What a watermelon is like cultivation. How to plant watermelon to get large, sweet fruits

• Where to grow watermelons
• When growing watermelons
• How to care for watermelon
• When collecting a crop

Watermelon is a delicious and useful berry that pleases the children and adults with its juicy flesh. You can grow watermelon in the middle lane of Russia. This magnificent culture is very thermalid, however, to grow large and sweet fruits, it is necessary to observe many nuances. So, let's tell about everything in order.

Where to grow watermelons

The place for growing watermelons needs to be chosen very carefully. It should be a sunny plot without trees and shadows. The best watermelon is growing in sandy and squealed soils, because the roots of watermelon penetrate deep inside the soil to fill in moisture and filled with sweetness. That is why the soil for growing watermelons should not be clay and dense. To make the soil more porous, it is pre-(still from autumn). The acidity of the soil of the selected area should not exceed 6.5-7 units.

It is best for landing to choose the soil in which such cultures rose like onions, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, beans, wheat grew up. Do not grow muggy cultures for two years in a row on the same site. The soil is pre-cleaned from weeds, watermelon does not like ease of vegetation.

When growing watermelons

If summer is given cold, no tricks will help grow juicy and sweet fruit. But if the year falls a lot of solar and hot days - be prepared for a good crop. The landing of watermelons is best to start at the end of May, when the soil is already free enough by the sun. If you decide to plant seedlings, then the seeds can be planted into the cups already in early May. However, the last word, anyway, behind the weather. If in the first decade of May, the heat did not come, rushing at the landing.

How to prepare seeds for planting watermelons

Consider two main ways of planting watermelons - erased and reckless.

Eat Watermelon Planting
Watermelon has very dense and hard seeds that need to be pre-grilled. To do this, pour seeds with warm water and leave for half an hour. Those seeds that have emerged after the specified time are not suitable for landing - they immediately remove them. After that, you need to cover the container with a plastic bag and leave in a warm place (under direct sunlight). It turns out imitation of a greenhouse. It is best if the temperature in the mini-greenhouse will not be descended in the afternoon below 25-30 degrees, and at night below 20 degrees.

When the seeds proceed, they can be planted into the cup. This is usually done at the end of April or in early May. Cups need to choose quite large so that the root system is spacious. Watermelon does not tolerate root damage. The ground for planting needs to be mixed with humid and mineral fertilizers. In the process of growth, seedlings need several times to feed the sprouts with fertilizers. In one cup, two seeds are usually located with the calculation of that, suddenly some kind of gentle. If both sprout grow, they are then divided.

Seedling for landing is ready in the case when the sprout is gaining at least three healthy leaflets. Planting seedlings occurs in a loose ground, a fertilized with a compost. Watermelon seedlings should be planted at least 20 cm from each other. If two sprout is planting in one hole, you need to turn them in such a way that they grow in different directions. Seedlings should not be squeezed too deep into the ground - the recesses should not exceed 10 cm. The leaves of the sprouts must remain on the surface. After planting, the sprouts should be abundantly to pour warm water so that they are better to take.

Reckless way of planting watermelons

If there are already enough warm days, it is possible to plant watermelons with a reckless way. For this, they are the same as in the previous way of planting, it is necessary to soak in warm water and leave the seeds to sort. When small crumpled sprouts appear, you can connect the landing step in the cups and sow seeds right into the soil. I would like to note once again - a reckless way to plant watermelons only in the case when the long-term weather forecast does not forecast the cold.

Seeds should be planted in the wells at a distance of 20-25 cm for 2 seeds in one hole. To obtain a good crop, you can prepare the following mixture. Mix the soil, ash and humus in the ratio of one to one. Add a few spoons of the mineral fertilizer nitroofosk to the mixture. To each well before planting sprouts, lay out one tablespoon of the prepared mixture. On top of the mixture, we put the seeds of the watermelon, and then sprinkle with humus. This is done so that the top layer of the soil is not covered with a crust. As it was said, watermelon loves loose soil, and the sprout can simply break through the sprout.

How to care for watermelon

Although the watermelon is considered a fairly unpretentious culture, to obtain a good harvest you need to comply with some aspects of watermelon care.

How to care for watermelon "

• Imitation of the greenhouse. While the sprouts were not stuffed, it is necessary to cover them with a coating material. This will allow them to gain strength and give fruit a few weeks ahead of time. To create such a small greenhouses, block small sticks on the sides of the bed and cover with a dense polyethylene film. Keep greenhouse until the end of June. Remove the film better in the gloomy day when there are no sun. This will allow plants to better adapt. If you remove the film on a sunny day, sprouts can simply burn.
• Watering. Watermelon does not like excessive irrigation because it feeds on the inner waters. He has a powerful root system that takes water from the lower layers of the soil if necessary. But the plant should not be overwhelmed, otherwise the fruits will not be obvious. The optimal frequency of watering is one or twice a week.
• Fertilizers. A week after planting seeds, they need to be filled with ammonium Selitra. For the preparation of the solution you need to dilute 20 grams of substance in ten liters of water. After the first feeding, fertilize watermelons follows three weeks, using the usual mineral complex. Along with fertilizers, it is necessary to constantly dip the soil. Watermelon vital needs loose land. In general, the gardeners advise less to walk around the wells and do not compact the Earth. Especially in the intervals between planted sprouts. The root watermelon system is quite scattered, but also quite fragile. Coming on the loose soil near the hole, you can damage the root of the plant.
• Forming. This is an important part of the care of watermelon fit. If the screens are very long, they can be tied to the racks or to nail the earth so that they do not damage from the wind. A month later, the wounds will be formed. When they become the size of a large plum, you need to leave only the largest - a few pieces. This is called pinching. This procedure is carried out with the following purpose. When the plant has a lot of fruits, it spends its strength on every fruit. Thus, we get a lot of immature and fine fruits. To get good and delicious fruits, you need to remove a few barriers at the very beginning of their growth. Normally leave no more than 5-6 fruits of watermelon from one knocker. Moreover, one should not have more than two bandy.

In the second half of summer, when watermelons begin to be angry, they can be carefully turned over from one side to another every 10 days. This will allow them as soon as possible taste and juice. If the soil under watermelons is bumping, you need to put under the fruits of small planks to reduce the area of \u200b\u200bspikes of watermelon with the ground.

When collecting a crop

Vintage is collected in August. To understand that the watermelon is ripe, you need to consider it carefully. Ripe fruits are distinguished by shiny skin, as well as a dry tail. Fruit from ripe watermelon is not hairy. If you knock on the watermelon, ripe fruit gives a characteristic deaf sound, according to which experienced gardeners understand - it's time to collect a crop!

In the rich watermelons, it can be raised about 10 plants from six holes. Of these, it grows and mature about 40 fruits of various sizes and weight. With proper care and sufficient amount of light and moisture, 90% of them are matured completely.

What can be more tastier and more pleasant than a watermelon grown, grown independently? Observe all the rules of landing, care and feeding to grow rich watermelon harvest.

In recent years, there has been a huge number of hybrids and varieties of watermelon, suitable for cultivation in conditions of open soil not only of the southern regions, but also in cold climates. To grow a muddle culture in your country, you need to attach a lot of strength and skills. Secrets of training seeds, landing and care for seedlings will help to carry out a dream, the result of which will be a large and sweet watermelon.

Preparation of the site

The choice of place is an important stage of planting watermelon, which largely determines its further growth and yield:

• watermelon loves space with a large number of light, in conditions of shading, he is poorly developing and will not be able to give high yields. For landing, solar sections are distinguished that need to be protected from wind;
• due to the highly developed root system, watermelons are distinguished by high drought resistance, landing in places with close occurrence of groundwater are unacceptable;
• for the cultivation of mesh crops, lungs are most suitable and sandy soils with neutral acidity. In areas with sour soil, the watermelon gives small fruits that are still cracking.

These plants are undemanding to the fertility of the soil, they grow well both on chernozem and on poor sandy and stony soils. Next, for obtaining large yields, well-cultural sections are needed. To do this, from autumn, the place of the future landing is drunk and fertilizers are made:

• superphosphate, azophosk (according to the instructions);
• woody wood (1 l);
• humus (5 l).

The calculation is shown on 1 m 2 of the area of \u200b\u200bthe site. Applying fertilizers before landing frees from the need for regular feeding during the growing season of the plant.

For watermelon you need to choose a well-lit place

Step-by-step instruction landing watermelon

To prepare and landing the seeds of the watermelon passed correctly, the following steps should be followed.

Selection of seeds

This is a responsible period of preparation for the sowing of watermelon, since largely determines the success of growing and obtaining fruits. A variety of varieties and hybrids allows you to choose a plant that is most adapted to the cultivation conditions in your region. Among the watermelons can differ in large or small fruits, the speed of their maturation, have different resistance to diseases.

Prepaiming seed preparation

Preparation of seeds to sowing is an important stage of cultivation of vegetable crops, especially with home cultivation, as in conditions of a limited place, the requirements for planting plants increase.

Calibration

Sorting seeds in size allows you to choose the best of them, discard small and damaged. The selection is usually carried out manually: the sowing material is scattered over a smooth surface and divided into large, medium and small. Large seeds, as a rule, contain a large supply of nutrients, which will subsequently provide good growth and high yields.

For sowing choose the largest seeds

Warming and soaking

Warming and soaking increases the speed of biochemical reactions in cells, which helps to improve the germination of seeds, the formation of a larger number of women's flowers, good growth and development of a weave.

Procedure:

1. The sowing material is poured into a bag of fabric and immerse in warm water (50-60 ° C) for 2-3 hours.
2. Then hesitated for half an hour to disinfect in a slightly heated weak solution of manganese.
3. The bag is taken out, they give a track of excess moisture.
4. Seeds lay on wet sand, cotton or paper substrate and leave in warm room. They are maintained at room temperature about 2 days before the appearance of seedlings.

If you bought treated seeds, they are not soakable and should be planted immediately into the ground.

Seaming of watermelon seeds for landing in open ground or seedlings

Hardening

To increase the resistance of plants to sharp fluctuations in temperature and obtaining earlier and abundant harvest, seed should be carried out. Most often, the sowing material is influenced by two ways:

• exposure to a constant reduced temperature. Within 1-2 days, the swollen and the proceeded watermelon seeds are kept in the refrigerator at a temperature of 0 ± 1 ° C with periodic stirring. Such hardening can also be carried out, instilling the sowing material in a small box or a bag in the snow;
• exposure to variable temperature. The swollen seeds are kept in the refrigerator at about 12 o'clock at a temperature not lower than 6 ° C, then the same period of time they must be warm at 18-20 ° C. The procedure is repeated three times.

Before sowing, the seeds are slightly dried.

Selection of capacities and soil

To avoid further transplant or dive, the seeds are seeded into separate pots or containers with a volume of at least 300 ml (the minimum height of the capacity is 12 cm, diameter - 10 cm). For planting, the soil mixture is prepared, into which in equal proportions of sand, squeeze ground and peat. To 5 liters of cooked soil added:

• dolomite flour and potassium sulfate (50 g);
• double superphosphate (100 g);
• ammonia Selitra (50 g).

Empty containers are filled with a mixture so that there are about 3 cm between the soil surface and the edge. As the plant grows the plant in the pot can be added.

To avoid further transplant or dive, seeds are sown in separate pots

Sowing seed watermelon

To know how to plant a watermelon correctly, depending on climatic conditions, sowing is produced through seedlings or directly into open soil.

Seeding seeds

The best time for landing is the mid-end of April. Sustained seeds with a root of 1-1.5 cm are seeded to a depth of 3 cm for 4-5 pieces into each container, the earth is sprinkled on top, they are poured and covered with glass or film. The pots are displayed on the lightest window, preferably southern.

It is important that there are no drafts in the room.

Sustained seeds with a root of 1-1.5 cm sowed to a depth of 3 cm for 4-5 pieces in each container

Landing seeds in open ground

Directly into open soil prepared seeds can only be heated in the southern regions with a warm climate. Optimal for landing time - when the air temperature is established within 12-14 ° C, and the soil warms down to a depth of 10 cm. Sowing is better to produce in the last decade of May, at this time the probability of cooling is significantly reduced. In the cold ground, the seed germination time increases, as a result of which shoots may die or infected by pathogenic microflora. For planting watermelons prepare a well with a diameter of about 1 m and a depth of at least 30 cm, they contribute to it:

• humid or compost (1 kg);
• ash (1 tbsp. l.);
• nitroammophosphate (1 tsp);
• in the heavy soil additionally contribute, everything is mixed.

In the prepared wells sighted sprown seeds of watermelons. Prior to this, approximately 2 liters of water poured to the landing site of seeds. After it is absorbed, 4-5 seeds are laid out at a depth of 3-6 cm, the earth is falling asleep and compacted. Circling after sowing do not watered. To avoid the appearance of the peel, which makes it difficult to yield the sprouts to the surface, the soil is mulched by humus.

The young seedlings need a lot of water, so they are abundantly watered as the soil is burned, but not more often 1 time in 7 days. The required depth of soil moisturizing is at least 25-30 cm. Shortly after the appearance of sprouts, first thinning is carried out, leaving the strongest plants, in phase 3-4 of these leaves repeat the procedure. As a result, 1-2 plants should remain in the well.

Watermelon, grown by direct sowing in the soil, is more resistant to stress, including drought and temperature drops, but the crop will always be matured later than that of a seaside culture.

The well for sowing seeds of watermelon into open soil is prepared with a diameter of about 1 m, the soil is stirred in it with humus and mineral fertilizers to a depth of about 30 cm

Care for seedy

So that plants in the pots grow well and developed, they create optimal conditions:

• the daily temperature should be about 25 ° C, at night it is reduced to 20 ° C. Under such conditions, the sprouts will appear after 7-10 days;
• the required duration of the daylight is at least 12 hours. The lack of lighting contributes to the stretching of seedlings and can cause their death, on cloudy days of the plant is recommended to highlight phytolammes;
• after the seedlings rose, weakly removed, leaving one sprout;
• watering seedlings are produced in several techniques, avoiding water from entering the leaves;
• in the phase 3 of the present leaves, the plant is fed by a victorious cow, mixed with water in a ratio of 1:10 (or liquid complex fertilizer).

In compliance with these rules, the seedlings will grow strong and healthy and easily takes on a new place.

After the rejection of weak seedlings in a pot, one plant should remain

Transplant seedlings in open ground

By the time of transplanting seedlings to the garden, their age is 30-35 days, at least 4 sheets are formed in the plant. 10 days before the transplantation on the section, seedlings are ordered: bring to open air, with each day thereby increasing the time of stay. For 3-4 days before landing in the ground, the plants contain in the open air, and in the evening before the transplant is abundantly watered.

After quenching seedlings of watermelons, it becomes more resistant to temperature fluctuations.

In mid-June, plants are planted at a permanent place. The transplant is carried out in the morning: the watermelon together with the earthen room is removed from the tank, planting in the well, then watered and covered with a film. Root neck seedlings do not plunge.

After planting seedlings, the earthlow must be completely closed soil, the root neck of watermelon leaves open

Video: Transplant seedlings of watermelons to open ground

Watermelon landing time on the lunar calendar for 2020

So that the plant grow well and develops, it is important not only to prepare the ground, but also choose the right time for landing. Often, vegetables are resorted to the help of the lunar calendar. Favorable dates of 2020:

• the most positive on the growth of Bakhchyeva will affect the landing 3, 10th and 11 March;
• in April, a favorable time for planting seedlings are 9, 15 and 23 numbers;
• in May, watermelons are recommended to land 13, 14 and 20 numbers;
• planting garden crops is undesirable in days of noving and full moon:
  • April 8 and 25,
  • March 7 and 22.

Scheme and depth of planting

There are different schemes for planting watermelons in open ground, their choice affects:

• method of cultivation (watering or without artificial irrigation). Grown without watering plants occupy a smaller area, so they can be placed more tightly;
• watermelon variety (Early or Lovely Vech);
• estimated mass of the fetus (3-5 kg \u200b\u200bor more than 8 kg). The higher the density of the landing of watermelons - the smallest fruit grow.

When planting watermelons, take into account that the plants are widely expanded and should not interfere with each other:

• in the garden, early varieties are placed at a distance of 1.4x1.4 m or 1.4x0.7 m;
• watermelons of the mediterranean and lateral varieties are planted according to the circuit 2x2 m; 2.1x1.4 m; 2.1x1 m.

A smaller figure shows the distance between plants when landing, large - between rows.

The higher the landing density of watermelons - the smallest fruit grow

The depth of sealing of the sowing material into open soil can range from 3 to 8 cm and depends:

• from their size (the smallest seed, the less landing depth);
• soil type (on light soils sealing deeper than heavy);
• soil moisture (seeds are laid on a moisturized layer).

Seedlings are planted slightly deeper than when growing in a pot so that the root neck is not damaged by the winds.

Neighbors and predecessors

In order to be guaranteed to get a good crop of fringe crops, you need not only to follow the landing rules, but also to know about the compatibility of plants with each other:

• watermelon badly tolerates a gusty wind. To create a shelter, corn, peas or beans are planted around the site;
• all representatives of the Pumpkin family, including watermelon, are compatible with the landings of black radish. This plant highlights phytoncides, which prevent the appearance of sputum ticks;
• an excellent spoke of the watermelon is a melon;
• it is well compatible with potatoes and oatmeal;
• corn and peas improve the growth and taste of watermelons;
• osay and Mary contribute to the growth of melting plants;
• watermelon grows well next to greenery landings (the exception is parsley);
• the phytoncides of tomatoes are distilled off to the wind, sawers and flames.

All representatives of Bakhchyev are very growing very much, so there is a better planting of cultures next to them, which give an early harvest.

Landing some plants next to watermelon negatively affects its growth and yield, so it is necessary to approach the choice of neighbors:

• bakhchy cultures grow well on open, sunny plots, so they are not planted near the trees and shrubs that shades the plot;
• watermelon does not like the neighborhood of strawberries and representatives of Parenov (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, pepper);
• it removes a large amount of minerals from the soil, so growing watermelon next to a swamp, carrots, garlic and radishes is not recommended;
• watermelons should not be planted together with related plants - pumpkins or zucchi, as well as cucumbers.

An important agrotechnical admission is the crop rotation of plants. With the alternation of melting culture with a frequency of 3-4 years, the number of pests and diseases, as well as weeds, is significantly reduced. It is not recommended to grow watermelon on one field for more than 2 years in a row, optimal precursors for it are:

• winter wheat,
• perennial herbs,
• corn on green food,
• radish,
• dill,
• basil,
• tomatoes
• celery,
• roots,
• cabbage.

It is strictly not recommended to plant melting cultures on a plot where miles, patissons or zucchini grew. After collecting the fruits of the watermelon, this site is better to plant bean cultures (podcol, peas) or garlic.

Watermelon Playing Methods

Depending on the climatic conditions of the region and the presence of free space, watermelons is grown in different ways.

In a bucket

In this way, watermelon can be raised at home. To do this, first grow seedlings in a small pot. Further work is carried out like this:

1. Prepare a bucket with a volume of 16 liters (you can wooden box with a size of 50x50x30 cm).
2. Capacity is filled with fertile soil with neutral acidity mixed with perlite in a 2: 1 ratio. It will protect the soil from the stress of water.
3. After the appearance of the third real leaflet seedlings, the plant along with an earthen room is transplanted in a bucket.
4. Optimum daytime temperature - 25-30 ° C, night - 18-20 ° C. Such conditions are created in spring-summer time on a closed balcony.
5. Watering should be moderate, watermelon does not like the convergence.
6. Every 2 weeks fertilize the soil. For this, liquid fertilizers for vegetables are suitable (1 liter of water add 1 tsp. Fertilizers). For irrigation, only fresh solution is prepared.
7. At the stage of formation, the binding is carried out the second feeder with an increased content of potassium and phosphorus, and after 2-3 weeks - the third.
8. The side shoots of the watermelon pinch, leaving only the main whip.
9. In the watermelon blossom phase, artificial pollination is carried out: Men's flowers with stamens break, remove the petals and pollinate female flowers (with thickening downstairs), touching the sticks of pestles.
10. After tying fruits on the plant, no more than two berries leave, the rest are removed.
11. The fruit of about 10 cm is placed in the mesh and are tied to the support.

Approximately three months later, you can shoot a crop of delicious berries weighing about 1 kg.

According to the author, this method can be viewed as a hobby than a way to produce delicious berries. In the conditions of the apartment it is unlikely to provide the plant optimal temperature conditions, except during the hot summer period on the balcony. The arms grown at home is unlikely to delight the aroma and sweetness of the pulp. Those who still decide on the experiment, I advise you to make a drainage hole at the bottom of the capacitance to protect the roots from the convergence. And to determine whether the watermelon needs in watermelves, it can be recommended to slightly raise a bucket with a plant, focusing on its weight of soil moisture.

On a sleeper

In the southern regions, bulk plants are cultivated in the open ground, in this case they do not require garters. When growing in the northern regions with a cool and humid climate, you can use taperanels. Especially relevant for small areas, where there is little light and probable moisture. In such places it is recommended to grow watermelons of fine-cooled hybrids and varieties:

1. According to both sides, the beds are stopped by a height of at least 1.5 m, between them, rings or twine are stretched.
2. Others are tied to stretched rope, which descend to plants and serve as a support for watermelon stems, determining the direction of growth.
3. The end of the lowered ropes is fixed on the plant stem or on Earth.
4. The main stem is tied up in the vertical direction, the top does not pinch. All side shoots are removed, as women's flowers are formed mainly on the main stem.
5. The grown fruits are placed in the grid, then individually tied up to the grid, so as not to fall under their own weight.

With the formation of 2-3 fruits in size with a chicken egg, the rest of the margins are removed, since more watermelons will not have time to grow.

Trellier is relevant for small sites, where there is little light and probable moisture

Under passing material

The cultivation of watermelons under observer material was particularly popular. Additional spending on the film are compensated by the benefits of this technology, among which:

• protection of seedlings from weeds in the early stages of growth in open soil;
• reduction of daily fluctuations in temperature;
• the accumulation and preservation of the soil moisture.

The use of observer material makes it possible to reduce the ripening period of fruits for 7-10 days. This method is especially relevant in conditions of short or wet summer and can be applied in several versions:

Spanbond you can cover the plants right on the weapons, protecting on possible frosts

Features of planting watermelons in different regions

Watermelon is a thermal-loving culture, which requires a rather long period of vegetation. This should be taken into account when cultivating in regions with various climatic conditions.

In the southern regions (south of Ukraine, Krasnodar region, the Republic of Transcaucasia), watermelons are traditionally grown in the open way, which contributes to a large amount of warm and sunny days necessary for the growing plant and the rapid development of fruits. After preparing for sowing, seeds are planted directly into open ground.

In the northern regions of Ukraine, the amount of heat is not enough to aging fruits, so we first grow watermelon seedlings.

In regions with a moderately cold and harsh climate (Leningrad region, Moscow region, Siberia, Far East), watermelon harvest will always be moderate. To get it, it is necessary to strictly follow some rules:

• for landings, only early grades are chosen;
• to ensure acceptable temperatures, watermelons are grown in greenhouses, and in the conditions of the middle strip - also in the open ground under the film (in Plenyl);
• landing is produced through seedlings in pots;
• so that the roots grow up in width, watering the plants are not under the root, but in the grooves, dug in the middle of the aisle;
• on one plant, no more than 5-6 fruits leave, for obtaining large berries - 1-2 fetus, under each put a plate, so that in the cool conditions they did not start.

For cultivation in the northern regions, only the rapid varieties of watermelons are chosen:

• for the Moscow region:
  • Sugar kid (Sugar Baby),
  • Climson Sweet,
  • Scorch
  • Flame
  • Producer,
  • Astrakhan,
  • Top Gan
  • Chill;
• for the Leningrad region:
  • Kharkov
  • Flame
  • Rose southeast,
  • Rapid;
• for the Urals - the same varieties as for the Moscow region, as well as:
  • Pink champagne F1,
  • Gift north F1,
  • Krimstar;
• for Siberia and the Far East:
  • Climson Vorder,
  • Climson Sweet,
  • Ultrahed
  • Flame
  • Siberian.

The average ripening period of fruits for the middle strip is about 70-80 days, fruits are small - from 2 kg to 4-6 kg.

Supporting work and knowledge of planting and care for watermelons will definitely reward you with delicious and useful berries. You can even grow watermelon in the northern regions, you only need to choose the right grade and not be lazy to make a shelter.

The best watermelons bring from the southern regions, but to get a good harvest of this huge striped berry can also be in the context of the Moscow region; Plant watermelons even in the Leningrad region. It turns out that it is easy to do it, we just need to know the basics of mud and attach a little labor. The main operations are familiar to every gardener, and the obstacle can only be too cold summer.

Plant Description

Watermelon refers to the pumpkin family is an annual plant. Most varieties have a long racking stem stretching up to two meters. Leaves of dark green color, large, with strong dissection. The fetus for biological classification is a berry, very large, usually spherical shape. In some varieties, it is not a ball, but an elongated shape of a torpedo shape. The mass of the fetus is significant: it can be from 500 g to 20 kg. The watermelon bark has various shades of green color; Most often it is covered with dark or light stripes, but maybe one-photon. The pulp of juicy, in most cases, red or dark pink, but there are varieties with an orange or yellow core. Seeds are usually a lot, they are large, 1-2 cm long, flat, solid, black or brown.

How watermelon is growing

The main part of the harvest of watermelons is obtained in a subtropical belt, much less - in a moderate climate. In Russia, watermelons grown mainly in the Lower Volga region and in the North Caucasus, but lovers of lovers promote culture much north. Watermelon comes from the African continent. This culture persistently tolerates heat and drought, she needs warm and bright sunlight. However, watermelon normally transfers short-lived cooling, it is undemanding to the composition of the soil. Roots are able to suck water from considerable depths, so watermelon is able to grow in conditions of moisture deficiency. At the same time, it speaks well to artificial irrigation, in combination with a landing on light sandy soils gives the fruit of very high quality.

Watermelon must be in the sun, and water adult plants produce themselves

Application

Watermelon is useful for people of any age. Its juice is dominated by simple easily friendly sugars - glucose and fructose, and in the content of the latter, it is one of the champions among cultivated plants. Watermelon contains various organic acids, including folic, having tremendous importance for the human body. Watermelon contributes to the regulation of fat exchange, which determines its use in medicine and nutrition, contains salts of iron and other trace elements. There is even the concept of watermelon diet.

Watermelon is mostly in a fresh form, being an excellent summer dessert. It can be eaten almost unlimited quantity, although doctors and warn from excesses in the presence of some diseases. At the same time, during the mass collection of harvest, watermelons are allowed to various billets. Of these, you can cook juice, and with slow evaporation of the latter to get a honey maternity. Also known are very tasty watermelon candies. There are many lovers of salty and canned watermelons: small fruits consume such blanks, including not quite matured.

Sort

All known Watermelon varieties are conditionally divided into early, middle-air and late. If we talk about our country, then late varieties (for example, spring, Icar, chill) makes sense to plant only in the most southern regions; In Central Russia, they manage to completely ripen only early varieties, such as Victoria, Skirik, Ogodek. The varieties of the middle time of ripening (lessel, Ataman, etc.) occupy an intermediate position. Among the "classic" varieties of watermelon are the most popular are the following.

• Ogonek - an extremely popular early early variety since the time of the USSR. The fruits are small (about 2 kg), seeds in them are very small, and the flesh of an excellent tender taste. The bark is thin, its painting is black and green with a blurred pattern. The variety is able to completely ripen in the Central Black East, East Siberian and Far Eastern regions.
• The chill is one of the most famous varieties of late watermelons. Fruits are stored for more than 3 months, the variety is very crop, has a wonderful taste. The chill appeared in the early 1990s., Designed to be planted in North Caucasian and Nizhnevolzhsky regions. The bush is very powerful, with long (up to 5 meters) weaves, medium resistant to diseases. The fruit is somewhat elongated, weighing about 4 kg, dark green with almost black stripes. Watermelon can not be called fine-core, but it is well transported and stored. The pulp of the watermelon is bright red, very sweet, gentle.
• Baby Shuga - a variety included in the State Register not so long ago, is intended for the Central Black Earth region, but can be grown and north, since it easily endures the cold, including in the spring period. Grade of ultra-war ripening time. The bush and medium-sized leaves, the fruit is round and rather small: the main part of the copies reaches a mass of 1 kg, and only some grow up to 4 kg. The fruit is fine-blooded, striped, outside the usual dark green color. The flesh of dark red color, with very small seeds. Taste qualities are characterized as excellent. Since "Shuga Bayby" is translated as "sugar kid", you can find a description of the variety under both names that can make some confusion. Thus, describing the "sugar kid", indicate that it is recommended for harsh weather conditions, including cultivation in Siberia, since it is extremely resistant to low temperatures. However, the variety under such a (Russian) name in the state stake is absent, but at the same time, the bulk of the description is responsible both to the Russian and the English-language names. A variety of universal destination: good not only in the fresh form, but also in the salting. Easily tolerate transportation.
• Climson Sweet is one of the fashionable varieties grown in most European countries, French origin. Watermelon ultravenous maturation, but in its segment is one of the largest. Character fruits weigh an average of 10 kg, and can grow and more larger. Coloring is classic watermelon, striped (brighter stripes on a dark green background), fleshy dark red, without residence, very sweet and tasty, crispy. Fruits are transportable, well stored, and the plants themselves and disease resistance themselves.

Photo Gallery: Popular Watermelon Varieties

Ogonomok - Honored early grade, growing in almost all regions, chill goes to the counter in September and can make a sugar kid supremes for several months, so it is planted in almost all regions, Climson Sweet is one of the largest among early varieties.

In addition to those given in this list, in recent years, various exotic varieties enjoy certain popularity, not fit into our usual image of a striped berry with red inside, filled with numerous seeds. So, for example, there is a very expensive and scarce black watermelon. Danzuqua grade is grown in Japan. Outside it is absolutely black, glossy, without stripes, weighs 5-7 kg, and inside it contains the usual brightly red flesh. True, the gourmet tried to describe his taste is not just as sweet, but as a magnificent. At the same time, in Russia there are both domestic, quite inexpensive, varieties, externally resembling Danzuke. Such, for example, a black prince or black superb. Perhaps they are not so tasty, but they are not so expensive on the market.

Black watermelon Danzuk stands very expensive, but is legitimate - to decide gourmet

In recent years, watermelons with yellow pulp. These are hybrid plants; Externally, they do not differ from traditional watermelons, but inside - yellow color. There are almost no seeds in them (and sometimes not at all) is very different from the usual and taste. Mango, lemon, pineapple and other southern fruits may be present in the pulp. So, for example, about 10 years ago, the Watermelon Moon is included in the Russian State Member. Like all other yellow watermelons, it is distinguished by early ripening. A medium-sized bush, elliptical fruit-shaped fruit: its mass from 2 to 3 kg. Outside the striped, but the flesh of the light yellow color, gentle, excellent taste. Capacked to short storage (about a month).

Lunny Outside - an ordinary watermelon, but it looks very unusual inside

Already in the middle of the last century, the varieties of watermelons were bred with a complete absence of bones. As a rule, such watermelons are sweeter, the form in most varieties are oblong, and the mass is relatively small (about 4 kg).

A reasonable question: how to plant Beatchain Watermelons? To do this, they receive seeds with special crossing with other varieties, but such a procedure leads to the fact that it is somewhat more complicated to grow an adhesive watermelon than the usual.

Beatchable hybrids are, for example, Impar F1, Regus F1, Boston F1. So, watermelon Boston F1 is included in the Russian State Register and is recommended for cultivation in the North Caucasus region. Refers to early hybrids, forms a long-carrying bush. Fruit ball-shaped, light green, with narrow minor stripes. The usual mass is up to 4 kg, individual representatives grow up to 10 kg, subtle. The flesh is tasty, pink-red color. The fruits are well transported, but no more than two weeks are stored after harvest.

Reviews of some varieties

Last year, I decided to try watermelon in Kaliningrad to grow in Kaliningrad! Chose the early grade "Okonok" of the company "Siberian Gardener". The germination was 100%. He left only 2 pcs., Most active. Monthly sprouts landed in a greenhouse. They were well fitted with tomatoes in the neighborhood))) not plenty, did not even have to remove unnecessary))) Soon 2 watermelons appeared on each plant. He went and further crawl and blossom, but I pinned all this, did not have time to grow. By the end of August 3 watermelons ripened. The fourth did not have time to mature. Small in size, but sweaturated. The flesh is orange-ala. Juicy. Little bones! In general, I'm in full delight !!!

"Julia773"

https://otzovik.com/review_5744757.html

I have not made friends with chilly in two seasons. I waved my hand on him, although if it turned out, you can save it to the new year. Even if there is no good cellar cellar, then on a glazed loggia, it lies to small frosts. And the taste of the chill is some - all watermelons watermelon.

"German"

http://dacha.wcb.ru/index.php?showtopic\u003d47904&st\u003d1280

And I like Baby Shuga or sugar kid, watermelons are not very large, but very sweet and tasty.

Ninyrey

http://forum.prihoz.ru/viewtopic.php?t\u003d1991&start\u003d945

Climson Sweet - early ripening grade, for Siberia - the most that !!!, consistently giving any albeit such large watermelons (at the moment the largest 4 kg), but in the past years, it seems to me that up to 6-7 kg - I did not weigh, as I used the scales only last fall for the daily weighing of my "champion." I think the weight of watermelons could be increased by a small rationalization.

Ukolova

http://vinforum.ru/index.php?topic\u003d349.0.

Watermelon growing ever

In the south and in most areas of the Lower Volga region, watermelons can be grown by direct sowing seeds into open ground, but there is no warm preparation of seedlings for this culture of the regions. Sometimes seedlings have to grow in the south, if there is a desire to get the fruits of the latest varieties.

Planting seeds

If the seeds are purchased in a specialized store and the manufacturer does not cause doubts, preliminary training seeds is not required. But if the seeds are taken from watermelon, bought on food, you need to be careful. First, it may be a hybrid, and then nothing good will work. Secondly, the seeds can carry hidden signs of diseases, so they need to be defraged at least. To check the seeds for germination is not necessary: \u200b\u200bthe watermelon is suitable for at least 6 years, but it is worth choosing the largest.

For disinfection, the seeds are soaked for 20-30 minutes in a dark solution of manganese, and then washed with water. When growing watermelon in the central region and in the north, seeds are desirable to harden (hold about 12 hours in wet fabric in the refrigerator). Such a stage will also help in prevention against most diseases. If you don't do anything, you can simply dock the seeds before planting, but soaking only a two-day advantage in the speed of shooting, you can sow dry.

With watermelon seeds go easy: they are pretty large

Based on the possible time of landing of a 35-day seedlings into an open ground or a greenhouse, it turns out that it is necessary to sow seeds to seeds in the middle or late April (depending on the region). Since watermelons are painfully transferring a transplant, it is better to immediately sow seeds into separate cups with a capacity of at least 250 ml and a depth of about 10 cm (it is best to use peat pots). As a last resort, pre-sowing is possible in the overall box, followed by neatly seeding in the pot. Soil is a mixture of equal parts of the garden land, sand, humus and peat or a mixture purchased in the store.

Before sowing, the soil is slightly moistened and buried the seeds to a depth of about 3 cm, pouring a layer of pure sand in 0.5-1 cm. You can put 2-3 seeds in a pot (then delete seedings), in a total box sow after 3-4 cm.

Care for seedy

Care free easily. Immediately after the seedlings of the "Ogorod", it is necessary to put on a bright sun and reduce the temperature to about 18 ° C, and a few days later it is returned to the values \u200b\u200bof 22 ° C in the afternoon and 18 ° C at night. In the future, it is necessary to monitor the state of the soil and lighting: the day should last at least 12 hours, so it may have to highlight a little. It is necessary to water the root, but slightly: the soil should be slightly wet.

5-7 days after the crossing of the shoots, they need to be switched: if sowing was in a pot, leave one by one if in the box - to remove clearly unnecessary. The next day, after thinning, you can give feeding: a weak solution of complex mineral fertilizer (according to the instructions) or an infusion of ash.

Watermelon seedlings for a month time to grow a rather big bush

A week before the landing in the ground, the seedlings of the watermelon are involved in fresh air, periodically takes it to the balcony. By the time the landing in the garden, it should be strong bushes with 4-5 real leaves.

Is it possible to peer seedlings of watermelon

In a classic understanding, the watermelon picking is unacceptable: the slightest damage to the central root leads to the fact that further work will be meaningless: even if there is no seedlings and does not die, there is no normal crop. But if sowing was made in a common box, when the first real leaf appears, watermelons can be searched on the pots, removing each seedman with a good room of the earth and not disturbing the root system. This can be done only if there is a great experience of gloomy and with extreme need: so that seedlings do not even feel that they made some manipulations with it.

Watermelon Care In Open Ground

Watermelon is a heat and light-affiliated plant, so it is planted when it is on the occurrence of real heat and on a solar bed. Despite the fact that the adult bush seems not very large, watermelon requires a lot of space, landing should not be thickened: this culture loves space.

Landing of watermelons in open ground

Watermelon is placed in the place protected from the northern winds; If possible - on a small elevation, so that the water is not formed from which the roots can be installed. The best soils are lightweight loams or spikes with a medium close to neutral. It is better to plant them on the place where garlic, onions, peas or cabbage grew up last year. Do not suck watermelon after graveling vegetables. As for any garden inhabitants, the bed must be prepared from autumn, reapproaching the soil with any fertilizers, except for fresh manure. Shortly before the seedling of seedlings, the soil should be exploded by adding ash lithra can per square meter. He loves watermelon and magnesium, so it is desirable to make magnesium-containing fertilizers in a small dose (about 5 g per 1 m 2).

Watermelons are planted when daytime temperatures reach the order of 15-20 o C, and the nights are not lower than 8 o C. The distance between the plants on the large field is kept from 1.5 to 3 meters, but in the country, of course, there are so much space. However, the wells can no longer be closer from each other than in half a meter, and it is better to use a scheme of 100 x 70 cm.

Watermelon seedlings relocate in the garden in the usual way:

1. In the selected places make the Lunka Soviece somewhat larger than the pot with seedle.
2. In the dug holes are made by half a cup of ash, they mix it well with soil and watered slightly.
3. Hairlessly taking out a well-political seedlings (in no case damaging roots), plant it, slightly blurting.
4. Each bush water with warm water under the root, then poured into a bed of clean sand with a layer of about 1 cm, placing it, at least around each plant.

Watering

Watermelon is well tolerating drought and does not require abundant irrigation. It is watered only before the formation of fruits, especially moisture in the period of rapid increases of the sheet apparatus. Before the end of the blooming of the soil should be constantly slightly wet, but not wetlands. It is necessary to water the root, it is better in the evening, water to this time is heated in the sun. After irrigations it is necessary to shallow loosening. It is accompanied by a weeding, but as the bush grows, the watermelon himself suppresses the weeds, and you will soon be forgotten.

During the filling and maturation of watermelon berries, the soil, on the contrary, slightly dry: the watermelon is formed by this time the powerful roots penetrating the meter depth and sufficient moisture from there. Intensive rains that are in the second half of summer, rather, harm the quality of the crop, making fruit less sweet.

Podkord

Watermelons feed moderately; Special caution should be used to use nitrogen fertilizers, it is better not to use them without extreme need: there will be that nitrogen that is contained in the complex fertilizer. The first time the feeding is made in a week and a half after the transplantation of watermelons in the garden, the second time is a month later. It is better to take the infusakes of the cowboy, adding wood ash, and if there are no ammophos or azophosk (according to the instructions for the drug). As soon as the fruits started, feeding should be stopped: watermelon will find a nutrition itself.

Feeders are convenient to carry out special compositions for melting crops

Formation of a bush (pieces of shoots, trimming of unnecessary weaves and grazing meat

In the process of growing a bush, watermelon should be periodically shifted so that they do not intertwine with each other. But this is not the most difficult thing: it is important to correctly form a bush, deleting extra shoots from time to time. When forming the watermelon plant, the main task is that it does not spend its forces on the growth of unnecessary green mass, but sent a maximum nutrient for the formation and ripening of the crop. In addition, it is necessary to remove part of the fruits, since all those that started, the bush will not be able to provide me with nutrition even on the most fertile lands. All operations on trimming should be carried out in a dwelling sunny day, so that the locations of the cut or the segments quickly fucked.

The formation procedure depends on the locality in which watermelons grows. This work is most important in the northern regions, where the summer is short, and on the issue of crop maturation is important every warm day. In addition, the course of the procedure depends on the variety of watermelon: the formation of the bush is most important for large-scale varieties. All crop rationing work should be carried out when the berries grow with a chicken egg. There are several approaches to creating a properly fruiting watermelon plant.

• According to the first option, on the main stem, leave from three to six fruits (depending on their intended size), and with lateral shoots, all the wounds are removed. At the same time, the lateral shoots do not give to grow and pinch them over the fourth sheet. The meaning of the remaining short escapes is to provide the main stem. But as the fruit growing, the side shoots gradually remove, starting with the closest to the roots.
• In the opposite version, on the contrary, the fruits are growing on lateral shoots, leaving one berry on each (for powerful bushes - a maximum of two), and only 4 to 6 copies on the bush. Three leaf leaves over the fruits, the rest of the side shoots are pouring. The fruits formed on the main stem are removed.
• The most hard version is not to leave lateral shoots at all. On the main stem, they leave up to five fruits, but so that there are 4-5 leaves between them. It is believed that food from these leaves should be enough to form fruits, especially if the grade does not imply the possibility of obtaining very large berries.

How to figure out what option to choose? It seems the usual dacket makes no sense to think about it, but you just need to remember several rules:

• do not leave more than six fruits on the bush;
• on every escape to leave only one beroda in the case of large-scale varieties and the maximum of two in the case of finely);
• after the growing watermelon, it is up to the magnitude of the fist over it a maximum of 4-5 leaves.

Even when the formation of a bush appears to be finished and the active growth of fruits and the increase in their mass will begin, steaskers will periodically appear from the sinuses of the leaves - additional side shoots. It is worth it for a rule for a rule, weekly inspect the vacuum and break down the steps, without giving them to increase in size. True, at this time it is already undesirable to turn the scourge, so it should be very neat. As the fruits are growing under them, plywood or skimming should be put on the rainy summer so that they do not hesitate in the rainy summer, lying on crude ground.

All available patterns of formation of watermelon plants provide for the sepure of most stems and remaining on a bush of only a few fruits.

How to grow a square watermelon ("Japanese" technology)

Square (more precisely, cubic) watermelon is only because when storing or transporting a crop, it will take less space. Other advantages This "miracle" does not have, and especially try to grow it is not much sense. But lovers of such exotic can get square striped berries from any loved variety. To do this, it is necessary to somehow make cubic containers from transparent plastic of the appropriate size.

What does appropriate mean? The cube edge diagonal should be slightly larger than the diameter of the alleged watermelon, which will grow in this container. In too close, the dwelling watermelon does not quite mature, and in too spacious will not be quite "square": only 6 of the surplus sides will turn out. To be a reusable cube, it, of course, should be collapsible, and in one of the faces you need to do a hole with a diameter of 3-4 cm for escape with a fruit. In addition, numerous smaller holes need for ventilation, otherwise the berry in this Cuba simply rotates.

Almost all his life is a future square watermelon conducts inside a transparent cube

Then everything is very simple. As soon as the watermelon grows up the size of an apple, it is placed in the form and continue the usual care, following how he feels. Perhaps you have to pour a little more, turn the cube, to make the fetus in it while it is small. But as soon as he is growing and starts to rest in the face, it will take the form of Cuba. Obviously, in a similar way, not only cubic watermelons can be grown, and, for example, pyramidal.

Processing against diseases and pests

Watermelon is a heat-loving plant, but otherwise - completely unpretentious. With proper care, it is rarely ill or is subjected to pest attacks. Most often, even no spraying is required in amateur melting; In large farms, of course, prophylactic treatments are carried out. To prevent possible diseases (rot, shot, mildew, anthracnose) are used, for example, such well-known drugs, such as Fundazol or Decis, as well as traditional borodic liquid. Each of them is able to destroy certain pathogens, and, if necessary, should be carefully examined by the instructions.

The pests have a little watermelon. The most common is a mesh fault, a wire, a variety of ticks. To scare the majority of them, there is enough spraying of watermelons by means based on garden plants or simplest economic preparations. Thus, infusions of tobacco dust or wood ash (with small additives of the household soap) are well helped against the threshold. The wire and leaf-ridden caterpillars are collecting, attracting it into sweet bait, placed in small wells: sweetened infusions of garlic, mustard, wormwood, burning pepper, tomato tops.

Harvesting and storage

When the harvest approach, a question arises to the stage of ripening: and when to cut watermelons? After all, the fact is that completely ripe berries are very poorly stored, and if you want to eat a delicious watermelon directly from the bed, you must wait until it becomes so delicious as the variety allows. They are poorly stored and those watermelons that have not yet reached the so-called first stage of maturity.

Of course, until you can cut watermelon, you will not know exactly what it is inside: it happens, even the most experienced meshwood is mistaken. On the context, everything is simple: if the color of the pulp and seeds corresponds to the varietal features, watermelon is ready. A little unplanned copy (flesh is brighter than normal) could reach full ripeness and gain sugar during storage. But you will not cut the berries on the garden!

Signs of ripeness several:

• when ripening the watermelon, the matte surface of the peel turns into a brilliant;
• the crust should be hard and not to hide from the light pressure of the nail;
• in a fully matured watermelon, the fruits becomes dry;
• a good sign is a yellow spot on the place where the watermelon comes into contact with the earth or a litter;
• if you knock on the watermelon, then ripening instances make a ring sound. The muffled tones - in fully matured and, on the contrary, green (well, it is not so difficult to distinguish between them).

The most effigy - late Wheelpus, but also need to be removed correctly. The berry is cut off by a secateur or a sharp knife together with a fruit length of about 5 cm. When transporting to the storage of watermelons must lie on the soft litter, and in the storage itself - also on the litter, better than straw, and only one layer. In the process of storage, they must be periodically examined, sewing beginners to deteriate instances. The best temperature in the repository is from 6 to 8 ° C, air humidity is not higher than 85%. But even the most ice varieties are rarely preserved over three months.

Growing watermelon at home (in bucket)

If there is a sunny window sill or a balcony, you can grow watermelon. True, it requires a lot of free space, and to get a weighing more than 1 kg, almost impossible. The whole process is made up of the same stages as usual, only from small seaside pots of plants with a lump of land roll up into a large pot, the volume of at least a bucket, and better - from 15 liters. Of course, you can immediately sow seeds in the bucket (without forgetting to do drainage holes in the bottom).

On one plant at home, it is possible to leave no more than two fruits, but after they successfully get tight. And they will be tuned only under the condition of artificial pollination.

The owner should know what the female flowers differ from men's, and pollen from a male flower (on a thin fruit) It is necessary to pollimate the female independently (with thick fruit).

Otherwise, it is necessary to monitor the temperature, soil moisture and give watermelions more light.

Greenhouse Watermelons, Using Mestes

In a cold climatic belt, watermelons can be grown only in the greenhouse. There are pre-prepared beds in advance, bringing in them humid and mineral fertilizers. Watermelon seedlings plant when night temperatures in the greenhouse will not fall below 6 o, which happens in the center of Russia at the end of April. Although, of course, in the greenhouse you can sow watermelons and seeds, immediately in the garden.

Since the place in the greenhouse has to save, watermelons plant a slightly thick, and the trellis are arranged for the direction. Typically plant plants according to a 50 x 70 cm scheme, and the early grades are put on two plants in the hole at all, directing shoots in different directions. If the windows and doors are kept in the greenhouse almost closed, at the right moment it may not be flying insects, there is no wind there, so it is necessary to carry out artificial pollination.

If the watermelon is grown on a chopler, the fruits are not lying on the ground, but are at some height, so as they grow to fall. In this regard, during the growing berries, it is often placed in spacious grids from any material, which are firmly tied to the grid. At the same time, the fruits do not lie on Earth and, therefore, are not subjected to posting. In addition, when in the grid, they are evenly lit on all sides, which leads to earlier maturation.

Mesh, strengthened on a chopler, allow watermelons not to fall and better mature

Growing in barrel, film use

Our dackets are famous experimenters, and in pursuit of saving space invented many unique methods of growing vegetable crops. So, many vegetables, flowers and even strawberries are often grown in old unsuitable barrels of about 200 liters. So you can do with watermelons. At the bottom of the barrels are laid by various trash, which acts as a drainage, and as rot - and fertilizers. From above, pour grass, good humid, and then fertile soil. Since the metal barrel warms well in the sun, this substrate always remains warm.

In the barrel you can immediately sow seeds or plant seedlings (depending on the climate), but in any case, at first, the watermelon must be covered with nonwoven material. Places in the barrel is enough for two plants. Here you do not need a twerder, and the growing screens will hang down where the surface of the earth will appear flowers, and then fruits. Care for watermelons is usual, only may need more abundant watering.

Some dacms instead of non-woven material cover the seedlings with a plastic film. As a temporary measure, this approach can be used, but the long-term foundation of watermelons under the film can lead to reinforcement of the roots. The film can be applied in the usual bed, and in a greenhouse, but only for a while. The only true use of it is to cover the crops in order to create a greenhouse effect for the appearance of rapid shoots. In the future, you can do openings for shoots and hold the film for some time so as not to cool the earth. But long-term content under polyethylene for watermelons is detrimental.

Features of growing watermelons in different regions

The trouble-free cultivation of watermelons is possible only in the south, in the rest of the regions there are their own rules, but they are all directed mainly to the creation of warm conditions for this berry.

Watermelons in the south of Russia

In the southern regions (starting with Volgograd), only amateurs wishing to get very early yields are dealt with. In the industrial production of watermelons sow immediately into open soil, starting from the middle of the spring. They watered them only at first, before the start of flowering, and then Bakhcha, in fact, grows itself.

Already starting from the Central Black Earth Region, options are possible. Growing both through seedlings, and without it, and sowing in the garden is possible in early May. Greenhouses are usually not needed.

Under time, many sowing dacms are covered with a film. Some sow watermelons immediately after planting potatoes, free space. From the second half of June they are not completely watered, falling precipitation is usually enough.

Central Districts of Russia, Ural Region

In the central regions of the country, and even more so in the Urals, it is possible to obtain a crop in the open soil only a seaside way. Seedlings (better - in peat pots) sit in the garden in the late spring, but often the greenhouse cultivation is used, while planting seedlings immediately after the May holidays. Only early varieties are used: a fire, scaryc, Siberian, and in case of unsuccessful summer in the open ground, even they may not mature and used only for salting.

When landing in the greenhouses, many alternate watermelons with cucumbers, although it is unlikely to be considered reasonable: watermelon is a resident of arid regions, and the cucumbers need wet air. But with timely ventilation and competent temperature regulation, both cultures can bring good yields.

Video: Growing watermelons in greenhouse conditions

Northwest Region, Leningrad Region

It was also recently believed that in the north-west countries to grow watermelons in the open soil unrealistic, but in recent years there are more and more reports that enthusiasts are managed to do it even in Karelia and the Murmansk region. True, luck is variable and depends on how summer was issued, and there are no delicious fruits. But in the greenhouses, watermelons in the Leningrad region grown for a long time and quite successfully. But even greenhouse cultivation implies the use of only early grades and requires considerable effort. Among the agronomists it is believed that the sewn border of the cultivation of watermelons even in the greenhouses passes through the line of St. Petersburg - Kirov: in more northern regions, the "Sheepbank is not worth it".

Watermelons in the Far East

The heat in the Far Eastern region is quite enough to grow watermelons in the open ground, there are even zoned varieties, for example, a light, early Kuban, scaryc, although it is possible to sleep and any other varieties, except for very late. Saw seeds right in the bed, of course, risky, therefore practicing a seaside way.

The only difference between Far Eastern technology from the traditional is due to the fact that in the second half of summer there are often prolonged and abundant rains, as a result of which watermelons can be rotated. They copes simply: they are planted on high ridges, from which excess water flows. Size variety - any, convenient for use. In the country areas they make a width of about a meter, raising over the furrows at a height of 20-25 cm.

Ukraine

Ukraine is the second country in Europe, so the climate is very dependent on the area. And if in the north of the country it looks like the Moscow region, then in the south is ideal for cultivation of mudflows. In the south of Ukraine, the concepts of "seedlings" do not know, seed watermelons right in the field or garden at the end of April - early May, and the care is minimal. Seed seeds are also possible in the north (in late spring), and pre-cultivation of seedlings.

The cultivation of watermelons is not always a lottery: in the presence of some experience and good luck, normal fruits can be obtained in the middle lane of Russia. And already on the latitudes of south of Kursk or Saratov, this striped berry is a traditional resident in the Grocery Groceries. It is possible to taste with delicious sweet fruits directly from the bed, putting some efforts, but they are small: the technology of growing melting crops is available to each dacket.

The best watermelons, of course, grows in the southern regions. But in the middle lane of our country, you can collect a good crop. Sometimes watermelons are grown in a greenhouse. But they prefer the sun, so high-quality copies grow in the open soil. If climatic conditions allow, then put them in their plot must be necessary. And grow large berries is quite simple, if you adhere to all rules for landing and care.

Soil selection for watermelon

Watermelon - heat and light-affiliated plant. Grocery for him need to choose the solar. He grows well into hot and even dry weather. Watermelon has powerful roots that penetrate the depth to the meter and get the necessary moisture from there. Not very large plant requires a lot of free space for comfortable growth. Therefore, it is not worth saving on the beds. When choosing a place, it should be borne in mind that plants should be protected from cold winds. At the same time, it is better if it is a small elevation, where excess water will not accumulate: it is destructive effect on the roots, causing fungal diseases.

The watermelon soil composition is very demanding: loves light, sampling or drum, with acidity close to neutral (pH 6.5-7). If clay prevails on the site, the river sand should be added (1 bucket on m 2). Sour soils should be made in advance by adding a dolomite flour or a greased lime. Choosing a place, you need to know which cultures grew here earlier. Best Predecessors: Garlic, Onions, Bean, Cabbage. Watermelon is poorly growing, potatoes and tomatoes. It should not be planted and after repeated cultivation of messengers. They can grow in one place for a maximum of two years in a row. After that, a five-year break should be provided. Watermelon grows well on virgin lands, because they are enough air permeable.

Watermelon will grow everywhere, even challenges weeds, but it is better to provide him with high-quality soil

As for most plants, the garden for watermelon is better cooking from autumn. Although the spring will be possible for this: watermelon is not very early. The site must be swapped to the bayonet shovel and make fertilizers. 1 m 2 requires near the bucket of overwhelmed manure or good compost. Fresh manure it is impossible to use. In the spring, it is necessary to go through the garden to the cultivator, pre-deposit superphosphate and wood ash (respectively 40 g and a liter can on m 2) and explode the Earth by 10-12 cm. You can add magnesium-containing fertilizers (about 5 g per 1 m 2). There should be no large amount of nitrogen: the increased content of nitrates impairs both the taste and preservation of fruits. If I want the soil sooner, immediately after melting snow, you can cover the garden with a polyethylene film.

Preparation of watermelon seeds for landing

Watermelon can be seated through seedlings and direct sowing in open ground. But the preparation of seeds in both cases is the same. Not always seeds buy in stores. Sometimes they are taken from the watermelon favorite, bought on food. The second case is not very reliable. First, as in most cultures, the watermelon has hybrids (F1). And with them to take the seeds without anything: can grow not at all such a watermelon, which was eaten in the summer. Secondly, watermelons are not always sold in retail chains that are grown in the appropriate climate. Therefore, it is better to find out what kind of varieties are zoned, and buy reliable seeds in a specialized store. If we plant a watermelon for the first time and take the seeds from your crop, you need to select the largest and delicious copies for this purpose.

Watermelon seeds retain the germination of 6-8 years.

First, the seeds can simply calibrate manually: they are large, so choose the most solid copies will not be difficult.

Watermelon seeds are known to everyone who at least once ate this berry

Some lovers wipe the spout of each seed with sandpaper, making it easier to exit the root outward. When landing several copies, this is easy. And in mass production, of course, no one does anything.

Disinfection

For disinfection, the seeds of watermelon are soaked at 20-30 minutes in a dark potassium permanganate solution (1 g of mangartage on 200 ml of water). Then washed with clean water. To increase the germination, sowing gobblers soaked seeds in growth stimulants solutions. Actually, treencing in mangartage is really necessary, as it significantly reduces the risk of diseases. And the use of growth stimulants is an optional procedure: good seeds in warm soil and so good.

Hardening

When growing watermelon in the middle lane of Russia, seeds are desirable to pre-order. After disinfection, they are transferred to a wet cloth and sent for 12-15 hours to the refrigerator. Even better before hardening, wait for seeds. To do this, they are kept in a wet cloth until several seeds will open and roots will appear. It is with the roots of the seeds put in the refrigerator. But in this case, the term "links" must be shorter: 5-6 hours will be enough. This hardening is good prophylaxis against many diseases. Before sowing, the seeds are slightly dried.

Soak

In fact, conducting the preparation of seeds to sow, we have already soaked them at least in the potassium permanganate solution. If you abandon disinfection and hardening, then you can not carry out soaking seeds and plant them dry: watermelons will go. But many gardeners want it to happen a couple of days earlier, and not even routing seeds, they still soak them in the water. It is better to do it two days before landing. First, the seeds should be omitted in hot water (50 o C), and after its natural cooling move to the wet cloth and keep in it near the battery, without letting it. It is more convenient to do it in Petri Cup. And in the absence of such a container - in any small vessel, not quite hermetically covered.

To soak any seed cup Petri suitable better than other vessels

The question of the need for soaking relates to the area of \u200b\u200b"Livost". Most of the guides are advised to grind the shift almost all vegetable crops. But if you do everything "written", for the rest of the life, there will be no strength or time to work. Therefore, often we lower the operations that we seem unnecessary. The author of these lines (living in Saratov) never etched the seeds of the watermelon and did not soak them. It is impossible to say that good watermelons always succeed, no year for a year. But, at least, on the appearance of shoots and the growth of the watermelon bush, this does not affect.

Dates of sowing seeds of watermelon

The timing of seeds depends on whether it will be the cultivation of seedlings or direct seed seeds to the garden. Planting seeds in open soil is recommended only for southern regions. An attempt to do so in the non-black earth, and even more so in the Urals or in Siberia, it can lead to the fact that the fruits of even the earliest grades will have to get involved, but will not cause. The duration of planting seeds of watermelon to seedlings - 30-35 days before landing in an open soil or greenhouse. In most regions, sowing falls in the middle or end of April. Many varieties have time to crumble and when sowing seeds in the first half of May. In the watermelon seeds a dense shell, so for the appearance of plants from unprepared seeds, it may be necessary to ten days.

The seedlings in open soil is possible only when daytime temperatures are consistently installed at the level of 15-20 o C, and at night it will not be below 8 o C. In the middle lane, night frosts ends approximately June 1. Of course, in earlier deadlines, there are also gaps of warm weather, durability even up to two weeks, but usually they are replaced by cold. Therefore, it is not worth a hurry with the planting seedlings. In the North, the deadlines are shifted for another two weeks towards the summer. If it is sharply cold, and seedlings are already planted, it must be covered with nonwoven materials, and add more solid shelters for the night.

Seeding seeds for the garden is possible a week earlier. As a rule, the soil in mid-May, even in the middle lane, has already been warmed up, the seeds will not die. In the meantime, they will go, the threat of frosts will pass. In the southern regions, few people are engaged in preparing seedlings of watermelons: in April, the seeds are sown immediately to a permanent place.

Landing watermelons on the lunar calendar

In recent years, many gardeners have checked their affairs on the lunar calendar. Of course, if there is free time for this. A working person who falls on the country site only on weekends, once to look into the calendars. They can also read that it is impossible to sow on weekends, and so you can stay at all without harvests.

It is believed that the sowing is not carried out in the full moon. At this time, you can only prepare a garden or landing containers. In the "fruitless" signs of the Moon (Aquarius, Aries), too, better to refrain from landing. Bach cultures are more influenced by the moon than other vegetables. Watermelon is better to sow in those days of the lunar calendar when the "tops" grow well. Ideally, crops are performed immediately after the full moon. If we sow watermelons on a growing moon, they grow small.

Favorable days for planting watermelons

Considering the lunar calendars, it is necessary to be a big averaging master. The more sources you study, the incomprehensible the logic of their compilers becomes. So, after reviewing about two dozen options, you can make sure that the total set of data allows sowing almost any day. However, most often among favorable dates of sowing watermens in 2018 are as follows:

• from March 19 to March 24;
• from 5 to 9 and from April 20 to April 24;
• from 4 to 9 and from 19 to 23 May.

Surprisingly, the compilers of most calendars do not take into account the climatic features of the regions at all.

Rules landing Arbuzov

The thermal-loving watermelon is cultivated more often in the southern regions of our country. But when growing, his early grades give normal crops and in the middle strip. In the central regions, watermelons are often grown in greenhouses. The minimum temperature for germination of watermelon seeds is 16 o C. At 0 ° C of plants die. The most favorable temperature is 20-30 o C.

Based on the climate of the region, it is possible to plant watermelon to open ground or only to a greenhouse. But there, and there it is possible to grow it both through the stage of seedlings, and simply sowing seeds to the garden. Therefore, the choice of a watermelon planting is quite wide. Landing diagrams are different, that is, methods of placing plants in the space provided.

At what distance to plant watermelons

Different sources provide various planting schemes of watermelon. But all the authors converge in one: the places of the watermelon need a lot, and the thickened landings are not allowed. Based on the geometry of the site and the host preferences, it is possible both lowercase (ordinary) and square-nest fit. With an ordinary landing between the rows of watermelons, leave 1.5 to 3 meters, and between plants in a row - about 1 meter. With a square-nesting landing, it is recommended to leave distances between the wells from 0.7 to 2 meters, depending on the grade of watermelon, from the power of the plant.

Between the watermelon bushes always leave solid distances

Of course, these distances relate, rather, to the mass production of watermelons, to sow them on the large field. The usual dacket will plant no more than a dozen plants in a small bed, but the distance between them still cannot be less than half a meter.

In the closed soil (in a greenhouse), such a luxury can usually be afforded, and the distances have to do somewhat smaller. Most often, 50 x 70 cm diagrams are used. In the case of early varieties in the hole, two plants plant them, directing their screens as they grow in opposite sides.

Sowing seeds to seedlings at home

When sowing seeds of watermelon to seedlings, it is necessary to expect that its landing in an open soil or a greenhouse will take place in about a month. The best soil mixture for seedlings consists of equal parts of the turf, sand, peat and humus. You can add wood sawdust. It is allowed to sow in the overall box, but the transplant of watermelons from the total capacity in the ground will be very painful for seedlings. It is better for each plant to take a separate dishes with a volume of 200 ml, a depth of at least 10-12 cm. Optimal peat pots.

Sowing is spent on a depth of about 3 cm, 2-3 seeds in the pot, plump a little pure sand from above. Before sowing, the soil is slightly moistened. And after sowing, the pot is covered with glass or polyethylene film, creating a greenhouse effect before the first searches appear. Optimum temperature in the cultivation of seedlings 22 ° C Day and 18 ° C at night. But immediately after the appearance of germs, it is reduced by 3-5 degrees for several days. Watering is needed moderate, under the root. Sometimes you have to highlight the seedlings, especially if she tries to stretch. Light day should be about 12 hours.

Already at the stage of seedlings, each watermelon plant requires a rather big dwelling.

A week after the appearance of germs in the pot leave one plant. At this time, seedlings can be seeded a little by complex fertilizer or infusion of a cow. A week before the landing in the ground, the seedlings temper. By the time of landing on the bed, it should have 4-5 real leaves.

Video: Seeding watermelon seeds

Landing seedlings in open ground

Of course, to grow watermelon in the middle lane, greenhouse conditions are better. But in more southern regions, they are well affected in the open ground. The grown seedlings are planted on the bed as follows:

1. In the places scheduled, according to the selected scheme, the places are digging the hole by a slightly more than the size of the pots with a seedler.
2. A glass of wood ash was poured as a local fertilizer to each well as a local fertilizer, stirred from the ground and watered a little.
3. Accurately removing pre-well political seedlings from the pots, tolerate it into the holes and plunder slightly. All leaflets must remain on the surface.
4. Gently watered every plant for the root.
5. After that, pour into a centimeter layer around the stem pure sand.

Video: Rechazzle seedlings in open ground

Direct Sowing Seeds for Grocery

Direct sowing seeds is still easier. You can sow both dry landing material and pre-prepared. Landing is possible when the temperature is reached at least 14 ° C. Therefore, in the middle lane, it is carried out no earlier than the last numbers of May. Just like when the seedlings landed, the wells dig up, they bring local fertilizers (to the ash, you can add a teaspoon of azophoski), stirred, water and sow seeds to a depth of about 3 cm. In each well you can put 2-3 seeds, then delete extra seedrages.

Planting watermelons to greenhouse

In regions with a cold climate, watermelons have to be grown in a greenhouse. In advance, it is necessary to prepare the beds, carefully rehabilitated the land with humus and mineral fertilizers. Sometimes it is necessary to completely replace the soil, if last year there were diseases of those or other plants in the greenhouse.

It is possible to plant seedlings to the greenhouse only when the daily air temperature will reach 20-25 o C, and at night it will not fall below 6 about C. Usually in the middle lane it is observed by the end of April. Planting seedlings are produced in the same way as in the open ground. Only the distances between the wells leave somewhat smaller. In connection with this circumstance in the greenhouse, the trellis usually plays, raising the growing watermelon screens over the earth. Trelliers make sense to do immediately until the plants have grown.

When growing watermelons in the greenhouse, it is necessary to use not only the area of \u200b\u200bthe room, but also the whole volume

In heated greenhouses, it is possible to grow watermelon seedlings. Dates in this case are only determined by the possibility of tracking the temperature regime and are not limited to the calendar. However, it is necessary to understand well that truly delicious watermelons grow only in the open air, on natural sunlight, heated with sunbeams.

Watermelon Care

Watermelon - drought-resistant culture, it does not require abundant irrigation. It is necessary to water only before the tie of fruits, especially during the period of intense growth of the leaves. During the ripening of fruits to increase the sugarness of the soil, on the contrary, slightly dried. Watermelon is very light, especially in the first months of development. Basic affairs on Bakhche are reduced to the following events:

• moderate watering. The soil until the lattice of the fruit must be constantly wet, but not wetlands. Watering is better to spend in the evening, watered under the root. After moisturizing the soil, loosening is required;
• weeding. This watermelon does not differ from most country inhabitants. As he grows, he himself begins to suppress the development of most annual weeds;
• the location of the ridges on the garden. They must be periodically shifted so that they do not intertwine with each other;
• feeding. The first is 7-10 days after disembarking seedlings to bed. The second is another month. It is better to use influence organic fertilizers with the addition of ash, if not - azophoska strictly according to the instructions on the package. Feeding should be stopped after the start of the formation of fruits;
• artificial pollination. It may be needed when growing watermelons in a greenhouse. If insects do not fly to it, it is necessary to pollinate the flowers manually using a conventional tassel;
• plant formation. There are no more than 5 fruits on the bush. Unnecessary side stems should be quenched.
• protection against rotting. As watermelons grow under these berries it is necessary to put the plywood to prevent possible rotting in the event of rainy weather.

Preventive spraying

Watermelon is an unpretentious plant. With proper agricultural engineering, rarely subjected to diseases or invasion of pests. To prevent possible diseases, various drugs are used, such as Fundazole, Decis, Bordeaux Liquid. Each of them is intended for the treatment of specific diseases, so you need to read the instructions before applying.

Pests have a little watermelon. To combat the soil plants spray with infested ash or tobacco dust, after which the soil is loose. Wire and various caterpillars are assembled using sweet bait placed in small pits. To scare up most insects, there is enough spraying of watermelons by folk remedies. It can be tinkers of garlic, mustard, wormwood, burning pepper, tobacco dust, tomato tops. Processing is carried out once a week.

Popular varieties of Arbuzov

All known watermelon varieties are divided into early, secondary and late. Obviously, the late grades have time to ripen only in the most southern regions of our country. In the middle lane, it is preferable to unwind early varieties, for example:

• Victoria - the variety matures in two months, gives large round fruits;
• Skirik - distinguished by a very tasty pulp, but thick. The fruits are small, barely reach up to 4 kg;
• Ogonomok - led back during the Soviet Union. The fruits are small, the seeds in them are small, but the flesh of an excellent taste.

Among the secondary varieties are distinguished by legeble (maturation time up to 3 months) with fruits weighing up to 5 kg and ataman, fruiting with large berries, up to 10 kg. Both varieties are characterized by excellent taste.

Among late varieties are known:

• Spring - gives very small fruits with a dark red flesh. The variety matures in 3.5 months;
• Icar - characterized by large fruits, is able to be kept for a long time;
• The chill is the most famous of the late Wheelpowders. Fruits are stored for more than 3 months. The variety is very harvest, berries have a beautiful taste.

Photo Gallery: Watermelon Varieties

Victoria - one of the most imperative watermelons
Scorch not only raking, but also stored well
The fire is not similar to the classic definition of the "striped berry" at the Ataman very large fruits
Liegeempock variety is very often called "honey", and it is no coincidence that no striped Icar can be kept very long, perhaps the most famous of watermelon varieties

Features of the planting of watermelon in different regions

The main difference in the climatic conditions between the regions, from the point of view of the cultivation of watermelons, consists in the number of warm summer days. This is exactly what an imprint is not only on the conditions for the care of plants, but also on the way to plant them in bed. The cultivation of watermelons is extremely difficult only in the regions with a harsh climate, for example, in Siberia.

In the middle lane of Russia

In the climatic conditions of the middle strip, watermelons in the open ground should be seedlings. It is most convenient for it to use peat pots. You can land them in the garden in the late spring. But it is quite often practiced and greenhouse growing, where the seedlings are planted in early May. To grow here a watermelon with a reckless way, not using greenhouses, it is almost unreal: this is obtained only in separate, most favorable seasons.

Recommended varieties: Ogonok, scorch, Siberian. On each vacuum in the formation of plants, you should not leave more than two fruits. If summer is issued rainy, even two watermelons on the plenty may not have time to be risked.And they will not taste sweet - such watermelons are often used for salting.

In outskirts of Moscow

Of course, the Moscow region also refers to the middle lane, and this is a zone in which watermelons grow risky. Get the normal harvest of watermelons in the suburbs can only be seedlings. Seeds in seedlings should be soiled not earlier than mid-April. It is often suitable for watermelons "smart bed": a plot, well-seasoned with organic fertilizers, is covered with black film, and the seedlings of watermelons are planted into the holes cut into it. And even on such a bed, the first time is covered with nonwoven materials. As soon as the flowers begin to appear, it is stopped to strengthen: by this time this warmth is already coming. Of course, watermelons do not grow as big as in the south. They achieve only 2-3 kg, but the taste in sunny seasons is very good.

Smart are called beds, covered with dark film, under which the soil is saturated with organic fertilizers

In Belarus

The Belarusian climate reminds Moscow, but it is softer: in winter there is no sharp alternation of frosts and thaws, and spring comes a little earlier. Nevertheless, watermelon, as in the Moscow region, is grown here more often through seedlings, which is planted for a permanent place in the early summer. The cultivation of watermelons in Belarus is most reliable when using observer materials. Without shelters, approximately once every 5 years, watermelons do not grow: the weather whiskers affect. Of course, the most suitable for the Bakhchy cultures of the southern regions of Belarus. But lovers manage to grow ripe watermelons even in the northern part of the Vitebsk region.

In the southern regions, for example, in Gomel, practiced direct seed prepared seeds into open ground, first under the film. Do it when the earth warms up to 12-14 o C, that is, in the middle or late May. When shooting shoots, the film is removed. In climatic conditions, Belarus is preferable to grow early grades and hybrids.

In chernozem

The climate of the Central Black Earth Region of Russia is transitional between the climate of the middle strip and southern edges. Therefore, there is equally practiced evenly and reckless ways of growing watermelons. Needs in greenhouses, as a rule, does not arise here. Seying watermelons directly on the garden in the southern strip can be in the middle of spring, and in the chernozem, in the first days of May. Just in case, at first time, sowing is better to cover with a film to progress in case of short-term frosts.

Usually watermelons (and melon) are sown after planting potatoes, often on the remaining place. In most cases, this summer is quite hot for watermelons to grow large and sweet. To do this, from mid-June, watering is completely stopped: watermelons are enough of what falls in the form of rains.

In the Urals

Summer in the Urals is short and cold, so watermelons often do not have time to mature. Here you definitely use a seed basis. And often and seedlings are not planted in a bed, but to a greenhouse. Without the use of greenhouses, you can grow only the most early grades: the duration of a really warm season does not exceed 70 days. Good proven themselves in the Urals of Ogonok, scorch, sugar kid. Risk gardens sow watermelon seeds at the beginning of summer in open ground, but most prefers to grow watermelons across seedlings. Sowing seeds to seedlings are held in mid-April, and at the beginning of the summer it is planted in beds for temporary shelters.

When growing watermelons in the greenhouses, they often plant them together with cucumbers, although it is not the perfect option: the watermelon is needed dry air, and the cucumbers love the wet atmosphere. But for both crops, periodic ventilation of the greenhouse and clear tracking of the temperature regime is obligatory.

Video: Landing of watermelons in the Urals

Watermelon gradually ceases to be considered southern berry: His cultivation is slowly moving to the north. This is facilitated by both the successes of breeders and the irrepressive enthusiasm of our summer residents. Landing the watermelon is nothing more difficult to plant any vegetable crops. Therefore, many gardeners try to plant watermelons on their sites. And if it turned out once, continue to do it in the following years.

Grow watermelons in the open soil does not represent a special difficulty. It is only necessary to follow certain steps and be prepared for overcoming difficulties that may appear on the path of gardeners. In this case, the cultivation of watermelons in the open soil will not represent great difficulties.

Selection of watermelus varieties

By setting the question "How to grow watermelon?", It should be started with the selection of the seed fund. It is recommended to choose seeds that relate to hybrid varieties. This is due to the fact that they are resistant to a few, calmly worry the change in weather conditions. Yes, and fruits ripen in a shorter period.

Such seeds allow watermelons of the necessary dimensions and certain sucrapers even if the summer will not pour warm days.

Preparation of seeds to sowing

Direct preparation for the landing of watermelons and care in the open ground occurs at the time of seed selection. In order for the seeds to quietly and in the future, the seedlings remained strong and resistant to disease, it is necessary to conduct a certain set of measures before sowing. It is required to calibrate seeds, warmly warm them and make disinfection.

Calibration is the selection of sowing material by their dimensions. It is done with the purpose of coincidence of seeds in size when landing into one container. Otherwise, larger seeds will simply define small and they will not be able to fully climb.

Warming is a mandatory procedure that allows you to speed up the process of germination of seeds. This is due to the fact that at high temperatures in seeds, biochemical reactions increase. To carry out this operation, it is necessary to lower the seeds in warm water, the temperature of which reaches 50 degrees Celsius, and to withstand them for half an hour.

Disinfection is also not difficult. It is only necessary to withstand seeds in the manganese solution for a third of the hour.

After the end of all procedures for the preparation of seeds, they need to dry them in vivo, and then sow into the soil.

Choose a container and soil

Due to the fact that the seedlings of watermelons do not carry the transplant process very well, each seedman needs to grow immediately in a separate container. In order for sighs to grow in the most comfortable conditions for itself, it is required to choose a capacity of at least 100 millimeters in diameter and 120 millimeters in height.

This container must be filled with soil in such a way that the pot is 30 millimeters to the upper limit. In the future, it will be possible to plug the earth.

Singing seeds of watermelon

At the end of May, it is necessary to plant seedlings of this species in open ground. If you know how watermelon grows, it should be remembered that it is necessary to plant watermelons into open soil with 4 leaves.

Seying seeds are needed at the end of the second spring month. Capacity from seeds is best stored on the windowsill, which is focused on the south side

30 degrees Celsius is the ideal temperature regime for bachchy crop seeds. Then they will go up on the 6th day. In the future, the temperature is recommended to lower up to 18 degrees.

After the seedlings are adapted, you can increase the temperature of up to 22 degrees. Such temperature regime must be saved for three weeks.

Looking out seedlings in open ground

Before landing the representative of the Bakhcheva culture in open soil, you need to harden. This process is that the temperature in which seedlings contains are gradually decreased, and watering plants decreases.

Planting watermelons to an open ground will pass without problems if you make these steps in the morning hours. It is necessary to extract seedlings with a lore land in which the roots of the representative of Bakhchykh cultures are concluded.

Between plants, a distance of 1000 millimeters is observed. After the seedlings are planted, they need to pour and cover with underfloor material.

We care about watermelons

Caring for watermelons in open ground and watering - the basis of excellent yield. So that the plants in the open ground grew well, they must be abundantly watered. Only after the fruits are formed, the process of watering can be stopped.

So how to grow watermelons? It is best to prepare seeds, choose the desired container, observe the temperature regime and then plant them into open soil in distance from each other, from time to time watering seedlings. In this case, you are waiting for a stunning harvest of ripe and fragrant watermelons.

Photo of growing watermelov