undercooked.

You can press the skin and meat of winter melon by hand. Fresh and good quality winter melon is characterized by hard and thick skin and tight meat, so it is hard to press it. If it feels soft, it means that it has been placed for a long time, so cook it for a while.

Wax gourd, an annual creeping or scaffolding herb of the genus Wax gourd in Cucurbitaceae, is characterized by yellow-brown bristles and villous stems, furrowed stems, stout petioles, coarse bristles and villous hairs, monoecious flowers, long cylindrical or nearly spherical fruits, large, bristles and hoarfrost, and oval seeds.

introduction of wax gourd

wax gourd is mainly distributed in other tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, and is cultivated in all parts of China. There are wild people in southern Yunnan, China, and the fruit is far smaller. It is also distributed in eastern Australia and Madagascar. In addition to being used as vegetables, wax gourd fruit can also be soaked into various sweets, peels and seeds for medicinal purposes, which has the effects of anti-inflammation, diuresis and detumescence.

The pests and diseases of wax gourd mainly include aphids, bugs, whiteflies, mites, red spiders and melon-eating flies. In general, non-melon crops are used for planting, and measures can be taken to dig deep into the soil, bury pests in the soil so that they cannot reproduce and grow, or apply lime, organic fertilizer and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer.