Vegetables · Warm
Cantaloupe
Cucurbitaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 80 cm
- USDA zones
- 5b–11a
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 14 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sun
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Cantaloupe is diva level: warm spot, lots of water, lots of patience. In temperate raised beds, only worth it under fleece or in a hotbed. Ripe when it slips off the stem on its own and smells sweetly perfumed; the tap sounds dull-hollow.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-27 Phase 7 expansion
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