Melons sometimes do taste like cucumbers, however, when they are exposed to cool or cold weather sometime during the season. Wood ashes and the garden. Many callers ask if they can put wood ashes onto their gardens. Yes you can, but do so with restraint. Raising it higher could be harmful.
Manure tea is a partially decomposed, liquid mixture of animal manure and water.
It's been around for a long time and is now popular among some organic growers. There's several formulas for making the tea. I add 1 to 2 bushels of cow manure to a 55 gallon barrel, then fill the barrel with water. Cover it and let the brew sit for a few weeks in summer. Put a few cups of this liquid fertilizer around your vegetable plants every week or so to supply them with both water and nutrients.