What are these seed instructions?

You either plant them in rows that are 5 feet apart, with the seeds 12 inches apart in each row; or in hills that are 5 feet apart each way, 4–5 seeds per hill.

You can either grow them in rows or in clusters aka hills.

If you do rows each row is 5’ apart but in the row the plants are 1’ apart. If you do “hills” you plant 4–5 seeds in one cluster but each cluster needs to be 5’ away from any other cluster.

Basically, there two ways that these plants are commonly grown. one is the traditional “row”, where each row is five feet from the next row. The seeds are planted one inch deep every 12 inches along each row.

The other option is a “hill”, which is a mound of soil. You plant several seeds in each mound of soil, and the hills should be no closer than five feet from each other.

Honeydews need a lot of room to spread out, so while 5 feet sounds like a lot when you’re planting seeds, it’s not when you’re dealing with full-grown vines.

And the reason for putting them so far apart is that they will vine like crazy. They will take over your whole garden and if you’re not careful, you’ll get a knock on your back door one night and when you open it a vine that was laying up against the door will come right in and take over the remote! I found that out the hard way one year. I put in pumpkins and butternut squash. My green thumb turned into a war with me on the losing side. Yep. Had my ass kicked thoroughly by the side dish. I got even though. I dug out the machete and we had some squash and so did all my neighbors. We also had numerous jack-o-lanterns to practice on with those really cool stencils. In the meantime, the vines had to be moved every time I mowed the yard. Never read “Kudzu” before you go to move the vines…..

PUT THOSE SEEDS AWAY!

You should not plant them until after the last frost, there should be a little map on the back of the seed packet