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Contents

• Botany
• Cultivar selection
• Transplant production
• Planting in the high tunnel
• Row covers
• Soil management and fertilization
• Irrigation
• Pollination
• Pruning
• Trellising Harvest and yield
• Marketing
• Pest management
• Aphids
• Bacterial wilt
• Cucumber beetles
• Powdery mildew
• Spider mites
• Thrips
• Whiteflies
• References
• Melon and watermelon seed sources
• Sources of high tunnels (hoophouses)

Related pages

• M170, High Tunnel Tomato Production
• MX384, Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers

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High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production

Sources of high tunnels (hoophouses)

• A. M. Leonard
  P.O. Box 816
  Piqua, OH 45356
  800-543-8955
  www.amleo.com
• Atlas Greenhouse Systems, Inc.
  P.O. Box 558
  Alapaha, GA 31622
  800-346-9902
  www.AtlasGreenhouse.com
  service@atlasgreenhouse.com
• Conley’s Greenhouse Mfg.
  4344 Mission Blvd.
  Montclair, CA 91763
  800-377-8441
  www.conleys.com
  info@conleys.com
• CropKing, Inc.,
  5050 Greenwich Rd.,
  Seville, OH 44273
  330-769-2616
  www.cropking.com
  cropking@cropking.com
• FarmTek
  1440 Field of Dreams Way
  Dyersville, IA 52040
  800-327-6835
  www.FarmTek.com
• Grow-It Greenhouse
  P.O. Box 26037
  West Haven, CT 06516
  800-932-9344
  www.growitgreenhouses.com
• Harnois Greenhouses
  www.harnois.com
  US Distributors include:
  Syngenta Inc./S&G Flowers (D)
  5300 Katrine Ave.
  Downers Grove, IL 60515
  630-969-0889
  888-323-7253
  Fax 630-969-6498
  dennis.meisch@syngenta.com
• Ledgewood Farm
  Edward Person
  RFD 1 Box 375
  Moultonboro, NH 03254
  603-476-8829
• Ludy Greenhouses
  P.O. Box 141
  New Madison, OH 45346
  937-996-1921
  www.ludy.com
  bmunchel@ludy.com
• Poly-Tex Inc.,
  P.O. Box 458
  Castlerock, MN 55010
  800-852-3443
  www.poly-tex.com
• Rimol Greenhouse Systems
  40 Londonderry Turnpike
  Hooksett, NH 03106
  877-746-6544
  www.rimol.com
• Speedling Inc.
  P.O. Box 7238
  Sun City, FL 33586
  800-881-4769
  www.speedling.com
• Stuppy Greenhouse Mfg.
  1212 Clay St.
  P.O. Box 12456
  North Kansas City, MO 64116
  800-733-5025
  www.stuppyg.com
  greenhouse@stuppy.com
• Turner Greenhouses
  P.O. Box 1260
  Goldsboro, NC 27530
  800-672-4770
  www.turnergreenhouses.com
• Zimmerman’s Welding
  Jacob L. Zimmerman
  16645 Ridgewood Rd.
  Versailles, MO 65084
  573-378-4770

M173, new February 2006