( Update: 20/03/2015 )
Melon "passion" of organic fertilizers, especially manure
Melon grows well in soils with thick surface layer, nutrient-rich, well-drained, with a pH 6 - 7 The soil should plowcarefully, cleaning up the lawn and beds.
This plant is propagated mainly by seed. Trees are planted in clumps, each clump 2-3 seed, then covered with athick layer of soil 2 - 3cm. When the seeds will germinate slowly thinning trees to healthy leaves.
Melon can be grown under the canal, with plants spaced 60 - 75 cm between rows and 150 - 200cm. Planting density of about 10000-15000 plants / ha. Can also sowing in the nursery until the baby is 4 weeks old trees areplanted out in the area of mass.
If direct seeding in the field is needed per hectare to 1.5 - 2kg seeds but if sown before potting, only 0.5 kg of seedsfor planting melons 1ha.Thuong people on the high fields after harvested rice. This Melons planted with rice rotationusually avoid insect pathogens and nematodes. After harvest, the land is plowed exposed frontier, carefullyplowing, cleaning the lawn, up the beds before planting. Demand for fertilizers is very high with melons, organicmanure from a pit to 20-35 tons / ha.
Depending on the fertility and structure of soil that object selection methods suitable fertilizer. In order for 20 tons offruit / ha, melon land taken away in a relatively large amount of nutrients including: 60 - 120 kg N, 20 - 40 kgP2O5, 120 - 140kg K2O, 100 - 140kg CaO and 20 - 60 kg MgO. During growth the addition of NPK fertilizerdiluted water is also essential. Should use straw to cover around trees and leaves and fruit thinning down (each treeleaving only 3-5 is the best result).
Melon is not "popular" chemical based fertilizers, just "like" organic fertilizers, especially manure. If multiplechemical abuse, when ripe melon will spongy, discrete, loss of appetite, shortness of storage and transportationwhen consumed. Conversely cow dung as fertilizer, when ripe melon will have a certain viscosity, not broken anddistinct aroma. Also, watering should gradually limit when the original melon (melon out first) old (soon nine), if too much water during this period both costly easier for rotten melon, melon is not high quality.
To the contrary melon soup should press the top right time, helping to melon-splitting capability, which also left more.Approximately 15 days after planting, the first press tops and urea using low doses to stimulate the developmentmelon sprouts (branches), and tonics used 3 green plant growth. The pest also noteworthy perform periodic