When will the gourd be planted?

As the saying goes, on March 3, plant a gourd. Generally, gourds are planted from late March to early April.

The optimum growth temperature of gourd is 15℃-28℃. Flowering: June-July

Cultivation method: first, select fertile loam, and then raise seedlings in seedling pots or greenhouse ground. Select seeds with full grains for seedling raising and sowing. Blanch the seeds with 70℃ hot water and stir quickly. Soak seeds 12 hours when the water temperature drops to 30℃, and then accelerate germination at 28℃-30℃. It will germinate in 3-4 days. When the bud length is 0.5- 1cm, it is planted in the seedling pot and the soil is the seedling soil.

Sowing method: the seeds are laid flat, covered with 1cm soil, then watered, covered with newspaper until they germinate, so as to avoid water evaporation, and placed in a semi-shady place where water cannot be touched. Keep the soil surface moisture, and seedlings will emerge in ten days. Sow when there is no wind on a sunny day, and water the seedbed first. Transplanting cultivation: after 30-40 days of cultivation, the seedlings grow four true leaves, which can be transplanted and planted in the open field.

At the same time, choose fertile, sunny, well-drained places, apply sufficient base fertilizer, dig deep appropriately, with a spacing of about 50 cm between plants, pour enough water, fertilize in time after survival, and build scaffolding in time 1-2 times a month to facilitate climbing. The skin of the tender fruit is sticky and stops growing when touched. This feature can be used to produce neat and consistent gourds.

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Buckwheat (variety)

Different from gourd (original variety), the ovary is cylindrical; The fruit is symmetrical, cylindrical, straight or slightly arched, 60-80 cm long, and the flesh is green and white. It is cultivated all over the country, and it is also widely cultivated in the Yangtze River basin. The fruit is soft and juicy when tender, and can be used as a vegetable. ?

zucchini

Different from the gourd (original variety), the plant is stronger and the fruit is smaller, only about 10 cm long, although it looks like a gourd. Our country is more cultured.

The fruit of this variety is medicinal, and the shell is lignified after ripening, which can be used as children's toys. Seed oil can be used to make soap.

Gourd (variety)

The main difference between this variety and gourd (original variety) is that the fruit is oblate, with a diameter of about 30 cm. It is cultivated everywhere.

The fruit of this variety can be used to make water scoops and containers; Many ethnic minorities in ancient and modern times also used it as a musical instrument, which is a kind of "eight tones". Southwest minorities regard it as a kind of gourd sheng or gourd silk with beautiful timbre.

Annual climbing herbs; The stems and branches are wrinkled and mucilaginous villous, and gradually fall off when they are old, becoming almost hairless.

The petiole is slender, with a length of16-20cm, the indumentum is the same as that of the stem, and there are two glands at the top. Leaf blade is ovate, heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, with length and width of 10-35cm, undivided or 3-5-lobed, 5-7 palmately veined, with sharp apex, irregular teeth on the edge, heart-shaped base, curved and notched, semicircular or nearly round, deep 1-3cm, 2-6cm wide, and puberulent on both sides. Tendrils are slender, puberulent at first, and then gradually fall off, becoming smooth and hairless, and the upper part is bifurcated. Monoecious, female flowers and male flowers are solitary.

Male flowers: pedicels are thin, slightly longer than petioles, and pedicels, calyx and corolla are puberulent; Calyx tube funnelform, about 2 cm long, lobes lanceolate, 5 mm long; Corolla yellow, lobes wrinkled, 3-4 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, tip emarginate, 5 veins; Stamens 3, filaments 3-4 mm long, anthers 8- 10 mm long, rectangular, anthers folded.

Pedicels of female flowers are slightly shorter or almost as long as petioles; Calyx and corolla are like male flowers; Calyx tube 2-3 mm long; Ovary is thin in the middle, densely sticky villous, short and thick style, 3 stigmas, swollen, 2-lobed.

The fruit is green at first, and then turns from white to yellow. Due to long-term cultivation, the fruit shape varies greatly, and varies with varieties or varieties. Some are dumbbell-shaped, narrow in the middle and swollen up and down. The upper part is larger than the lower part, and it is several tens of centimeters long. Some are only 10 cm long (small gourd), and some are oblate, rod-shaped or structural. When they mature, the skin becomes woody. The seeds are white, obovate or triangular, truncated at the top or 2-toothed, sparsely round, about 20 mm long. It blooms in summer and bears fruit in autumn.

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