A unique, elongated oriental early melon with white, crisp, sweet and fragrant flesh. This tiny, delicious, gourmet melon is rarely found in markets. The yellow skin is lined with silvery furrows, and is so thin it can be peeled like an apple. (Click for more details)

This early variety has small, cricket-ball-sized fruits of a pound or more, with a complex spicy flavour, green flesh, and a heavily netted skin. Amy Goldman, author of 'Melons for the Passionate Grower', says this variety 'may cause drooling' 65... (Click for more details)

This early ripening Italian variety of cantaloupe, Eldoraro produces round/oval fruit weighing a couple of pounds with netted pale lemon skin and darker green sutures. The flesh itself is rich orange and very sweet as suggested by its name whilst ... (Click for more details)

A very early-maturing plant, producing many small, delicious-flavoured fruits of 4 to 5 inches in diameter. An excellent 'designer' American melon, fruit slips off when ripe, developed at the University of Minnesota around 1948. (Click for more details)

A 17th century French heirloom originally from the garden of the Bishop of Rennes. An early variety which is well adapted to cooler climates. The fruit are smooth-skinned with slight ribbing and weigh about 2 lbs while the orange flesh has a super... (Click for more details)

The name translates as 'Toad Skin' and the skin of this Spanish-style melon does indeed resemble this amphibian with its mottled green skin with flecks of yellow and wrinkles when ripe. However, the reason vast areas of La Mancha are dedicated to ... (Click for more details)

Sometimes also known as Queen Anne's Pocket Melon, this very fragrant white-fleshed, long-established heirloom variety has quite small apple-sized fruits with an attractive yellow and orange-red striped skin. (Click for more details)