Above you can see the frames built for growing melons such as, honeydew and rockmelons. The issue that arose from this method, heavy melons that are hanging break vines. I set about looking for ideas on how to prevent this from happening and came up with the hammocks you can see in the photo below. Made from cheap cotton fabric and using a good twine for the ties, they do a great job of holding up heavy melons, which in turn saves vine damage.
At this stage the largest of the melons have a couple more weeks before they are ripe enough to eat, meanwhile I drool daily while watering them all.
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