Adorable Miniature Fruits

Our Mouse Melon seeds produces tiny, cucumber-like fruits resembling miniature watermelons. Our adorable fruit plants are great for snacking, garnishing, or pickling, making our seeds for eating a suitable plant for adding charm and flavor to your garden and culinary creations.

Prolific and Consistent Yield

Expect a prolific harvest of refreshing, bite-sized melons throughout the growing season. Our Mouse Melon seeds for planting are consistent producers, ensuring plenty of fruit for your culinary recipes. Making them the suitable perennial seeds for planting outdoors for any experienced gardeners.

Unique Culinary Uses

Add a tangy twist to your meals with our Mouse Melon seeds for eating. Our tiny fruits are great for fresh eating, pickling, or stir-fries, offering versatility in the kitchen. Their crisp texture and unique flavor are well-suited for enhancing a variety of dishes, from salads to cocktails.

Adaptable to Most Soils

Our Mouse Melon fruit seeds for planting outdoors are adaptable and grow to various soil types. Their resilience makes them great for gardeners in various climates, from temperate regions to tropical areas. Grow them easily in your garden for a consistent, low-maintenance harvest.

Mouse Melon (Melothria Scabra) - If you are looking for an unusual fruit known as a cucurbit, then Melothria scabra fits that bill. This herbaceous climber in the cucumber family is grown for its tiny edible fruit that looks just like a miniature striped watermelon. This unusual plant has been given many different common names including: mouse melon, Mexican sour gherkin, Mexican sour cucumber and cucumelon.  No matter what name you want to call this edible fruit, it truly is unusual.

The plants look very similar to cucumber plants, but just slightly smaller in size. Melothria Scabra is a fast-growing tender tropical perennial, it is easily grown as an annual in temperate climates.

The edible small melons can be eaten raw, used in stir fries, or pickled like cucumbers. The young, tender fruits are best for eating raw, while the older fruits with more developed seeds are better for pickling. Mouse melon is as easy to grow as regular cucumbers and does best in humus-rich, well-drained soil in full sun. Start the seeds indoors 4-6 weeks before the average last frost and plant outside 9-12 inches apart at the same time regular cucumbers would be planted, or direct sow after last frost. Most seeds should germinate within 10 days when temperatures are around 70F and the seeds are kept continually moist.