Melons

Including watermelons, rockmelons and honeydews

See also Cucurbits

Crop management

Watermelons: commercial production
Soils and climate, soils, establishment and maintenance, varieties, planting, nutrition, irrigation, pollination, pests and diseases, harvesting and marketing.

Growing rockmelons and honeydews: Before you start
This is a checklist of the things you need to know before you start. It will help you make the right decision about growing rockmelon and honeydew.

Growing rockmelons and honeydews: Common questions
Contains the most commonly asked questions about growing rockmelon and honeydew.

Producing vegetables for market - 1. Successful horticultural enterprises
Horticulture (and vegetables in particular) have often been perceived by people on the outside looking in, as the panacea of many ills.

Pests and diseases

Bacterial fruit blotch of melons (watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew)
Bacterial fruit blotch of melons is a major disease of Queensland melons. This DPI&F Note includes symptom descriptions, photos and management advice.

Fusarium wilt of melons (watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew)
Fusarium Wilt of melons was previously a highly destructive disease in Queensland. In recent seasons Fusarium Wilt has started to reemerge as a problem; symptom descriptions, and management advice are given.

Passion vine bug
This page contains a description and the management and control methods of passion vine bug in fruit such as citrus, cucurbits and passionfruit.

Powdery mildew of melons (watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew)
Powdery mildew is a significant disease affecting melons in Queensland. Symptom descriptions and photos, information on the disease cycle, infection, spread and management are given.

Sudden Wilt of melons (watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew)
Sudden Wilt is a plant disease complex that mostly attacks rockmelons and honeydew melons causing extensive losses Queensland. Disease symptoms are given, causes and management discussed.

Tomato root knot nematodes: Biology and control
Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are minute, worm-like animals which are very common in soil. They have a wide host range, causing problems in many annual and perennial crops.

Viruses affecting melons (watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew)
Virus infection (mosaic symptoms) in Queensland melons is most commonly caused by one (or more) of three viruses. Symptom description, disease life cycle and management options discussed.