Divergent Melon

Exceptionally early, reliable, and even-ripening, Divergent is the cantaloupe-galia cross favored by organic market farmers like Marr Pond Farm in Sangerville, ME (zone 4b!), and serious melon fans in-the-know. It breaks away from the pack of over-sized and under-flavored competition, ripening attractive lightly netted round 2½–3½ lb melons with high sugar content and rich muskmelon flavor even in challenging seasons with cool nights. Plant multiple successions to get a continuous harvest, or let them all come on at once and have a melon festival! Thick orange flesh and small seed cavity mean there will be plenty to go around. Tug or cut from the vine when skin is mostly yellow but still has some green tint.