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.

In the low desert around Phoenix, melons don’t wait for a frost date, because frost barely exists there.

Melons can ripen in Alberta gardens, but the province gives growers almost no margin for error.

Yes, melons can be grown in Alaska, but only with active season-extension techniques: black plastic or landscape fabric to warm the soil, floating row…

The short answer: soil needs to hold steady in the mid-60s before melon seed or transplants go in, which in most of Alabama lands somewhere between…

A melon vine that wilts by afternoon and perks back up by morning is just thirsty.

A muskmelon tells you it’s ready by letting go of the vine. A watermelon never will, so you check the spot where it rests on the ground and the tendril…