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Originally Posted by flowerpower
When should she start seeds if our LFD is 5/31?
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Melons prefer a warm soil temperature; best not to jump the gun too much with them. The usual recommendation on starting them is to wait to direct sow a couple of weeks or so after last frost. They can also be started in pots a couple of weeks before time to set out to get a little bit of a headstart.
I have personally come to prefer starting in four inch pots outside (bringing in at night if cool), then transplanting into the garden. I won't start them under lights -- that way they don't have to be hardened off. Cucurbits don't like to be rootbound. Nor do they care for disturbance of the rootball, and as such should be carefully transplanted.
The Cornell site has some fairly good information on growing melons that your friend may find useful.
http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/hom...ml#growinginfo