Using a food thermometer. Checking the temperature of your cooked meat, poultry, and seafood with a food thermometer is the only reliable way to make sure your food has reached a safe internal cooking temperature.
Planting Watermelons. The ideal date to plant watermelons varies according to the climate of the region. To produce the sugar necessary for sweet fruit, the melons need hot weather. Seedlings should not be transplanted until three to four weeks after the last average frost date in the spring. Starting seed indoors about six weeks before planting gives you a head start when the soil is warm enough.
Start your seeds indoors two to four weeks before the last spring frost date and transplant them when soil temperatures are 65 F and above. As they take a long time to reach maturity, plant your seeds and your transplants as soon as you can. Honeydew melons mature between 65 and 100 days in warm, sunny weather.hen the soil is dry 2 inches below the surface, water the melons. Each plant requires 1/2 a gallon of water twice a week, increasing to 1 gallon of water twice a week during fruit production. Honeydew melons are ripe when their skin is a pale green, sometimes with a faint yellow tinge.