Winter Melon

The Winter Melon is an upgrade of the Melon-pult that damages and freezes large groups of zombies at once.

Suburban Almanac Entry
 Melon Pult  Winter Melons do heavy damage and slow groups of zombies.

Damage: heavy Range: lobbed

Firing Speed: 1/2x Special: melons damage and freeze nearby enemies on impact Winter Melon tries to calm his nerves. He hears zombies approach. Will he make it? Will anyone make it? Recharge: very slow

Cost: 200

Strategy
The Winter Melon is one of the most useful auto-fire plants in the game, but the best plant in terms of instant damage is the Cob Cannon, while the Gloom-shroom is at the top of the list in terms of overall DPS (damage per second) output. The Winter Melon is an upgrade of the Melon-pult, although the attacking rate is half times that of a Peashooter, and the same as a Melon-pult, but it can freeze zombies within a half-square radius, and the damage, despite what it says in the almanac, is the same as that of a normal Melon-pult (heavy). A single Winter Melon is strong enough to kill a Gargantuar by itself, partly due to the slowing effect. The Melon-pult and Snow Pea combo has a similar effect, but the Snow Pea can only affect one zombie at a time.

Survival Mode
The Winter Melon is very useful in Survival Mode, especiallly Survival: Hard or Endless, because there are lots of zombies and the splash damage will be very useful. Also, strong zombies such as Football Zombies or Giga-Gargantuars often appear, so with a few Winter Melons they'll will make it much more easier to kill them.

Achievement
The Melon-y Lane achievement can be earned by planting a Winter Melon on every lane in one level.

Trivia

 * Winter Melons inflict higher damage than Melon-pults on unarmored zombies, but the splash damage is normal.
 * When the Winter Melon recharges and has enough Sun, but you don't have any Melon-pult on the lawn, a message will appear saying "Plant a Winter Melon first" instead of "Plant a Melon-pult first" which the latter should be correct. This has been fixed in the "Game of the Year" Edition.
 * It is the one of the two Upgrade Plants that cost less Sun than the plants they upgrade; the other plant is the Gold Magnet.
 * The Winter Melon, the Ice-shroom and the Snow-pea are the only plants with icicles on them, and the only plants capable of slowing zombies.