Do you like watermelon? I'm sure that, yes! It is impossible to remain indifferent to its fragrant and juicy pulp! This symbol of summer, he regularly appears on the table as a welcome treat.
Modern scientific achievements allow yourself to grow watermelons in the garden. To this end, it is not necessary to live in the south, enough to know a few tricks.
Growing watermelons
Choosing seeds! Depend on them too much, so we choose meticulously! For all regions except the South, should choose varieties with a maturation period of 70-90 days.
Universal recommendations:
- "Skorik"
- "Honey giant"
- "Spark"
- "Sugar Baby".
They are suitable for different climatic zones and different capriciousness.
Everyone definitely recommend checking germination! The sad experience of the past year suggests that it is better to take away the empty seeds than nervous waiting for germination. Make it very easy: take a glass of water, diluted with about one teaspoon of salt without slides and pour seeds. I recommend to wait an hour, but, in principle, already after 5 minutes you can see how some would fall on one thing, and others - will emerge. Surfaced seeds unfit, they will not germinate. Those who passed the selection it is necessary to wash and dry, and then let the seedlings.
How to treat
Watermelons can be sown in sowing the ground, they will be more resistant to stress and cooling, but the harvest mature later than when planting seedlings, and provided early autumn awaited fruits can not wait. I liked more the result from the seedlings and planting in the greenhouse, watermelons really gone, so I share the accumulated life hacking!
- Do not fall in love with fertilizers! Especially nitrogen! He would provoke an abundant growth of leaves rather than fruit. Better to remember people's ways: sprinkle the ashes to make organics. After the appearance of the ovaries cease feeding.
- We do not hope for the bees! In watermelon have male and female flowers, they can be distinguished by any, the "girls" have small arbuziki at the bottom. Pollination to happen, and if all of a sudden bees are engaged in flower "plantations" take the brush. We approach every new brush to paint. Carefully dip it in the male flower, pollen remains on the villi, which are transferred to the women's quarters. You can just rip the male flower, break lobes (for convenience), and they pollinate female flowers (see. a photo)
- Be sure to form a bush! Do not give him grow and wasting time. We begin to do this in dry weather, when the fruits are much like a hen's egg. Maintain one main and two side whip, on each of them, leave the two watermelon, or even one, so we increase the chances to have time to get the fruit even in harsh maritime and Siberian conditions. All attempts to branch out and start gently remove suckers!
- We cherish the fruits! When the fruit will become something like a fist, you should think about their future safety. Someone recommended to lay the plywood, but it will absorb water and rot, so I no longer liked life hacking with a net or a shopping bag. In her place the watermelon and suspended. So it is uniformly illuminated by the sun, and the growth and weight gain will be dry.
Watermelon is not a particularly complex plants to care. He needs to provide heat and the sun, and in return we get a wonderful juicy fruit with a fragrant flesh.
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