Any gardener dreams to grow up melon on the garden site. How to grow up juicy melon and what it is necessary to make that the fruit has not lost the sweet, and it was not too small?
The melon is the one-year, melon culture of family of pumpkin. The homeland of fruit – Central and Asia Minor. Melon form oblong or round, and color yellow, greenish, brown. At many versions on dense peel wavy pale brown strips are visible. Time of maturing varies from two to six months. Weight – from 200 g to 15-20 kg.
The advantage of melon is high – it has low-calorie pulp which strengthens hair, bones, nails, is used for prevention of rheumatism, diseases of liver, kidneys and cardiovascular system. The melon normalizes pressure. Vitamin C increases immunity.
The best place for landing of melon – solar, windless spaces. On the open ground it is better to prepare hole on the height that because of incessant rain moisture did not accumulate, and escapes did not rot. The ideal site – at the fence, with edge. When the melon blossoms, escapes on which fruits are tied expand in breadth. It is necessary to watch that shoots did not get on the next beds. The qualitative harvest will grow where earlier onions, turnip or haricot landed.
As well as for other vegetables, it is better to prepare the earth since fall: to dig up, fertilize ready compost (3-3.5 kg on 1 sq.m) or mineral fertilizers. The melon does not love poorly oxidized or clay soil – before planting seedling or seeds on bed, holes fertilize wood ashes, and for dilution of clay soil use bank sand. For complex fertilizer mix peat, humus, ashes, mineral fertilizers with phosphate and potassium in the spring. The ready soil is carefully dug over, loosened.
Seeds for melon use four year prescription. If they are fresh, there is risk that the melon will not give ovaries because of men's flowers. If you have decided to take fresh seeds, – give preference to large fruits. Clean kernels process in weak solution of manganese of 20 minutes – 1 tsps of manganic powder part on 1.5 glasses of water. The emerged seeds are thrown out. Sometimes solution of manganese replace boric liquid or sulfate zinc with 5% – kernels ret for 12 hours, then wash out, dry. The melon does not love moisture therefore it is necessary to water it not more often than 1 time a week with heated-up water – at the same time avoiding water ingress on leaves. When fruits were tied, reduce amount of liquid, at the end of season stop watering absolutely.
Pretreatment of seeds creates additional protection against wreckers. The hardening method is less often used – at several o'clock grains submerge water in 30 °C, then turn in wet towel wipes, leave for day at 15 °C then place in refrigeration chamber for 15 hours and again maintain 6 hours in heat (15-20 degrees). After the procedure of hardening, unlike seedling way, grains land in soil at once. In the middle of April, the seeds processed by solution of manganese or pine forest put in special glasses on depth of 2 cm. It is important to watch temperature in the house. To the first shoots it is necessary to support 20 degrees of heat, at night 15. As soon as in glass there is sprout, allocate the strongest, and the others cut. Excess leaves at back delete.
Before landing in the prepared bed per day, melon it is abundant water. In May when at plant not less than 4 leaflets, boring lands in the fertilized earth, keeping distance between rows not less than 50-70 cm. In two weeks after landing, fruits feed with fertilizers: norm of saltpeter 20 of Mr. water bucket, on 2 liters at the roots. In 7 days add mix from the diluted bird's dung and ashes. On the expiration of month prepare mix from superphosphate, ammonium, potash salt. At strong growth of rod the small escapes pinch, choosing stronger, if necessary do props, regularly hill and loosen the earth. In two weeks after landing, fruits feed with fertilizers: norm of saltpeter 20 of Mr. water bucket, on 2 liters at the roots. In 7 days add mix from the diluted bird's dung and ashes. You watch that the back has not decayed, and be afraid of garden wreckers: from attacks of insects of plant spray with insecticides. The maturity of melon is defined simply: fruit easily separates from fruit stem, and peel firm with characteristic strips and fragrant smell. It is not difficult to grow up melon at the correct approach – look after harvest intelligently and please relatives with sweet dessert!