Growing melon on the garden plot

Melon - a frequent guest at the tables at the end of summer. Most often it will be taken to shops from the southern edge of the country, but it turns out that melon can be grown in almost any terrain, the main thing is to know how to do it.

Selection of Melon variety

When choosing a melon variety, you need to take into account the climate of your region, if you have the first frosts occur in early autumn, it is better to choose early varieties. In the southern regions, you can plant any grade of mesh culture. The most popular of them:

1. Alushta - has a high yield, fruits with a juicy flesh, can be stored for a long time after breaking, 1,5 kg is achieved in weight.
2. Dessert - small fruits have a lot of pulp, in weight reaches 1.6 kg, well and is stored for a long time.
3. Golden - has small fruits, with a juicy sweet pulp. The advantage of this variety is rarely sick.
4. Yuzhanka or water lily - has large fruits, up to 2 kg in weight, very rich harvest and sahary pulp.
5. The collective farmer is the most common variety of melons, has an orange painting, the fruits are not large, up to 1 kg with a white sweet pulp. Gives a big harvest.

The most popular melons can be viewed in the photo.

Preparation of soil and seeds

Melon loves the soil rich in mineral fertilizers. And to prepare it best to start from autumn:

1. You need to jump off a bed for melon not very deeply, the bayonet shovel will be enough.
2. It is necessary to sprinkle with a square, approximately three kilograms per square meter.
3. Clay soil must be mixed with river sand, on a square square half-session.
4. In the spring, the soil must be swap again, and add phosphate and potash fertilizers, according to the proportions that are specified on the package.
5. Immediately before landing, the soil should be mixed with nitrogen fertilizers or manure.

Along with the soil, you need to prepare and melon seeds for planting. They can be purchased in the store, and you can make the workpiece yourself. If you decide to prepare the seeds yourself, it will be useful to learn one nuance: from last year's crop seeds do not take it, but leave them to lie down for several years. It is best to use seeds that have been three or four years old, a good crop will grow out of these. And last year's seeds will give a strong plant, but without fruits. Therefore, choosing seeds from melons, dry them and hide into a paper envelope, put a date on it and put in a dry, dark place of the year for three.

For seedlings, seeds need to be sorted, to select only large, then process the special makeup for good germs, which can be bought in any flower shop. Seeds can be soaked for 12 hours in a solution of sulfate zinc and boric acid. And in the cool climate, gardeners advise the seeds to harden, for this you need to first lower them in warm water, then take out the day to give them to lie down at a temperature of 20 degrees, then every day reduce the temperature until it comes to zero, and to hold about such a medium Day, after that gradually increase the temperature to 20 degrees. These manipulations need to be spent three times a week before sowing seeds.

Growing seedlings

To grow seedlings Melon you will need or peat pots, or peat pills, the diameter of which is about 10 cm. Or fill the plastic cups with soil, you can buy already ready in the store, and you can mix part of the sand and nine parts of the peat, add a glass of ash for 10 liters of soil . And then there is a seed landing:

1. Before boarding, you need to soak seeds for a day, at this time empty seeds will pop up, and they will discard them.
2. In one pot, you need to place two or three seeds, to the depth of about three centimeters.
3. Before the first shoots appear, the pots should stand in a cool room, the optimal temperature of 18 degrees. Below 15 degrees of heat temperature should not descend even at night.
4. A week later, you can wait for the first shoots, if all seeds were crushed, then you need to leave only one stronger sprout.
5. After the appearance of the third leaflet, the seedlings are risen, then the development of side shoots begins.
6. Water seedlings are not plentiful, under the root, watch the water does not fall on the leaves.
7. To avoid damage to a black leg, around the legs of a seedling need to sprinkle with dry river sand.
8. Seeds sow for seedlings at the end of April, and after 25 days, in May planted in an open ground.

Rechazzle seedlings in the ground

If the freezers no longer happen at night, and the temperature rests within 10-15 degrees, you can start landing melon into open ground.

1. In the soil prepared since the autumn and a fertilized spring, you need to make small wells, sticking to the distance between them at 70 cm. Such a distance you need to withstand between the beds, and between the melon bushes.
2. Seedlings need to transplange very carefully, not hurt roots. Sit it into the well together with a peat mixture in which she grew in pots.
3. Before boarding in the well, pour water and put a handful of humus.
4. The stem melon do not need to deepen, plant on this depth so that the Earth from the pot of slightly peckled out of the wells. Seedlings to pour and sprinkle with dry ground on top.
5. The first two days to protect the seedlings from the Sun, create her shadow, then it will become quick and painlessly.
6. If at night is still cool, then it is better to plant seedlings under the captive shelter, you can cover at night, and in the afternoon to remove the film. Also, the film can be distributed if there are plentiful rains that melon does not like at all.

Growing melon in greenhouse

The method of growing melon in the greenhouse will suit those who do not know how to grow a melon in a cold climate. Melon in the greenhouse is well tolerated drought and not very good - increased humidity. The temperature for melon should be not lower than 30 degrees during the ripening period.

1. Before boarding, it is necessary to soak seeds for a day, thus will increase and accelerate their germination. The temperature in the greenhouse should be about 25 degrees. It is necessary to plant seeds in peat pots, along with them later and transplant to the soil in the greenhouse.
2. After the first sprouts came up to the formation of good seedlings, melon must be picked up with fertilizers, usually hold two densences per month.
3. With the growth of seedlings, move the pots from each other, so that the plants do not come into contact with the neighboring.
4. A greenhouse for growing melons should be large, it is not necessary to plant the plants. Well, if the greenhouse will be exclusively for basic cultures and there will not be more vegetables and fruits.
5. In April, you can begin to prepare a greenhouse to the planting seedlings. To do this, it is necessary to remove the snow if it is, to carry out repair in the greenhouse, prepare the ground: Speak it and easily humiliate.
6. In May, you can land in a greenhouse melon if it has heating devices, if they are missing, it is better to wait until the nights become warm. If the temperature dropped sharply, which is often in May, you need to cover the seedlings of the film or in the extreme case of the rag, so you will save your seedlings from death.
7. The most qualitative to grow melons, specialists consider a greenhouse built of polycarbonate.

Plant care

To put a melon in the ground is still half the following, most importantly, it is necessary to care for her:

1. Between the rows, the land should be not deeper than 10 cm, neatly oven plants. After the first side vacations appeared, the mesh culture must be dipped.
2. Watering a melka is very moderately, on Bakhch, she is generally growing without moisture, so you need to create the same conditions when growing melons in the open ground or in a greenhouse. If you have noticed dew on the grass in the morning, then on this day it is not necessary to water at all. When watering, make sure that the water does not get fruit, leaves and stem.
3. The first pinching of the plant occurs at the seedlings stage. After the melon was transplanted into the ground, you need to pinch again. Remove the main stem after the seventh leaves. The same thing on the side weaves to make extra flowers to delete, leave only three fetus that have already started. At the same time, to ensure that these fruits are at a distance from each other, and not near. And all the shoots that without fruits, you need to remove so that they do not pull all the juices in vain.
4. Two weeks after disembarking into the ground, the plant needs to be filled. You can use Selitra, Dung from under Curia or Cows. Next, it is necessary to feed the plant every ten days. When the fruits fall, it will only remain waiting for their maturation, stop feeding.
5. Weeding on the beds should be done as weeds grow. It is necessary to constantly follow the growth of the woven, and send them themselves so that they do not fall between the rows. Under each fruit you have to put a plate, in this case, the melon does not start from the fact that it lies on the ground.

In fact, the care of melons is very similar to the care of cucumbers. And if you know how to grow these green vegetables, then there should be no problems with how to plant and grow a melon. Melon can be broken as already ripe and slightly immature, then it reaches the house to ripe state.