That is awfully cold. What is the min/max soil temperature?
Sugar Baby is my partner's go to melon, although we seldom have a melon ripe enough to enjoy. This past summer we had extraordinary heat, almost every day was sunny, and the season lasted several weeks longer than usual (with summer heat in fall.) I did get to eat a ripe melon, and it was very good , but the plants down the stem weren't ripe enough to sweeten. We have the opposite of cool nights - not good for tomato and pepper pollination when it is nearly 100 degrees and upper 80's overnight and dreadfully humid for days on end.
Did some of the prep that rhines81 suggested, but the water treatment is a bit too physical. You have to do what you can but those are good ideas.
I'm close to central Iowa for summer temps and seasonality. Blacktail Mountain is in my city seed library, so it must be favored in this area. I see huge sun and moon at the farmers market. I wonder if they are started in a high tunnel. It would need to be huge !
-Lisa
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