Melons are
the quintessential summer fruit, requiring warm days and nights to set fruit
properly. There is nothing quite like harvesting your own sweet, tasty melons
from the garden.
Start
your melon seeds off indoors, a few weeks before your last frost. Transplant
them into their permanent stations when they have 2-4 true leaves and all
danger of frost has passed.
To know
when a sweet melon is ripe it will either “slip” where the stem comes away
easily, or you can faintly smell the fruit's flesh at the blossom end.