A person holding a cantaloupe with more melons out of focus on a shelf below. - Thai Liang Lim/Getty Images If you've ever chosen a cantaloupe from the grocery store, thinking it would get sweeter ...

The most reliable way to tell if a cantaloupe is ripe is to tug on the fruit. When it separates easily and cleanly from the stem, it's ready to harvest. Ripe cantaloupe loses its green color in the ...

Because you deserve better than mealy, bland melon. It’s tough to deny a slice of a fresh, ripe, juicy cantaloupe during peak season. (That’s June through August, by the way, with the best of the ...

When you're perusing the produce section of your grocery store, you may find it easy to pick out the freshest apples, peaches, or other small fleshy fruits. Cantaloupe has a harder rind around it, ...

This cantaloupe is nearly ready to be picked. The netting on the skin is an even tan color and the rind under the netting is changing from green to tan. In just a day or two, this melon will be ready ...

Local markets are bursting with a variety of melons including cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon, along with unique varieties like casaba and crenshaw. Melon season runs through October, when the ...

Growing your own summer vegetables can be very rewarding, but picking them too soon or late can be disappointing and frustrating. Some vegetables are easy to tell when ripe – such as tomatoes (soft ...

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Don't be afraid to eat cantaloupes. You might be a bit hesitant to enjoy them after the listeria outbreak last fall that killed 30 people and made more than 145 others sick. But it was traced to one ...

Rocky Ford farmers and growers have spent much of the last year doing damage control, after their melons were wrongly fingered as the cause of a listeria outbreak that actually originated a hundred ...