I don’t know if these compost pile cantaloupe vines are going to make it:

Compost pile cantaloupes!

Like their cousins the squashes, melons thrive in compost piles.

It seems to me that I should just start throwing rotten melons and squash onto compost heaps and quit trying to nicely plant them in my beds… they always do better in the compost anyhow.

UPDATE: I write a LOT more on compost and compost pile gardening in my book Compost Everything.