Melons can succeed in Idaho, but the state’s answer depends entirely on elevation.

Lowland Hawaii has no frost season at all, so there’s no calendar built around a last freeze date here.

Georgia gardeners can set melon transplants or direct-seed once soil temperatures hold above 65°F, generally from mid-to-late April in most of the state…

The short answer: in north Florida, around Jacksonville, melon seedlings can go into the ground once the frost risk passes, typically between…

Melons need warm soil, not just a frost-free date, to germinate and thrive. In Delaware, that generally means waiting until late April or into May, once…

Connecticut gardeners get one real shot at a melon season: transplants go in around late May to early June, after soil has had real time to warm, and the…

Soil temperature settles the sowing date for melons in Colorado, not the frost calendar.

In frost-free coastal and southern California, melon planting isn’t really bound by a calendar date at all: the growing window runs the full year, and…

Coastal British Columbia’s soil rarely reaches melon-friendly warmth before late May, sometimes not until June, because the frost calendar around…

Melon seedlings need soil that has climbed well past the mid-60s, not just a calendar date past frost.