Melon
Cucumis melo
Plante annuelle de la famille des cucurbitacées produisant des fruits charnus et sucrés, à croissance rampante, aimant le plein soleil et un sol riche en matière organique.
Full sunWater mediumAnnual4 months of harvest
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When to sow, plant and harvest
Temperate climate · mainland FranceJFMAMJJASOND
Sowing
Planting
Harvest
Characteristics
General
- Plant type
- Fruiting vegetable
- Life cycle
- Annual
- Growth habit
- Creeping & ground cover
Growing conditions
- Nutrients
- High
- Soil type
- Silty
- Water needs
- Medium
- Exposure
- Full sun
- Hours of sun
- 8 h
- Cold hardiness
- Low
- Heat tolerance
- Moderate
Sowing and planting
- Sowing method
- In pots
- Sowing depth
- 20 mm
- Minimum temperature
- 18 °C
- Propagation
- Grafting