vue - How to grow Bitter Melons in a cold climate.

1. great update Dan !!! so is it a fruit or a vegetable ??
2. I have been growing Bitter melon in my polytunnel for a few years, and i have to hand pollinate them, the bees don't seem to be attracted to them when they come into the polytunnel. Do you have this problem?
   
   I'm trying to grow Ginger and Turmeric this year, doing ok so far!
3. Definitely an acquired taste. I find very few Americans like the taste. I like it in stir fries. Don't care for it raw as in a salad. Best wishes Bob.
4. Thanks for sharing your helpful advice. Very helpful information...
5. Look at them grow! Well done! Never had one, obviously they are bitter. Not fond of that but maybe i can aquire a taste for it. Obviously a lot of people like eating them so i will have to try some next year and cook some traditional dishes with them. I have yet to taste a veg i don't like, except uncooked kale. Yuck. I do eat some every day just for the nutrient content but, yuck... My melons are not really moving but my cucumbers are! There are little cucumbers on it everywhere! I'm going to get sick of eating those, i can feel it already. And what on earth was i thinking, planting 10 zuccinis. I must have been hungry when sowing the seeds. Ohh, i can eat 10, no problem! My tropical beans are doing great too. Lovely purple mart yardlongs. Flowerbuds are starting to appear on the lima beans. I can not wait to taste them. They are supposed to be realy good. I'm in heaven with all this fresh food. I'm eating roasted blue potatoes now. What a fantastic thing, growing your own food. I finally cleared enough space to grow serious amounts of everything. I'm still trying to figure out how much of everything i actually need to get me through winter so i just plonked in as much as the ground would take and we'll see. It took me 5 years to get to this point. It was a couch-grass infested, overgrown wasteland with marginal soil that no veg would grow in when i started. Little patch by little strip, i conquered it.
6. Your bitter melons are loving inside the pollytunnel. I see a female flower, do you hand pollinate the flowers since they're growing inside? Or do you have any pollinators that can come in and out? Off topic, :) I was curious, is your wife filipina? because you speak tagalog. Good job sir because you're interested to learn our language. Saludo ako sa'yo!