Go beyond watermelon and cantaloupe with these juicy-sweet melon varieties, including Crenshaw, Christmas, and Canary melon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Various types of melons - Static Media/Shutterstock/Getty Rich and juicy, melons are powerhouses of both flavor and nutrition.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watermelon is a must at every summer soiree, and if you’ve tasted it before, it should be no mystery why. To pick a ripe one at ...

For melons in general, Dudley says at the store, you should also look for sugar cracks at the stem scar end of the melon, as well as no stem attached to it. "Smell for the fragrance of melon at the ...

There's a watermelon variety for every garden size.

Choosing a sweet melon is less about luck and more about knowing what to look for. Melons may look alike on the surface, but it is the little things, such as weight, colour, appearance, texture, and ...

So many summer fruits and vegetables take on iconic status for the season. Tomatoes! Corn! Peaches! Summer squash! Do I need to put one on a pedestal above the others? Certainly not. Let’s just say ...

Let’s be honest, so am I. By Tejal Rao While working on this article, Tejal Rao cut into a dozen cantaloupes and muskmelons. Alex Weiser popped a single, half-squashed, dark Persian mulberry into his ...

Watermelon is the country's most popular melon, with cumulative annual consumption hovering around 5 billion pounds. On the cantaloupe front, Americans on average consume about 6 to 7 pounds of it ...