants will not come true from seed.