Virginia’s long, warm coastal season handles nearly every melon type well, but quick-to-mature cantaloupes and muskmelons are the safest bet statewide.

In Vermont, melons go into the ground as transplants, not seeds, and only after the frost risk tied to the region’s late spring has passed, generally…

Vermont’s growing season runs long enough for melons on paper, but the state rarely delivers the sustained heat that ripens the big vines.

Melons in Utah go in the ground after the last spring frost passes, which at the Salt Lake City reference station runs from April 12 to April 29, but…

Short-season, heat-tolerant melons are the safe bet almost everywhere in Utah: icebox watermelons and early cantaloupes finish reliably even where the…

Plant melons in Texas once your soil has warmed and the last hard freeze has passed for your specific location.

Cantaloupes and small “icebox” watermelons are the safest bets across most of Texas, thanks to their shorter time to harvest and their tolerance for long…

Melons go in Tennessee gardens once soil has warmed past the last frost risk, generally from late April through mid-May in Middle Tennessee, later in the…

Tennessee’s frost-free window runs from around early April to late October, wide enough for nearly any melon.

Transplant melons outdoors in South Dakota once soil has warmed past the chill of spring, roughly mid-to-late May for most of the state, and never before…