A couple years ago I picked up some of the seeds at a free seed exchange and started some of the seeds. On researching them further, I found they need room to grow so I gave them to 2 friends with more garden room to grow them. Frost hit before they were fully ripe but none of us that tried the ripest ones liked them. The many melons were thrown in the garbage not the compost so they would not sprout all over the gardens.