Improved Perfecto cantaloupe
Cucumis melo 'Improved Perfecto'
AAS Winner 1933
USDA zones2 to 11
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Climbing
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Soil types
- Loam, clay
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Improved Perfecto' cantaloupe (Cucumis melo 'Improved Perfecto') is a climbing vegetable for food gardens and cottage gardens. It is typically grown as an annual. It is tender to cold, and the first hard frost will kill it. This plant likes full sun and average to moist, loamy or clay soil. It grows at a moderate pace and blooms from early to late summer. The flowers attract bees.
Pairs well with Hungarian Heart Tomato tomato, Peaches and Cream corn, and Long Island Mammoth dill.