Georgia’s long, hot growing season favors heat-loving melons above all else: watermelon performs best statewide, cantaloupe works well with…

For north Florida, melon seed goes into warm soil after the last frost risk fades, roughly mid-February to early March, and vines need to finish fruiting…

Florida’s best melons are the ones bred to shrug off humidity and heat, not the vines that need three dry months to ripen.

In Delaware, melons go into the ground or the garden bed once the soil has warmed well past the last frost, roughly late April to mid-May depending on…

Delaware gardeners get a long enough season for nearly every melon type: cantaloupe, watermelon, and honeydew all mature comfortably between the spring…

Melon seed goes into Connecticut ground once the soil itself is warm, not simply once the calendar says frost has passed.

Short-season melons win in Connecticut. Cantaloupes and muskmelons rated for 70 to 85 days, along with icebox-type watermelons, mature reliably before…

Colorado’s frost dates put the safe window for melons between roughly May 11 and September 30, though many growers push transplants out as early as May 1…

Colorado’s growing season runs short and its summers stay dry, so the melons that succeed here are the quick-maturing types: icebox watermelons and small…

Coastal and Southern California don’t have a frost-free planting window for melons, they have no frost at all in an average year, so the calendar…