How to support mellons while growing

Regarding the melons. You can place a nice heavy, tall cage or use a
trellis, around those melons when you plant them, then when the melons form, get
some ladies cast off knee high nylon stockings and drop the melon into the
stocking and tie it to the trellis or cage. This will protect from critters and
also carry the weight of the melon to ripeness.

Another thing you can do is go to Walmart's dry goods section and purchase,
for 57 cents a yard (and it is 72 inches wide), craft net. Comes in a
multitude of colors.
Cut a nice big square, put it around your melon and tie it to your cage or
trellis.

To all of you members, I use yards and yards of this netting to protect seed
beds, lettuce beds and other plants. Just put a couple of heavy hoops over
your grow box and put the netting over it and secure with wooden clothes pins.
Surprisingly, the black craft net almost disappears to the eye when applied
to the beds.

I have found this to be especially helpful in preventing the cabbage worm
from devastating my winter crops.

The netting can be machine washed on the gentle cycle in the washer and saved
for the next season of growing. Will last a couple of years but it is so
cheap that you get your money's worth.