Vegetable / Warm season
Sugar Baby Watermelon
Compact watermelon choice for warm beds with enough vine room.
Small round melon with sweet red flesh.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 80
- Germination temperature
- 75-95F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 36 inches
- Row spacing
- 72 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
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 36 inches in-row spacing, 72 inches between rows, and 1 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Cold soil delays growth and can rot seed. Consistent deep water until fruit ripening. Warm, fertile, well-drained soil.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Consistent deep water until fruit ripening.
- Soil
- Warm, fertile, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Cold soil delays growth and can rot seed.
- cucurbit
- summer
- pollinators
- vining
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Cucurbit Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide