Vegetables · Warm
Watermelon
Cucurbitaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 100 cm
- USDA zones
- 6a–11b
- 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
Watermelon is the ultimate summer diva: 14-week season, lots of heat, ENORMOUS space (min. 1 m² per plant). In temperate raised beds only small-fruited varieties ('Sugar Baby'). Ripe when the tendril next to the fruit turns brown and it sounds 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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