The ground for planting oxleg pumpkins needs sandy loam or sunny loam, which is convenient for irrigation and drainage and has high soil fertility.
2. Variety selection
Mainly choose varieties that are resistant to disease, stress, storage and transportation and suitable for export. This variety requires strong branches, hammer-shaped melon stalks, swollen tops, few seeds and concentrated tops. When the melon is ripe, the peel is orange-yellow, the pulp is thick, the pulp is orange-red, the starch is fine, the taste is sweet, the water content is low, the quality is good, the stress resistance is strong, and it is resistant to storage and transportation.
3. honey pumpkin sowing method: seedling raising and transplanting in nutrient bowl
4. Pumpkin sowing date: from mid-March to early April.
5. Preparation of nutrient soil: 20 days before sowing, the melon-free part of vegetable garden soil and farmyard manure are mixed and stacked according to the ratio of 3:4.
6. Burdock pumpkin seed dosage: 75- 100g per mu.
7. Treatment of Cucurbita pepo seeds: Before sowing, soak the seeds in warm water at 55℃15min, continuously stir, naturally cool, soak for 6-8h, drain the water, wrap them with wet cloth or wet towel, and finally put them in an environment of 25-30℃ for germination. Rotate the seeds every 4-5 hours. When most seeds turn white in about 2 days, you can sow.
8. Sowing method of oxleg pumpkin: Before putting it into the nutrition bowl, you can spread a layer of immature dung grass on the seedbed to increase the ground temperature. Fill the gap between bowls with fine soil, one grain in each bowl, and the seeds can be planted flat. Covered with 2cm thick nutrient soil, covered with plastic film for heat preservation and moisture retention, and covered with small arch shed. Before seedling emergence, the temperature of seedbed should be kept at 25-30℃ to facilitate the rapid and orderly emergence of seedlings. When the temperature is low at night, add a layer of grass curtain or 2-3 layers of sunshade net on the small arch shed to keep warm.
9. Cucurbita pepo seedling management: uncover the film in time after emergence, and the seedbed temperature is 15-25℃ during the day and 10- 18℃ at night. In the process of seedling raising, keep the seedbed dry and moist. When the humidity is high, sprinkle some hay and tree ash to absorb water. In sunny days, you can choose to spray 0.5% potassium hydrogen phosphate solution for 2-3 times, or pour decomposed organic liquid fertilizer to provide nutrients and promote growth. The seedling age is 25-30 days. Plant 1-2 real leaves in time.
10. Preparation of base fertilizer: cow dung 1-2 kg, calcium superphosphate 100 kg, compound fertilizer 100 kg, and composting 10 days or more shall be prepared as base fertilizer per mu. When preparing soil, 2 kilograms of biological potassium fertilizer can be sprayed per mu to improve the disease resistance and cold resistance of plants, improve the quality and shape of pumpkins and increase the yield.
1 1. Planting specifications: planting 180-500 pumpkins per mu, with the specific number selected according to local climate, soil fertility and pruning methods. Pumpkin planting is to dig a hole, with a width of 4m, a height of 20cm, a hole spacing of 0.8m, a hole depth of 20cm and a width of 40cm. One plant is planted in each hole and climbed by itself. Or the boundary width is 6 meters, the spacing between plants (holes) is 0.8 meters, and one plant is planted in each hole for climbing. First, the prepared base fertilizer is evenly applied into the hole, mixed with soil and transplanted. After transplanting, inject enough root-fixing water, pay attention to the occurrence of rodent damage and replant in time.