Melons cannot be sowed on the spot, but must plant them with pot balls.
Cultivation takes about 6 to 7 weeks. Anyone who has a heatable greenhouse and can plant in April, must therefore already be sown at the beginning of March. For culture in a cold frame or in a small greenhouse that cannot be heated, the flowering date is around the middle to the end of May, which corresponds to a sowing date from the beginning to the middle of April. You sow in pike boxes or appropriate seed trays and it is best to use a sandy compost soil. The melon seeds are laid out at a distance of 5cm x 5cm, only 0,5 covered with soil up to 1cm and in a suitable room 20 kept up to 22°C. As soon as the development of the first true leaf begins, is in 9- or pricked out in 10 cm pots. The little plants are planted in the ground up to the cotyledons. When the ball of earth is through-rooted, put into larger pots. Under no circumstances should growth stagnate. After training the 4. to 5. leaf can be planted.
