Growing Rockmelon, also Canteloupe

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12 Jan 11 Alison (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, This is my first time growing rockmelons. I'm in Melbourne region. I planted them out in late November, and they are spreading across the garden bed like weeds, and have tons of flowers on them, that look nice and healthy. Do I need to do anything to them to make the flowers become fruit??? I'd hate to just watch the flowers dissappear to nothing after all this! (Do they cross-polenate with other types of veg/fruit? eg Toms/cucumber/capsicum that I'm also growing in there). They are growing in a no-dig veggie garden of mushroom compost/lucerne hay/straw/chook poo layers.
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