When is the best time to eat pumpkin?

1. Pumpkin is a kind of plant that likes temperature and short sunshine. It is drought-resistant and waterlogging-tolerant, and has wide adaptability to soil. Generally, planting pumpkins in spring should be carried out between the solar terms in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Grain Rain, and the sowing time this year is April-May. If plastic film mulching sowing or greenhouse seedling raising is carried out, the sowing time can be earlier, and early maturity, cold resistance and high yield varieties should be selected for spring sowing.

2. Pumpkin planting and soil preparation. Pumpkin is also a crop that should be avoided, so when planting in a large area, you should choose plots that have not been planted with pumpkin for 2~3 years, preferably sandy loam in acidic soil, and avoid beet stubble. Before planting, water the plot, apply base fertilizer when the soil moisture is suitable, give priority to with decomposed organic fertilizer, and cooperate with NPK compound fertilizer. After applying the base fertilizer, deep ploughing, fine harrowing and leveling the soil, and fully mixing the base fertilizer with the soil to make a wide and long border suitable for sowing.

3, pumpkin sowing preparation. Before sowing, dry pumpkin seeds for 1~2 days, and remove withered and damaged seeds. Soak the seeds in clean water for half an hour after sun drying, then soak them in 0. 1% potassium permanganate solution for disinfection and sterilization for about half an hour, then soak the washed pumpkin seeds in water at 55℃ and keep stirring, and continue soaking for 3 hours after the water temperature drops to about 30℃, and then put the seeds at 30℃ to accelerate germination 1~2 days, during which the seeds are kept moist.