Planting time and techniques of wax gourd

Wax gourd is a green and healthy vegetable, which is used by many families to cook and cook soup. Eating more wax gourd can clear away heat and reduce swelling and is rich in nutrition. Many farmers will plant wax gourd. Let's take a look at the planting time and technology of wax gourd.

First, planting time

Wax gourd is generally grown in the south, and it is very suitable for planting in spring and autumn. Generally planted in early January or early July, sandy loam soil with sufficient fertilizer and convenient drainage and irrigation is more suitable for seedling cultivation.

II. Planting techniques

1. Sowing: after the seedlings are raised successfully, they are placed in the open field for transplanting. After a disinfection, the wax gourd seeds are put into a room with a suitable temperature to accelerate germination, and after the seeds are slowly exposed, they can be sown. When raising seedlings, you can choose a nutrition cup to carry, and then cover a layer of film for heat preservation. After the seedlings grow 3-5 true leaves, they can lift the film and refine the seedlings, and continue to transplant in the morning when the weather is clear.

two。 Planting: the planting work is usually carried out in the first ten days of March, and the field is crushed and then raised to a height of 1.2m wide and 0.5m high, which has a lot to do with the subsequent irrigation. In every 60cm of the field, dig a small ditch at an appropriate distance with a shovel, then bury some dung into the dug ditch as base fertilizer, and then cover it with fine soil, so as to prevent the roots of the seedlings from touching feces and burning roots.

3. Scaffolding: when melon vines grow to the size of 30cm, they need to build a frame to draw vines, which is generally built into a 1.5m-high bamboo frame, which is tied with a crossbar to fix it. Because wax gourd takes a long time to bear melon, and too many vines are too heavy, it is easy to crush the bamboo frame, so it is necessary to remove the excess vines at the right time. 23-25 nodes are left on the vines of the main melons, which is beneficial to the high yield of melons.

4. Water and fertilizer management: wax gourd in the seedling stage needs more water and fertilizer, appropriate in the spring warm morning and evening are drenched with water, if the weather is relatively cold, do not water. When the melon vine is set up, it needs to be watered in the right amount almost every day, and the amount of water is exactly half the depth of the ditch when the weather is clear. Wax gourd does not need excessive water and fertilizer during the growing vine, but it is necessary to pay attention to whether the fertilizer is sufficient or not from flowering to fruiting. After melon is formed or even before harvest, compound fertilizer is sprayed once or twice every 15 days, especially after heavy rain, try not to spray nitrogen fertilizer alone, pay attention to multiple fertilizers.

5. Diseases and insect pests: the most devastating disease of wax gourd is Fusarium wilt, because even if we disinfect the soil, this pathogen can survive for more than 5 years. Generally speaking, before planting, the seeds need to be disinfected and sterilized before sprouting. It is necessary to disinfect the whole field with formalin before sowing and to sterilize it again after planting. If you find that melon seedlings are still infected with germs, you need to clean them up in time and open them to a distance and burn them centrally.

Wax gourd planting and management are relatively simple, the cost of both planting is very low, suitable for southern farmers to grow, and wax gourd is a daily vegetable, sales are also very good.