What's the best technique for farming melons?

Question

I got some melon seeds from an abandoned mine chest. I naively planted them as I would wheat seeds, in a patch of grass, altogether. I came back to find that they'd matured into fully grown plants, but there wasn't a melon to be seen. What should I be doing?

Answer

To grow Melons, you need spaces to plant the Melons Seeds in, and Farmland blocks adjacent to those where the Melons can grow onto. Melons grow slowly until their stem grows to the maximum size, at which point a Melon grows on a Farmland block adjacent to where the stem grew out of (where you planted the seed). The Minecraft Wiki page on Melons has a nice section on farming them. They suggest using an arrangement like this:

S S S S S S S S S |
# # # # # # # # # |
# # # # # # # # # | S = Watermelon seed
S S S S S S S S S | # = Farmland
S S S S W S S S S | W = Water block
# # # # X # # # # | X = Random block
# # # # # # # # # |
S S S S S S S S S |

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