* Medicinal uses: Bitter Melon young leaves and fruits has been used in Asia, Africa and India as herbal medicine/supplement. Benefits and usages of Bitter Melon (fruit and young leaves and stems) are to relieve: diabetes, digestive problems, laxatives, heart problems, anti-cancer properties, anti-aging properties, skin infections, regulates blood flow, respiratory diseases, wounds, gout, ulcers, rheumatism and slows the grey of hair.
* Bitter melon is edible vegetable , a super food. Leaves and slid-dried young fruits for tea.
*Grow bitter melon where daytime temperatures average between 70-75 degrees F and the soil has warmed to at least 65-70 degree F.
*Soaking seeds 6-12 hours > pack them up with wet paper towel and put ones into a plastic box . They may germinate within 3-5 days.
*Spacing seedlings from 24"/each and go alongside the garden fences, trellis
* After 45 days since germinating you may cut some of first young fruits for food.