White powder on melon leaves is powdery mildew, a fungal disease that coats the leaf surface and blocks the plant’s ability to make sugar.

Iowa’s frost-free window for summer squash runs roughly from late April through mid-October, but the real planting date depends on which end of the state…

A melon vine loaded with yellow flowers and not a single fruit forming is rarely a disease or a soil problem. It’s timing.

Iowa’s growing season runs long enough and hot enough to favor bush-type summer squash over trailing varieties.

A hollow or cracked center inside an otherwise perfect watermelon is called hollow heart.

Summer squash goes into the ground in Indiana once the soil has warmed past the last spring frost window, which at the Indianapolis reference station…

Melons split gardeners into two camps, but the honest answer is: transplant, started indoors three to four weeks before your last frost, unless your…

For Indiana gardens, heat and humidity tolerance matter more than days-to-maturity when picking a summer squash type.

The real damage from cucumber beetles on melons isn’t the chewed leaves. It’s bacterial wilt, a disease the beetle carries in its gut and injects every…

Summer squash goes in the ground in Illinois only after soil has warmed and frost risk has passed, which at the reference Chicago-area station means a…