Originally Posted by Altheya:
“Yay! My melons (oor errr), leeks, beets, beans and lettuce are all sprouting in my aerogarden!
I'm planning on keeping the melon plants indoors as I do with chillis and peppers, as I'm thinking unless we have a really good summer they just won't survive. Anyone grown melons indoors with any success?!”
The first time I tried with melons i ended up with all male flowers

I was told my greenhouse was too cold, but as the weather warmed I finally got some females.
I hand pollinated by picking the male flower and inserting it into the female, as instructed on the seed packet.
I finally got a few small fruits and picked the most healthy ones to grow on and pulled the rest off the plant. Unfortunately this all happened quite late in the season and my melons only grew to tennis ball size.
I tried two years running but my unheated greenhouse doesn't give me a long enough growing season, so this year I'm growing in my conservatory along side my aubergines which had the same short period growing season.