Watermelon, as a summer food, many flower friends say they want to try to grow it at home. But the planting of watermelon is different from other flowers and plants. It is not difficult or simple. Let's follow the steps below~
Balcony watermelon planting steps of balcony watermelon planting: 1. Use a larger flower plate to load the soil in the field (preferably vegetable garden soil). The soil should be loose. If possible, it is best to put some rotten organic fertilizer.
2. Buy seeds of small watermelons (such as black beauty, Huang Xiaoyu, etc.). If you eat the seeds left by watermelons, the melons may not look like the original, because today's watermelons are hybrids. It is difficult for large watermelons to grow as they should on the balcony.
3. The seeds shall be soaked in water for 3-4 hours, and then sown into the watered soil and covered with dry soil (do not water immediately after covering the soil, otherwise the soil will harden and the seedlings will be difficult to come out).
Watermelon vines bloom on the balcony
4. After the seedlings are unearthed, they shall be watered according to the normal management. The water shall not be too much to prevent rotten roots.
5. When the melon seedlings grow long, straighten out the vines in one direction, or pull them up with a bamboo rod or rope, and let the tendrils roll on the bamboo rod or rope, so that the melon seedlings can grow upward.
6. Fertilization: it's better to use commercially available fertilizer to recover Hefei. You can also pour some rice washing water at ordinary times.
Balcony watermelon
7. Pollination: there are two kinds of watermelon flowers: female flowers and male flowers. After watermelon blooms, smear the male flowers that open on the same day on the female flowers that open on the same day, and let the pollen of the male flowers scatter on the stigma of the female flowers, which is auxiliary pollination. This is very important. If you plant melons on the balcony, you can't bear melons without pollination.
8. When watermelon begins to grow, if the vine is pulled up with a bamboo rod or rope, it should be hung with a net bag, otherwise the vine will break when the melon grows up.
9. When the melon is fully grown and the pattern on the skin begins to become clear, it can be harvested.
Note: don't be greedy when planting watermelon. Generally speaking, just leave one seedling in a pot.
Balcony watermelon planting
Expand knowledge - the function of watermelon: 1. Watermelon skin can remove oil stain. Because watermelon peel contains a kind of crude fat, its components can be combined with oil to achieve the effect of removing oil.
2. The complete watermelon can be refrigerated for about 15 days. In summer, the watermelon should not be refrigerated for more than 2 hours in the refrigerator. It will taste better in cool water.
3, diabetes, urine turbid, use watermelon skin, wax gourd peel sixteen grams, twelve grams of trichosanthin, water fried clothes.
4. Thirteen grams of dried watermelon and ten grams of cassia seed were used for hypertension. Water was fried instead of tea.
5. Alcoholism, dizziness and thirst after drinking, drink a bowl of watermelon juice.