Vegetable / Warm season
Hale's Best Jumbo Melon
Warm, wide beds or trellised systems with sling support.
Sweet orange flesh with classic muskmelon aroma.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 85
- Germination temperature
- 70-95F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 36 inches
- Row spacing
- 60 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 3 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 14 days after last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Provide steady water during vine growth, then reduce swings near ripening.
- Soil
- Warm, fertile, well-drained soil with plenty of compost.
- Watch
- Do not transplant oversized seedlings; cucurbits dislike root disturbance.
- melon
- cucurbit
- warm-season
- vining
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Cucurbit Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide