Planting techniques of Hami Melon

Cantaloupe is one of the common fruits, we often eat, it is a change in melon, also known as snow melon, tribute melon, is an excellent variety of melon. Its fruit is big and delicious, among which cantaloupe is the most famous, so do you know how to grow it? Let's take a look.

1. Preparation for sowing

Cantaloupe is not suitable for continuous cropping, it is best to rotate with other crops for more than five years, and it is not suitable to plant cucurbitaceae, legume and eggplant crops around the planting area. The planting land requires sandy loam with loose soil, general fertility and rich organic matter. Before planting, it is best to carry out summer ploughing and autumn ploughing, deep ploughing 25-30cm, and winter irrigation to benefit alkali and mature soil, which can eliminate weeds and overwintering pests in the soil. In the last ploughing, 2000-3000 kg of rotten organic fertilizer and an appropriate amount of compound fertilizer were applied per mu, mixed well with soil, leveled in the rake and made a good drain. The plot should be watered a week before sowing, which is the key to ensure that the seedlings are complete, must be fully watered, and cover the ground.

2. Sowing seeds

Before sowing, select excellent varieties and do a good job of seed treatment. after carefully selecting the seeds, soak the seeds with 200 times formalin for 2 hours, and then rinse them with clean water for 2-3 times. In the areas with high incidence of virus disease, after disinfection and sterilization, the virus was treated at 40 ℃ dry heat for 24 hours, and then germinated and sown. Sowing time must be timely, when the underground soil temperature is stable at 14 degrees, sowing can be done by hole sowing. The plant-row distance of the hole depends on the variety, generally the plant spacing is between 45-60cm, and the sowing depth also depends on the soil condition. The soil is sandy and can be sowed deeply, while the soil layer is deep and sticky and can be sowed shallowly. Generally, 2-3 seeds are used for each hole and 3-4cm is covered with soil.

3. Buckle the shed

Buckle shed frame materials can choose bamboo, bamboo pole, cold-drawn wire can be, but generally choose bamboo, arch shed height of about 100 cm, in order to facilitate the staff to enter the exercise, the bamboo pieces will be sharpened at both ends to insert into the ground, and then used to connect each arch with hemp rope and plastic rope, and finally covered with plastic. The plastic must be tiled to maintain light transmittance, and after it is covered, it should be compacted with clods to avoid wind damage.

4. Field management

Generally, the seedlings can emerge after sowing for 3-5 days, then the membrane should be broken in time, and the seedlings should be checked and replanted in time. When the seedlings grow to 1-2 true leaves, the seedlings should begin to grow. Leave 2 pigs in each hole, remove diseased seedlings and weak seedlings between seedlings, set seedlings when 4-5 true leaves, and leave one healthy seedling in each hole. Weeding should be done well in the seedling stage. Intertillage can loosen the soil, increase soil permeability and promote root growth. Weeding can prevent weeds from seizing the nutrients of seedlings and make the seedlings grow normally.

The above is the introduction of cantaloupe planting technology. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about planting, please follow us.