Pumpkin planting techniques

In the Yuan Dynasty, Jia Ming also mentioned "pumpkin" in "Dietary Instructions". He said: "Pumpkin is sweet and warm. Eating too much can cause beriberi and jaundice. Eating the meat of the same sheep is irritating. Avoid eating with pork liver, red beans and buckwheat noodles. "

Planting time: Pumpkin is a kind of plant that likes to grow in warm environment and is suitable for short sunshine. Pumpkin has strong drought tolerance, but it is afraid of waterlogging, but it can adapt to most soils. If you want to grow pumpkins well, the first trick is to control the planting time of pumpkins. Usually, if pumpkins are planted in spring, they should be planted in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Grain Rain. That is, from April to May, if covered with greenhouses or plastic films. Then the planting time can be advanced appropriately, and the spring sowing varieties are mainly early maturity, cold resistance and high yield.

Picking the heart to prevent white growth: when the vines of pumpkin grow to more than two meters long, pay attention to picking the heart. It is necessary to remove the growing point of the main vine to promote the main vine to grow branches and improve the flowering and fruiting rate of pumpkin. Then we should also pay attention to avoid excessive growth of melons and vines. If the vines grow excessively, the number of pumpkins will decrease. Therefore, it is necessary to control the amount of nitrogen fertilizer and appropriately increase the amount of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer. We can cut a small hole about 30cm in the root of pumpkin vine, and then put a piece of charcoal in it, which can effectively prevent the vine from growing white.

Scaffolding: Pumpkins are climbing plants, so scaffolding is also very important. We should observe the growth of pumpkin vines every day. When the vines of pumpkin grow to about 3 meters, they should be put on the shelves in time. Because the fruit of pumpkin is heavy. Therefore, the melon holder must be strong enough to bear the weight of all pumpkins and melons. Improving the permeability between pumpkin vines can effectively reduce pests and diseases and increase the yield. It can also prevent pumpkins and melons from piling up and rotting underground.

Spray on the top and spray on the bottom: the fruit of pumpkin is relatively large, so we should pay attention to topdressing in the fruiting period to improve the yield and quality of pumpkin. When topdressing, foliar fertilizer should be sprayed on the upper part of the plant and fertilizer should be sprayed on the lower roots. When the pumpkin bears fruit, we should spray foliar fertilizer every 10 days or so. When spraying, you should pay attention to spraying on the back of leaves, not directly spraying on pumpkins, so as to prevent the melon from rotting and causing the yield to drop. It is best to spray it in the morning and evening, because the temperature is high at noon, which is easy to cause the liquid medicine to evaporate too quickly and reduce the effect of spraying fertilizer.