I. Introduction

Golden-silk twisted melon skin is thin, thin, fragrant and slightly sweet, and can be fried, cold, fried or soup, and cooked into dishes with various flavors. When eating, pat the melon around, cut it, stir it or put it in a pot for a few minutes, and stir it with chopsticks to form golden filaments, which are like "vermicelli" and taste like "jellyfish". The shark's fin melon is made into sweet and sour shark's fin melon by cold mixing with a little seasoning. Its color is golden, crisp, sweet and sour, and fragrant, and you can taste the natural taste of golden silk melon, which is really a rare delicacy. Shredded, stir-fried and boiled in soup, it is also tender and refreshing, and it is a vegetable with good color, fragrance and taste.

In addition, the golden-silk twisted melon has a hard shell, which is convenient for storage. It can also be dried and stored for a long time without breaking or rotting, soaked in water before eating, and its taste is delicious, or it can be stored for more than 6 months by freezing. It can be seen that the golden-silk twisted melon is a vegetable that can be eaten in all seasons.

When Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty, he tasted this melon and praised it as "clearing the heart to quench thirst, crisp and refreshing".

Second, planting techniques

1, planting time

Cucurbita melo can be planted in spring and autumn, such as protected cultivation all year round. Sow in March and April in spring, raise seedlings with nutrient blocks or nutrient bowls, or cover the seedbed with film, and transplant after the temperature rises. It can also be cultivated in the field covered with plastic film in mid-April or directly planted in the field from the end of April to the beginning of May. Sow in autumn from June to July in the same way as zucchini.

2. Planting method

Before planting, apply 2 cubic meters to 3 cubic meters of decomposed farmyard manure, and cooperate with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer. Plant spacing is 40 cm, small row spacing is 50 cm ~ 60 cm, large row spacing is 1 m, and mu planting is 1500 to 2000 plants.

3. After field planting, cover the soil, water enough to promote early seedling, water less at seedling stage, and intertillage more to improve ground temperature and promote root growth. When the number of leaves increases to 9-12, the plant will enter the fruiting stage, and nitrogen fertilizer can be applied 1 time in the early melon stage, and urea is applied at 7.5-/kloc-per mu. Appropriate application of potassium fertilizer or compound fertilizer during flowering and fruiting period. After the first melon is harvested, 5-7.5 kilograms of urea can be applied per mu to prevent premature aging and yield reduction.

4, pest control

Cucurbita melo has a strong resistance to stress, and there are generally no pests and diseases, but it is necessary to prevent it. Don't plant on plots where melons have been planted; The seeds should be disinfected. When accelerating germination, the seeds can be soaked with melon continuous cropping agent or 1000 times of formalin 1 hour, then washed with clear water, soaked for 3-4 hours, dried, kept at 28℃-32℃, and accelerated for 12 hours, then the seeds can be planted. Cucumber varieties are easy to be infected with virus diseases and anthracnose in the high temperature of multiple seasons. The prevention and control of virus diseases is mainly to eliminate aphids. When the diseased plants are found, they are pulled out and burned, and the uninfected plants are sprayed with virus A or Phytophthora Ⅱ, and at the same time, aphid control agents are added, once every 5 to 7 days and sprayed 3 to 4 times.