Luffa is cultivated in a flat shed, which requires a lot of bamboo plates for scaffolding, which is complicated and time-consuming, increases the cost, and the cultivation technology is troublesome to harvest. In Haikou Town, Daguan District, Anqing City, Anhui Province, farmers choose narrow-border stand cultivation in production, which saves time and materials, has low cost, and is also very convenient to fertilize, spray, pick melons and prune vines in the field. When vines are drawn vertically along the cultivation border, in the summer and autumn growing season with southeasterly winds, the natural ventilation has excellent light transmittance, the heat and water vapor in the field are released quickly, the main stems grow vigorously, the relativity of pests and diseases is reduced, and the fruit setting rate is improved. By adopting this kind of narrow-border vertical frame cultivation, the number of cultivated plants per acre is only about 30% of that of the traditional flat melon shed, which can save 60-70% of seeds, but increase the output by more than 1 0%, with the output of more than 5000KG per acre and the annual output of more than 5,000 yuan.
Erection of scaffolding: Insert 1 2.5-meter-long bamboo poles on both sides of the cultivation border every one meter, and tie the four poles together in a "m" shape. Pull a horizontal rope horizontally at the junction of bamboo poles 1.8 meters away from the road surface, so as to connect the "m" racks on the border. Then use plastic rope to distance from the road surface; Pull a horizontal rope horizontally at two meters. In order to better improve the ability of resisting wind and rain, a column with a height of 2 meters and a thickness of 6-8 cm can be erected on both sides of each border (the border is 50-60 meters long) or a precast concrete building steel member with a length of 7 cm, a width of 8 cm and a height of 2 cm can be used as an upright, and a horizontal rope is tied to the upright at the highest point, which can be preserved for many years.
Melon vine finishing: when the seedling is 20 cm high, gradually draw the vine, pull the main vine to the lower horizontal rope, and let the melon vine grow along the rope. The separated sub-vines and sun vines grow on the lower horizontal rope or on the upper horizontal rope. Cut off all the lateral vines below the first female flower, and immediately lead and tie the vines. Generally, the lateral vines will not be cut off after release. In the high-yield period, some yellow leaves, diseased leaves and some small lateral vines are cut off, and too many male flowers and tendrils are picked to facilitate natural ventilation and transparency and reduce the consumption of nutrients. In the second half of full fruit and the first half of August, half of the fruiting plants should be removed, and each plant should be broken from the root to stop the growth of the main stem, so as to ensure the natural ventilation and light transmission in the field and have no harm to the yield.
Artificial pollination: when the temperature is slightly lower in April, or when the temperature is too high in July and August, it is easy to produce a big cone-shaped melon, with more bent melons and more pregnant melons. Using artificial pollination can improve the fruit setting rate, reduce abnormal melons such as cone-shaped melons, and basically ensure that the fruit strips are flat and grow fast. Before 8:00 every day, select the female flowers that are open to the public on that day, remove their flowers, expose the anthers, and wipe them on the female flower pillars.
Topdressing management: The main stem of towel gourd cultivated in narrow border stands grows faster, and fertilization should be done immediately. After seedling delay, 7.5-1 0 kg urea solution should be used. One month after planting, gradually sit on melons, and after picking 5-6 melons continuously, 1 mu topdressing ternary compound fertilizer 12.5- 15KG. In the middle and late stage of fruiting, in early July 1 mu of top dressing peanut bran 150KG, and 40-50kg of ternary compound fertilizer, holes are opened at a distance of 30-50cm from the main vine for use. In the middle and late August, urea solution 1 mu was applied twice, * * *, to avoid loofah from fertilization and aging.
Pest control: there are relatively few diseases of towel gourd cultivated in narrow beds, and the key local diseases are virus disease, aphid and melon silk moth. 20% virus infection a (moroxydine hydrochloride? Copper) wettable powder 500 times solution+cytokinin (Wanshuai No.2, generic name 0.000 1% hydroxyene adenine? Adenine wettable powder) or 200-300 times of 2% ningnanmycin solution to relieve symptoms. The early aphids (melon aphids) were prevented with 10% acetamiprid wettable powder 1500-5000 times solution, and the middle and late stages were prevented with 1% emamectin benzoate EC 2500-3000 times solution, generally every 7- 10 days/kl.
Although loofah looks like a common vegetable and its price is very cheap, it actually has a lot of functions!
Treat all kinds of diseases
If you often eat loofah, it can help you treat chronic sinusitis, tonsillitis, cold cough, insufficient milk, hemorrhoid-caused bleeding in stool, nerve pain, urticaria and excessive sweating on your feet, and also reasonably whiten your skin and delay aging.
Supplementing various nutrient elements
Luffa has a high nutritional value. Luffa contains B vitamins such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, citrulline and riboflavin, vitamin C, and also contains saponin, a component contained in ginseng.
Purging milk under meridians
Luffa is sweet and flat in taste, and has the functions of clearing summer heat, dispersing blood, removing toxic substances, moistening intestines, expelling wind, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, moistening muscles, caring skin, dredging channels and collaterals, promoting qi and blood circulation, draining milk, etc. Its collaterals, seeds, vines, flowers and leaves can all be used as medicines.
Whitening freckle removing spot
It is very beneficial for women to eat more loofah, which contains B vitamins to avoid skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin. It can maintain skin, remove soft spots, and make skin white and tender. It is a rare top grade of beauty and skin care, so loofah juice is called "Beauty Water".
Regulate menstrual disorder
Taking it for a long time or wiping your face with loofah liquid can also make your skin smoother and more delicate; In addition, loofah also has the functions of clearing away summer heat, dispersing blood, removing toxic substances and moistening intestines, and regulating irregular menstruation, etc. Women with menstrual disorders, physical weakness and cold constitution should eat more.