Longbeet is the Buddha's hand melon seedling, in our place, also called it "soil ear melon seedling". In recent years, with its rich nutrition and delicious taste, gradually on the people's table.
The Buddha's hand melon is a perennial vine plant, a planting, years of picking. Seedlings come out around March every year, and start bearing fruit from around May until fall. In our rural area here, basically every family grows it. But it is not planted to eat its seedlings, but basically to pick Buddha's hand melon. Buddha's hand melon is surprisingly productive, has a good flavor, and can be extremely rough to manage. Pour a bucket of farmyard fertilizer over a single Buddha's hand melon when it comes out of the seedling, and you can pick it indefinitely until late fall.
Introduction
And now, because of the popularity of the Buddha's hand melon seedlings with consumers, there is also a specialization in the growing of lobster. Unlike melon use planting is seedling use planting is required to plant densely. Three or four of them can be planted on one acre of mountainous land for melon planting, while for seedling planting, about 300 plants can be cultivated on one acre.
Basically, an acre of land needs to be watered with about 20 quintals of farmyard fertilizer, and then the land is ploughed y, tilled and mounded. The row spacing for planting longbeard is about 2 meters and the plant spacing is about 1 meter.