When is the best time to plant gourds?
This article provides a detailed introduction to the best time to plant gourds and the planting methods and management of ornamental plants and flowers for netizens. Next, the editor will introduce.
About the gourd sentiment: Kid, I have a purple gourd, if I call your name, dare you answer? Every teenager has a gourd sentiment. Whether it's Sun Wukong's big gourd for collecting the sky, the old immortal drinking from a gourd, or the seven gourds on a vine, all have a great relationship with gourds.
When we were little, we only asked our parents for a gourd, but as we grew up, we were caught up in life and forgot about these gourd sentiments. It wasn't until I saw this topic that I remembered that having a well-made gourd has always been a childhood dream.
Planting a gourd in the appropriate season every year, after harvest, whether it is made into a decoration, cut into two halves, or for children at home, it is a good choice to prepare one for them to play Sun Wukong's game.
About the sowing time of gourds.
"Before and after Qingming, plant melons and beans. Confused and ignorant, plant seeds at Qingming." Watermelons, muskmelons, winter melons, wax gourds, and luffas are all sown at this time, which is during the Qingming festival. If you want to plant and harvest a little earlier, you can germinate indoors and then transplant to outdoors when they reach a certain size.
There is also another saying that gourds represent fortune and longevity. If you are making crafts to hang at home or in your vehicle to seek fortune and longevity, then planting at 9:09 am on the third day of the third lunar month and harvesting at noon on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the most suitable, because March 3rd signifies vitality and September 9th signifies longevity.
About the planting methods of gourds.
Gourd planting can be divided into three types. One is "bare sowing," which is widely used. Simply cut open the gourd, sprinkle the seeds on the ground, cover them with a thin layer of soil, water them, and wait for them to germinate, bloom, and bear fruit.
Another is "borrowed sowing," which is more sophisticated. It involves "borrowing" the momentum of watermelon planting to plant gourds. Because watermelon seedling demand is high every year, there are special breeding conditions, while fewer gourds are planted. You can put a few seeds in a seedling tray every year when watermelon seeds are being raised and transplant the gourd seedlings when the watermelon seedlings can be transplanted.
The third is "special sowing," which involves preparing a seedling container indoors, providing the gourd seeds with suitable temperature to germinate, or after sowing outdoors, creating a "small greenhouse" on the sowing ground with a plastic film to allow the gourds to germinate slowly at a suitable temperature. This method is similar to "borrowed sowing," but it is specifically providing conditions for gourd germination.
About gourd germination.
Gourd seeds have a hard seed coat, and if not properly germinated, it is difficult for the seeds to break through the seed coat, greatly reducing the germination rate. If you don't mind the trouble, you can gently crack the seeds without damaging the inner seed, leaving a small gap, then wrap the seeds in gauze, water them, and germinate them at a higher temperature, watering once a day until the seedlings emerge.
The introduction above about the best time to plant gourds and the detailed introduction of the planting methods and management of hand-twisted gourds, have you understood?