In cultivation of bush pumpkins there is nothing unusual. Dishes from this vegetable turn out very tasty and useful therefore owners of kitchen gardens and country sites should pay attention to it.
There are several rules, conforming to which it is possible to receive good harvest of bush pumpkins. First of all, it is necessary to choose the suitable site with good fertile and friable soil on which grew potatoes, bean cultures or cabbage before. The bed for bush pumpkins has to be lit well with the sun, and the soil should not dry up as this vegetable very much loves moisture. And that water did not stand in the earth, it is desirable to make drainage layer.
It is better to prepare bed under bush pumpkins in the fall, introducing organic fertilizers and lime for its raskisleniye there if that is demanded by the soil. Chlorine-containing fertilizers under this culture cannot be introduced as bush pumpkins do not love this element.
Bush pumpkins grow up through seedling or sow seeds directly in soil. When landing it is necessary to consider possibility of spring frosts at which gentle plants of bush pumpkins can die. Directly in landing hole it is possible to fill a little ashes which makes positive impact on vegetable and perniciously affects wreckers of bush pumpkins. After crops of seeds or landing of seedling it is necessary to carry out watering.
Care for bush pumpkins
Special attention should be paid on waterings of plant. It is impossible to water bush pumpkins on flowers and ovaries. Plants can ache. Water bush pumpkins only with warm water. At insufficient watering in fruits the content of sugars decreases.
Scarification is carried out carefully not to damage the superficial root system of plant. That fruits have not decayed, under them it is recommended to enclose plates or other material.
At some grades of bush pumpkins the leaves grow very big and that they did not close fruits from the sun necessary for them, it is better to remove them, prishchipyvy 2-3 leaves in the morning. Besides, it will allow insects to pollinate much more flowers. And here side escapes at bush pumpkins do not prishchipyvat.
Young, a little immature bush pumpkins are much more tasty than completely ripened fruits. Therefore most often these vegetables collect, so far they are small.