Growing Rockmelon, also Canteloupe

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30 Jan 11 sue (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I live in SEQ,and have jusr found rockmelons growing in the front yard. I can only assume they started in our compost bin. Is this usual?? I know they are rockmelons as there are 3 half grown fruit on the vine.Rock melons have never been planted in our yard before.. Would be interested in knowing if this has happened to anyone else. thx
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20 Mar 11 Mike (Australia - temperate climate)
We used soil from our compost bin when we repotted some celery, strawbs and chilli. Within a couple of weeks some vines had started growing in most of the pots. We watched and waited to see what they would grow into. We've just now had our first rockmelon (yummo!) and there's about 6 or so coming along nicely. Whilst these are growing in hot houses, there's still plenty of bees that find their way in and do the rounds of all the blooms.
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