How to grow a large pumpkin. Planted seedlings in April

The pumpkin belongs to the berry crops. And it is grown, many gardeners and gardeners. Pumpkin prepare different dishes: delicious salads in the winter, cereal, pastries, cakes, desserts, juices, baked and fried it. There are varieties that are eaten fresh. And so it has grown large, you need to keep some details in growing.

Sorts

You need to select the large-fruited varieties. This year, I chose two varieties of pumpkin, "Madame" and "Smile."

madam

This is middle-grade large-fruited pumpkins. Ripening time - 110-125 days. Dlinnopletistaya. Fruits in color - pink-beige, with frequent fine mesh. The flesh is orange, sweet and crumbly. Grade maturation, is resistant to bacterial diseases powdery mildew.

Smile

Plant bush form. Delicious, macrocarpa and early-maturing varieties with melon aroma. Home whip short, up to 1 m. According to the color orange with white stripes. The flesh is bright orange, as well as sweet and malosochnaya. Application universal.

soil fertility

Pumpkin - it is such a culture that loves a well-fertilized land, especially a lot of organic matter. But it is better when the mold is made locally in the hole. And his need for half a bucket on the plant. It turns warm hole.

When planting seedlings

Shoyu pumpkin seedlings for 3 weeks until the young plants will fall into the ground. It is obtained after April 20th. Sow need to separate the cups, because the roots of sweet pumpkin and vulnerable. Doraschivat seedlings in the greenhouse in May.

when to plant

Pumpkin seedlings are planted under the film 10-15 May. Shelter tidy up after 10 June, when the threat of frost has passed.

How to plant

Doing deep wells up to 40-50 cm. Scheme planting - 100 to 150 cm. At the bottom of the pit pour chopped with an ax or chaff weeds and herbs (nettle, dandelion, celandine, herb from the garden and lawn). This mass is necessary to trample hands (with gloves) or with a shovel. And pour a little more on top of the crushed grass. Next layer - a mold (polvedra minimum - 2 shovels).

If there is no humus, then sprinkle compost.

Then well spill wells with warm water. And add more crushed mass of weeds. All thoroughly mixed with a shovel (all layers).

Seedlings watered before planting. Are planted in the prepared holes to sleep cotyledonary leaves and soil. The soil around the seedling compacted and spill solution "fitosporin-M" (in 5 liters of water was added 1 tbsp. spoon of the drug).

How to care

To have grown large pumpkin, you need to pinch and form shoots that one bush formed no more than 3-4 fruits. If lashes are long, and the fruit will grow small, will be a long time to mature.

When the chief whip reach a length of 1.3-1.5 m, I pinch them top. From the side shoots leave runner 2 (suckers) length of 60-70 cm. Obtained compact bushes. At one plant forms 3 pumpkins that grow large and they can be stored until spring.

Thus, in order to grow a large pumpkin, you must choose the large-fruited varieties, planted seedlings in April, well-fertilized organic and follow the rules of farming.

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