Until then, you can still get your cantaloupe fix! Cantaloupes have become more than just a summer delight. At any given point, cantaloupes are being harvested somewhere on the planet and, if you live in the United States, the cantaloupes you see in your local grocery store from November until May are from Central America. Most likely they come from Guatemala with a portion coming from Costa Rica, Honduras or Mexico during this time. Here in California, farmers will begin harvesting cantaloupes in the southern desert area as early as April and into July.
After that, cantaloupes from the southern desert will step up to the plate again for their fall cantaloupe season, which can last into December in some years. All cantaloupes produced in California are grown in regions where the weather is hot and dry. Summers without rain in these growing regions as well as careful field preparation and irrigation practices by growers keep the cantaloupe dry, which ensures melon rinds develop properly.
And imagine Pope Paul II, a plump pope in an age of very plump popes, sweating in his summer home. An envoy from the East arrives, from the technically damned Armenian arm of the Christian world, bearing the gift of melons, webbed with white and softly orange on the inside. Pope Paul II became famously obsessed with melons during his reign, and the juicy fruit were his ultimate undoing. The pope's chef published a cookbook in explicitly recommending that melons be eaten as appetizers, since eating them on a full stomach could have serious consequences.
The next year, Paul II ate "two good big melons" in one sitting, and then died. The story goes that the cantaloupe gets its name from Cantalupo di Sabina, a town in the Sabine Hills, where the papacy had a country estate. In addition to bacterial wilt , cantaloupe is susceptible to fusarium wilt , various types of mosaic, alternaria leaf blight, bacterial fruit blotch, phytophtora blight , and anthracnose.
Diseases particular to fruit-sizing include powdery mildew, downy mildew, gummy stem blight , and alternaria stem blight. Application of pesticides, fumigation, crop inspection, careful selection of disease-resistant varieties, and crop rotation are all effective in combating these common pests and diseases.
Precooling after harvest is important for postharvest quality. Higher humidity may result in stem-scar and surface mold. Cantaloupe is divided into several grades: U. Fancy, U. Commercial, and U. Generally speaking, the percentage of defects shown on a timely government inspection certificate should not exceed the percentage of allowable defects, provided: 1 transportation conditions were normal; 2 the USDA or CFIA inspection was timely; and 3 the entire lot was inspected.
Canadian good arrival guidelines unless otherwise noted are broken down into five parts as follows: maximum percentage of defects, maximum percentage of permanent defects, maximum percentage for any single permanent defect, maximum percentage for any single condition defect, and maximum for decay.
Canadian destination guidelines for asparagus are View current Know Your Commodity Guide. Focus On Fresh. Inspection Terms and Certificates.
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