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After planting our garden this year (which has been so disappointing  this year) we had a mystery vine start growing. We didn't plant anything that vines out because our garden isn't very big so we decided it was something that didn't compost all the way in our compost. Anyway, fast forward a few weeks and we discovered something growing on the vine. It was a little round green thing (could be anything, right?) so we have been watching it. Well it got bigger and then started turning kind of pale yellow orangish, so we thought it might be a pumpkin. It stayed that way for awhile and then I decided to smell it the other day and it smelled like a really ripe cantalope. But it doesn't look like a cantalope, it looks more like a honeydew but not the color of a honeydew. We couldn't decide what it was. Well yesterday I went to look at it and noticed it had a soft spot starting on it so I decided to pick it and investigate what it was. The smell was so sweet and strong that I could have swore it was a really good cantalope. But it was smooth on the outside, not webbed looking. So I cut into it and inside it looked like a honeydew. It was mostly green with a little bit of really light orangeish color. And man did it smell good! So we decided to cut it up and put it in the fridge (because we like cold melon). We ate some today and it tastes very much like cantalope. So we decided to call it either a honeylope or a cantadew  We noticed a couple of days ago that there is another one on the vine now too. This isn't the first time we have had some strange cross breed of something in our garden. One year we had a squashini (our summer squash and zucchini cross bred into a green and yellow striped one) but unfortunately bugs got it before we could eat it.
Just wanted to share our mystery melon story. Anyone else have this happen or know what our melon could be?
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Too funny! We had a pumpkin vine grow from our compost a few years ago, but the time late September rolled around the vine climed up a tree in the back yard and it looked as though we had a pumkin tree!
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There are several varieties of muskmelon that might fit the description. How fun! Make sure you take photos and gather the seeds to plant next year, especially if you enjoyed it!
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We did take pictures before it changed colors but I'll take more when the next one changes. We'll save some seeds too. I love when funny stuff like that happens.
Our garden hasn't done well due to the heat partially but mostly because our dog won't stay out of it  She keeps eating all the tomatoes as soon as they start turning orange! I have a plan for next year though. I want to enlarge the garden and add another bed (we have a raised garden due to the rock a few inches under our topsoil) and put a white picket fence around it with a gate, so she'll stay out! Then it will look kind of like Mr McGregor's garden Our garden is in our medium sized backyard. I just have to talk my dh into it
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It's not always fun when this happens. I'm so glad it turned out well for you!! 
When we were in Texas I grew cucumbers on one side of the garden, and bitter melon/bitter gourd on another. It was my very first, very successful garden ever (come to think of it it was my most successful garden so far) -- except that all my cucumbers were BITTER!!! I found out later on you're not supposed to grow them in the same vicinity. Or control pollination by netting them and pollinating yourself.
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Oh that would be bad! I'll remember that. No cukes this year, but I do plan on planting them next year.
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