A new type of melon that has undertones of mango when ripe! Large, creamy-yellow fruit are bursting with flavour and juice, plus they are delightfully aromatic. Producing around 4-6 fantastic fruit per plant. Best grown in a greenhouse but could be grown on a sunny patio in the south of the UK or under a cloche. 5/5 in recent Which? trials. The fruit colour visibly changes from grey/green to a creamy yellow to tell you it's ripe and ready to enjoy.
Their origin can be traced back to the pontifical fruit gardens of Avignon. The mid-sized round fruits boast delicious, juicy and sugar-sweet flesh which is sunset yellow/orange in colour. Charentais-melons indicate by their fragrance when they are ripe and can be harvested. They emit a beautifully fruity perfume letting you know they are ripe and ready to harvest. Grafted 'Anasta' plants grow very fast and do not only grow in greenhouses and tunnels but will even grow in sunny and sheltered places in the garden or on a patio. Good resistance to powdery mildew.