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Hydroponic melons moved outdoors

Lows at night are in the 50s and highs in the day are in the 70s at this time in March.

I've now moved to the outdoors the melons that I started in hydroponic buckets back in February.

After about a week of hardening off, they will be spread out in the field.

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