Melon
White spots (powder) on zucchini plants: how to treat powdery mildew?
In the permaculture vegetable garden as in others, there is a crop that is particularly sensitive to a disease that despairs even experienced gardeners: zucchini and powdery mildew. This cryptogamic disease settles on the large leaves of your zucchini plants...
20 July 2024
Why are my garden melons not sweet?
Melons, these juicy and sweet fruits, are a summer delicacy for many people. However, it can be disappointing to grow melons in your vegetable garden only to discover that they are not as sweet as you hoped. Several factors influence...
9 October 2024
Squash, courgettes, melons: what are the risks of hybridisation and is it dangerous?
It has to be said: we love our brightly-coloured winter vegetables, such as pumpkins, squash and gourds, which we love in gratins or soups. They all belong to the cucurbit family. But this family also includes courgettes, melons and cucumbers....
17 May 2025
How do you combat powdery mildew?
Oidium is a fungus that generally attacks courgettes and other vegetables in the Cucurbitaceae family (squash, cucumbers, melons, etc.). Although it can sometimes be found on leaves as early as the beginning of summer, it generally only becomes a problem...
14 February 2026
Melon
- Type : Vegetables
- Subtype : Fruiting vegetables
- Botanical Family : Cucurbits
Characteristics
- Lifecycle : Annual
- Exposure : Full Sun
- Frost Hardiness : Frost Sensitive
- Cultivation Difficulty : Medium
- Adult Height : 30 cm
Sowing & Planting
- Greenhouse Growing : Recommended
- Sowing Depth : 1.5 cm
- Plant Spacing : 80 cm
- Row Spacing : 120 cm
Maintenance
- Maintenance : Moderate
- Water Requirements : High
Seeds
- Soil Type : Humus-rich
- Soil pH Preference : Neutral
- Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
- Disease Sensitivity : Moderate
- Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
- Pollination : Insect-pollinated
- Propagation : Sowing