Arkansas melon growers get one direct answer: wait until April 3, the state’s average last light-frost date, before seeding or transplanting outdoors.

Arkansas gardeners get one advantage most Southern states don’t: enough heat and enough season length to grow almost any melon type, provided the variety…

In most of Arizona, especially the low desert around Phoenix, frost isn’t the obstacle that decides when to plant melons. What decides it is heat.

Skip the encyclopedia of melon cultivars and go straight to type: fast-maturing cantaloupe and muskmelon types for a spring planting that beats the worst…

Transplant melons outdoors once the risk of frost has mostly passed, around the average last-frost date of May 21, and expect to bring them in before the…

Alberta’s melon window runs from a mean last frost of May 21 to a mean first frost of September 16, in a climate with zero days a year reaching 90°F.

Anchorage’s frost-free window runs from about May 3-12 (last spring frost) to September 22-October 1 (first fall frost), roughly 143 days.

Short-season, cold-tolerant cantaloupe and muskmelon types, started indoors and finished under plastic or in a high tunnel, are the only melons with a…

Melon seed goes in the ground in Alabama once the soil has warmed past the last frost risk, typically from mid-April into May depending on where in the…

Watermelon and cantaloupe are the safe picks across Alabama; honeydew and other dry-climate melons fight a losing battle against the state’s humid summers.