Gardeners who haven’t started their summer garden can still get some fruits and vegetables into the ground and harvest their crop by summer’s end. The best suggestion is to plant cantaloupe. A fresh, ...

Time-lapse of growing cantaloupe from a fresh seed to fruit over 101 days. The seed was extracted from a fresh melon, then germinated and planted in pot. The plant was growing strongly and blooming ...

A listeria outbreak in cantaloupes last fall that was traced to a southeastern Colorado farm killed thirty people and sickened dozens more in 28 states. The economic fallout from the tragedy has also ...

The Rocky Ford cantaloupes that will hit groceries and farmers markets this summer got their start mid-April in the form of tiny, shiny blue seeds. If they meet 2016's production, farmers in this ...

Answer: The next time to plant cantaloupes would be in middle to late August. This is a fairly long crop, so earlier is better than later. Expect a few more problems with this planting because insects ...