Planting techniques of towel gourd in early spring

Towel gourd is one of the common vegetables in our life, and early spring towel gourd has excellent planting prospects, but its cultivation is also fastidious, so how to plant early spring towel gourd? Let's get to know each other with the editor.

1. Planting preparation

Early spring towel gourd to choose early-maturing, disease-resistant, high-quality varieties, towel gourd growth temperature of 25-35 degrees, so generally in March greenhouse sowing seedlings, April planting, July listing. First of all, put the towel gourd seeds in warm water of 50-55 degrees, stir continuously and then 10-15 degrees until the water temperature cools to 40 degrees. Change the water every 10 hours after soaking for a day. After soaking the seeds, rub and wash the seeds and remove them. Wrap them with gauze and put them into 25-28 degrees to accelerate germination. Sprouting is to rinse with warm water once a day until it is white before sowing.

2. Sowing and raising seedlings

When sowing, mix the field soil and farm manure at 1:1 and fill it into the seedling bed. The filling should be compacted in the lower part, loose in the upper part, and watered once when sowing. The towel gourd seeds that have been germinated are evenly sown on the seedling bed, covering about 1.5 cm of soil, covering plastic film, and keeping warm in the shed if it is cold, about 250-300 seeds per mu. Keep the temperature 25-30 degrees after sowing to facilitate seedling emergence, generally 4-5 days after emergence, keep the temperature between 15-25 degrees after emergence, and at the same time do a good job of watering to promote its growth, watering should pay attention to the amount of watering to avoid stagnant water retting roots.

3. Colonization

Buckling the shed 20 days before planting is beneficial to thawing the soil. After thawing, sufficient mature organic fertilizer is applied as the base fertilizer. When the four true leaves of the seedlings are unfolded, the seedlings with strong growth are selected to be planted in the sunny morning. Planting is to control the plant spacing of 35-40 cm, after planting to irrigate enough bottom water, generally planting about 200 plants per mu. After planting, it is appropriate to maintain 30-35 degrees during the day and 20-25 degrees at night. Ventilation should be properly ventilated when the temperature exceeds 35 degrees during the day, and should be reduced when the temperature is less than 15 degrees.

4. Fertilizer and water management

Towel gourd likes the moist environment, so it keeps the soil moist during the growing period, watering the seedlings once a week during flowering and fruiting, and watering every 3-4 days during harvest. Watering should be carried out in the sunny morning, watering should be uniform, do not flood irrigation, towel gourd if lack of water, will lead to an increase in fiber, melon strips uneven, quality decline. In the case of sufficient base fertilizer, there are many times of topdressing, the first topdressing is carried out after slow seedling, 50-10 kg compound fertilizer is applied per mu, topdressing every 7-10 days in flowering and fruiting period, and topdressing every 2-3 days in harvest period. Topdressing can be used compound fertilizer or human feces and urine, towel gourd in the flower and fruit stage lack of fertilizer will form abnormal fruit, seriously affect the quality.

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