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The secret number one: double coating
Watermelon and melons are planted in open ground to a depth of three to four centimeters: watermelon and a half or two meters, melons - by meter. Sow in early May, so they had plenty of time to mature. And be sure to dress the young culture, because there is still quite likely to be frost and landings may be killed.
Planting cover the first liter bottle made of plastic, in which the bottom should be cut. The bottom of her okuchte sand and through the throat pour warm water. On top of the bottles put one more (5-liter). Get original matryoshka, retains heat.
When cultures formed the first true leaf, three seedlings in each well of strongest save. Thin out the culture, carefully pour and cover now 5tilitrovymi bottles. Do not rush to remove them at the beginning of summer - let the plants to bask under the cap until the end of the first summer month.
The secret number two: a place in the sun
Land for melons need light, sandy. It is important that melons could fall a lot of sunlight. Therefore, the next should not grow any trees and bushes.
If the fruit began to ripen, shade them, so as not to burn in the sun. "Help out" Lopukhovs leaves or sheets of newspaper - put them on top of the plants in hot weather.
The secret number three: in the side board
Melon plants rot fear that plagued them in the shade. From the fact that damp, they can rot and fruit and shoots. This should not be allowed, so under melons and watermelon every place the board so that the culture does not touch the ground. At the root collar sprinkle two or three of a handful of sand.
The secret number four
The root system of melon plants is taken deep into the soil - in the heat and drought they are in a similar way to "get" the water. But in the north, which are located close to the ground water, a long root system can play a bad joke - the roots, reaching the aquifer, are beginning to rot.
It is necessary to "force" the root system to develop not in depth and in width. To this end, the culture is not watered by the root system, and in the grooves, which are necessary to make a middle position between rows.
Do not overdo it with watering. They are necessary only when it is very hot. Soil and proryhlit not forget to mulch the next day after watering, so as not to form a crust.
Five trick: cut the whip
Many fruits cold rather short summer period will not be able to mature bush will spend on them all the energy crops would suffer considerable damage. Therefore, in every culture, keep no more than six fetuses.
In melon female flowers are formed on the main whip - her store, remove the side. In dynek also cut the main scourge of the fifth-sixth leaf.
Growing melons this method, you will collect the harvest at the end of the summer.
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