How to grow melons

• Choose a spot in your garden that sits in full sun. Loosen the soil with a garden fork and enrich the soil with Green Hands Potting Soil.
• Sow direct by pressing 3-4 seeds into mounds of moist soil 1m apart or fill starter trays with Green Hands Potting Soil.. Sow seeds, cover, firm down and water well. Keep the soil moist so the seeds don’t dry out. Transplant after 3-4 weeks. 
• Once seedlings appear, thin to 2-3 strong plants and feed weekly with Green Hands Fruit Fertilizer.
• Water well while the fruit develops, then reduce watering as the fruit begins to ripen to sweeten before picking.
• Harvest rockmelon and honey dew when the stem begins to break away from fruit. Watermelons are ready to harvest when underside in contact with soil turns yellow and the fruit gives a dull, hollow sound when tapped.