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Today is an article about pumpkin - growing and caring for it in the open ground.

Everyone is familiar with pumpkin. Who can not know about the queen of the gardens? There are a lot of useful substances in the pumpkin, and I will tell you about them, but the detailed conversation today will be about growing pumpkin and care in the open soil.

In the fruits of this vegetable, many vitamins and minerals, useful and children and adults accumulate. Its fruits contain salts of potassium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium fluorine, calcium, sodium, copper, vitamins from the first to last letters, carotes, dietary fiber and pectins. Juice is prescribed for the treatment of prostatitis, cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract, stones. The flesh of these fruits accelerates the metabolism. Pumpkin fruits are widely used in cooking. It is preparing the first dishes, side dishes, jelly, zucats. Pooked, compotes, baked and marinate. Here is such a versatile and useful vegetable, and now let's return to the main topic

How to grow a pumpkin and ensure the right care

Pumpkin is quite unpretentious culture. It can be grown in almost all climatic belts, the main thing is to choose the right variety. In the southern zone of Russia, where many sunny days and a long warm period, any variety can be grown.

Varieties for the Urals and Siberia

For the Urals and Siberia, you need to choose or early grades or those that are seen during storage.
For cultivation in our harsh edges, such varieties are suitable as:

Pearl

Ripens the harvest after 100-10 days, the fruit weighs 5 -7 kg, the pulp has a nutmeg aroma, long stored, has an excellent taste, the plant is well tolerating the unfavorable weather conditions, yield to 15 kg / m2.

Brown golden

The fruits ripen in 90-105 days, the weight of one fetus is 2.8-3.7kg. Grows compact bush, meal juicy, very tasty, yield - up to 15 kg / sq. M

Bush orange

From shortcoming to harvesting 92-104 days. The weight of one pumpkin is 4-7kg, the flesh is sweet, juicy, tasty. Carotene is more than in carrots, yield 13.4 kg / m2.

Medical

The birthplace of the Kuban variety. A short time to remove the fruits allows you to grow this variety in the Urals, in Western Siberia and Eastern Siberia. The variety gives a good crop despite the July cooling with protracted rains.

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Growing pumpkin on warm bed

Traditionally, in a short and not always warm summer, pumpkin is grown on warm beds or composted piles.
It is easy to make a warm bed, but will require physical effort. In the fall, on the station allotted for the garden dig a trench. Not more than a meter width, as needed. In the depth, it should be at least 40 cm. In her first fold branches and a twig. Then layer of leaves, healthy tops, beveled grass. Next, semi-proverse manure.

Final layer - nutrient soil. It should be 20-30 cm. Spring, about a month before sowing, the prepared bed is shed plenty of hot water. The process of "burning" of manure will begin, the garden is heated. After a month, the soil cools up to the desired temperature. It will be possible to start sowing.

Preparation of seeds

Seeds of all pumpkin begin to prepare to sow in advance. To make more female flowers seeds warming up. It is enough for 2 months to hold the seeds in the paper package near the battery.

For sowing is taken by small, but heavy seeds. Propsychiatrics are rebeling in solid solution 1 tsp. Salts on a glass of water. Seeds that surfaced can be thrown out remaining washed and dried. Seed seeds germinate.
For 2-3 days before sowing, Sichle disinfected - withstand water (45-50 ° C) 2-3 hours. Next they are germinated. The root appeared is a signal to the fact that the seeds are ready for sowing.

Landing in the ground under the film

Increase the cold resistance of shoots by hardening. Sprouted seeds leave in a humid material for 3-5 days at the bottom of the refrigerator.
By the time the appropriate weather is established, moisture in the soil may not be enough. This moves the appearance of shoots at a later time and slows their growth. Before sowing seeds, 1,5-2 liters of hot water is poured into each well. In warm land, seeds are put and fall asleep soil. Severed beds are covered with film.

When sprouts appear, the film is cut over them, the plants come out and grow up. The temperature of the soil under the film becomes above 4 - 5 ° C.
If you use the method of mixed crops, the probability of obtaining shoots will increase. Seeds sow at different depths, simultaneously with sprouted sow dry seeds, which will come later. If the sprouted seeds will go and nothing happened to them, then the sprouts that started later. Hold shoots is not recommended - you can damage the remaining sprouts.

At the occurrence of sustainable heat, you can build a support for which pumpkin's screens, as in the photo, for example.

Growing pumpkin across seedlings

The harvest of long-stored varieties or early harvest will work out if we grow a pumpkin through seedlings.
For this, the greenhouse is suitable or well lit, the southern windowsill in the apartment. To obtain seedlings, seeds also warm up, disinfected and germinate. Processed seeds sow 20 days before planting seedlings into the ground. It is better to grow seedlings in peat pots, a volume of at least 0.4l. So that the soil in such pots slower dried up, the pot must be put into deep container, and all gaps are filled with a moisture substrate - sand or peat.

An earthy mixture is suitable for this, from a well-laid peat, humoring, turf, and reworked manure in proportion 5: 3: 1: 1. While the seeds did not go, the temperature must be maintained 18-25 ° C during the day and 15-18 ° C at night. When shooting appearance, the temperature is reduced by 5-6 days to 15-18 ° F, and up to 12-13 ° C at night. It will not allow seedlings to stretch out. Then the temperature is raised to the previous level.

It is important to ensure that the soil does not drive in the landing capacitors. Watering should be moderate, but regular. Excess moisture leads to stretching plants.
When the shoots will turn 7 days, hold the first feeding. For this, a solution of nitroposki is prepared (15 g per 10 l).

The correct seedlings have a short and strong stem, small interstices and two or three dark green sheets.

With the establishment of heat, seedlings are transferred to a permanent place. Prepared wells are pre-watered with warm water. Omitting seedlings in the garden should be destroyed by the walls of peat pots.

Herself in Teplitsa -Golova on the street

This method of planting seedlings is possible. Pumpkin seedlings are planting in the southern part of the greenhouse. When the stem will grow more than 50 cm - dropping, lifting the film, send to an open area. The roots of the plant remain in the greenhouse, and the stem is warm in the sun. Ripens harvest with such a landing earlier for 8-10 days.

Plant formation

Collect a decent pumpkin harvest can be only with correctly formed plants. Pumpkin bushes form in one or two escapes.
When the bush is formed into one escape, all side processes and unnecessary wounds are removed. There should be no more than three barrows on the stem. Leaving 3-4 sheets over the last routine, the growth point is removed.
On formed in two escapes - leave the main stem and one side. On the main stem, 2 fetus leave, on the side - one. Left shoots after the ovary, leaving 3-4 sheets, cut off.

We remove extra shoots

Pumpkin care

It is very important to sprinkle the stems of the earth. When they grow more meters in length, they are sent to the right direction and put to the ground in several places. At these places roots grow, which provide a plant with additional nutrition.

You need to water the pumpkin, but wrapping the soil for 1 meter depth. She "pulls out a large amount of moisture from the soil, evaporating it through the leaves. Stressed watering pumpkin is required before flowering and with fetus breathing.

The irregularity of irrigation leads to the fact that the firm bark of pumpkin cracks.

In order for the arrival of moisture to the roots occurred evenly, a plastic bottle can be chopped up with a plastic bottle, with a volume of at least 3 liters. Drill holes in the lid, turn the neck down and insert it next to the plant. In the bottom also need to pierce the hole. Water from the bottle will evenly supply the plant to moisture.

Video about pinching pumpkin

Diseases and pests

Pumpkin - sufficiently stable to external factors. But there are diseases and pests on it. Of the diseases the most dangerous rot and bacteriosis. From the pests on the planting pumpkins more often there are aphid mesh and web tick.

Rot More often when watering cold water, a large difference in daytime and night temperatures. For prophylaxis, an extraxnealing feeder with microfertilizers is carried out, only heated water is watered. For treatment, the Bordeaux mixture is used.

To combat S. by a paustic tick Use the infusion of onion husks (200 grams of husks are poured with boiling water, and after 3-4 hours they dilute up to 10 liters and used). For better sticking into the solution, you can add a household soap.

From tli Get rid of an incentive of 50g soap, 200g of wood ash in 10 liters of water.

Errors when growing pumpkin,

which reduce the amount and quality of the crop.

Error №1 . The use of large seeds for sowing.
When sowing any pumpkin culture, you should never use the largest seeds. The growing plants will give powerful tops, and a weak harvest. You need to choose the greatest.

Error number 2. . Insufficient food area.
For pumpkins you need a large area. The case is in the root system, which is very developed. It is necessary to plant a bushes not closer than 3 meters from each other.

Error number 3. . What depth to sow seeds.
In the northern regions where there is little heat and a lot of moisture, seed seed shallow. Sude deeper in the south.

Error number 4. . Grow pumpkin in the garden.
Plant pumpkin with fruit trees is not the best solution. Pumpkin trees do not interfere - there is enough lighting. But frequent watering, so necessary pumpkin, harmful to trees.

Error number 5. . Pumpkin on a compost pile.
A common practice is to grow pumpkin on a dung or compost pile. With a lack of heat in our Urals, this is a very common way. It is only necessary to consider that with such a landing, the growing fruits will not be sweet, the pulp will turn out to be loose and they will not be stored for a long time.

Harvesting

Pumpkin's ripeness is easily determined by a solid, dry fruit characteristic of a given grade crust pattern.
When harvesting, the fruits are cut together with the fruit. This extends the shelf life of the harvest. Further, 7-10 days of pumpkins are dried, preferably in the sun. At this time, an excess moisture is removed and the outer layer is strengthened.
Save 1-2 months you can pumpkin any variety. For longer storage, a large-scale pumpkin is chosen, in which the outdoor peel is dense, and there are many dry substances in the pulp.

To preserve this vegetable until the next harvest, the fruits fold on a dry bedding, laying apart from each other. Optimal storage conditions + 6-8 ° C, humidity no higher than 75%, ventilated basement. Under these conditions, winter pumpkins can be stored until the next harvest. In the warmth of the urban apartment, mature pumpkins will lay no more than six months.

Video about growing pumpkin

I wish you to grow sweet, big pumpkin for joy.

In Russia appeared in the 16th century and to this day is widely used. For our huge country, this is a universal culture due to what can be grown in almost all regions. Pumpkin has been widely used on the table of a simple town man. William Pokhlebkin defined her a separate honorable place in his "encyclopedia of culinary art."

Pumpkin - a peculiar package of nutrients and vitamins. And fully in it all:

• useful and tasty seeds, oil from which is low-allergy and is an anti-inflammatory and reducing agent;
• pleasant pulp, which contains a number of important vitamins, including rare vitamin T (normalizing metabolism).

Lovers of this cult will surely become interested.

With the word "pumpkin", many of us immediately imagine a rather big round fruit of bright yellow or orange.

But in fact, the pumpkin row is extremely diverse and in shape, and in color, and to taste. There are many inedible, decorative varieties.

Not everyone knows that well-known and is, it turns out, also pumpkins. However, this article will be discussed about the usual edibles, the most common: pumpkin ordinary (hard screw), pumpkin of nutmeg and pumpkin.

Pumpkin landing

• Pumpkin hotels, it is important to understand that it is South, which has a major long root and a lot of branched little roots, located to the ground closer than the main root, somewhere by 40-50 cm, so fertile top layer is important for her.

• Pumpkin can branch, can grow a bush, in a word, it is necessary to provide her space. That is, planting plants recommended no closer than 50 cm from each other.

• Pumpkin needs to be planted, in the south of Russia there are entire Bakhchi under it, in places where the sun is all day. In medium latitudes you need to choose the most sunny and south side. +25 ° C - the optimal temperature for the growth of pumpkin, at +14 ° C is stopped.

• Pumpkin can be planted on any, but only fertile is able to give you the larger size.

• In the fall, organic and minerals are introduced under the people. In the soil it is desirable to make phosphorus-potash fertilizers. In acidic soil, as well as for most garden crops, it is necessary to contribute or. You can also make, and immediately in the well immediately before landing. Fresh fits this culture very well. Moreover, in areas with a cool climate, pumpkin sow on the composted piles, adding sand and a bit of the turf. They are well warmed by the sun and rich in nutrients.

In the presence of light fertile land, pumpkin seeds plant straight to the ground without creating a bed. If the soil is heavy and there is a lot of moisture in it, it is better to do and sow seeds already in them. The beds also make for a nutmeg pumpkin to provide her as warm, well warmed soil.

Pumpkins can be planted immediately into the ground, but you can use a seed basis. The exception is the pumpkin is nutmeg so that this species can ripen in medium latitudes, it is planted only by sedale.

• Pumpkin predecessors can be: , .
• Unsuitable The role of predecessors related cultures:, patissons, zucchini.

Pumpkin planting in soil

Seeds before planting heat first For 9 hours at a temperature of + 40 ° C and soak in a solution of ash and water to 12 hours (2 tbsp. Spoons of ash are added to 1 liter of hot boiled water). It is necessary so that the germs of the pumpkin breath and could easily break through the skirt. My grandmother in front of the landing warmed them in the oven, then wrapped the seeds in gauze, rolled up several layers, and uringed in the ash solution, after swelling, prepared seeds to land.

You can also immediately land seeds into the ground, not heating and not soaking them, it affects the dates of germination.

1. In the well-haired soil prepared by the ranks.
2. After you make a well size about 30 cm, shed them.
3. In the hole, you put about 3 seeds in the hole (try to bulk them somewhere by 5-6 centimeters, and not all together, but in different parts of the well).
4. Between the rows leave the distance not less than 2 mBetween the plants themselves - about 1 m. Many gardeners plant pumpkins in a chess order so that the plants do not interfere with each other.
5. Plant landing should only be on the warm ridge, and before the appearance of germs can be covered with a film.
6. When a crust is formed on the surface, it is necessary.
7. When plants go up, leave in the hole no more than two. The rest are picked up not to injure the root system of other shoots.

Pumpkin planting seedlings

Most often, the rushing pumpkin is sowed.

• In the end of April In the prepared fertile soil mixture seeds seeds. It is advisable to immediately sow them in the container of about 0.5 liters. You can focus several times with mineral fertilizers, watering warm water.
• No earlier than 30 days After planting seeds, somewhere in late May, seedlings are planted in or under the film, also with a distance between the plants about 1 m.
• If at night there is a threat of frozen be sure to hide Film.
• In order to have time to get a good harvest in our latitudes, pumpkins should be formed. In a nutmeg pumpkin on one plant, it is advisable to leave 2 marksThe rest are picked up by 40-50 cm above the fetus itself. On how to do it, you will learn from the video:

Pumpkin care

The main care is in, and, especially during the growth of the fetus. However, you should not water until the ovary is less than a fist, otherwise they grow mostly leaves, and the fruit is gaining few useful substances. Also, it is necessary to stop watering when the pumpkin matured so that she passes and scored sugars in the pulp.

You can hardly hardly and need, but do not overdo it.

1. First feeding - before flowering, organic (infusion of cowboy) and phosphorus-potash fertilizers.
2. The second can be carried out during flowering, using wood ash on 10 liters of water.

Harvesting

1. Muscat pumpkins It is better to collect in September, keeping the fruit. With proper cleaning in dry sunny weather, pumpkin can lie around a year. Method of dosing the pumpkin is very popular, this is when the fruits lie warm, anything (like green tomatoes), they must be in a bright room, but that the straight sun rays are excluded.

2. Hard pumpkin Also removed in the fall, when the fruit and hardening the bark begins to die. It often happens that the varieties of a large-scale pumpkin do not have time to grow, this happens already when stored. After the cleaning of the Dumina, you need to hold another one with a week in heat so that the extra moisture evaporated, the pulp is more sugars.

Learn more about the timing of cleaning and the rules of storage of pumpkin harvest will be told publications and

Types and varieties of pumpkin

As mentioned above, it will be about three main types of pumpkin for our latitudes: common pumpkin (hard), pumpkin nutmeg and pumpkin Large-door.

Pumpkin ordinary

Refers to annual herbaceous plants. The fruit most often round shape, large, smooth, usually yellow, but these indicators may vary depending on the variety. Matures in September. Seeds are about 3-4 cm, white or yellowish color, with a dense skirt. Stored can all winter until spring.

TO table varieties This species can be attributed as follows:

• Pumpkin "Spaghetti". The raven variety, from the appearance of germs to full maturity, will be held about 2 months. The pulp of this pumpkin after boiling disintegrates on long fibers, thanks to which the grade and got its name. They can eat cold in a salad or hot, like spaghetti.

Pumpkin "Spaghetti". Photos from Nakhodka-Betta.ru

• "Bush orange". These varieties have a bright orange color, the weight of the fetus is about 5 kg. The flesh is sweet and soft. The variety is characterized by good fierce.

Pumpkin "Brush Orange"

• "Mushroom bush 189". Very popular early early grade. It grows in the form of a bush, on which about 2 Thavin is usually size 6-7 kg. The form of the pancreas in the form of a drop, at the base of the frozen there is a barely noticeable ribbill. When pumpkin reached full maturity, her painting bright orange with green splashes. The flesh is thick, very juicy and sweet, bright orange.

"Mushroom bush 189". Photo: Makeeva Nina, img-fotki.yandex.ru

• Pumpkin "Altai 47". Refers to the varieties of universal destination, early, from shoots to ripening somewhere two months. Orange and yellow fruits with light yellow or yellow-brown stripes. Schucker solid. Mass of the fetus from 2 to 5 kg. The flesh itself does not have a sweet pronounced taste, quite fibrous and medium sized. Lodge, transportation, endurance to low temperatures, as well as the yield is good.

"Altai 47". Photos from Dacnye-hitrosti.ru

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Muscat pumpkin

A nutmetic pumpkin is one of the most delicious, but extremely thermal-loving. Satisfied landed, has the properties of both hard screw and large-scale pumpkin. The form of Thavin is different, painting yellow or brown-colored fruits. The mass of them can also be different. On the peel longitudinal light spots. An orange or bright orange flesh of this species has its own special taste and smell, the consistency is dense, but gentle. Seeds small gray-white color with a dark rim along the edges. The root system is strong, the root of about 2 meters may be more. It has a subspecies - a chalmid pumpkin (the form of fruit of this subspecies in the form of a chalms).

• Pumpkin variety "Muscat".Lovely, long-linelet. Fruits from 4 to 6.5 kg Weight, with sweet, dense, juicy flesh of orange.

The grade pumpkin "Vita". Photos from AmericanFoodroots.com

• Pumpkin nutmeg pearl. LateVield grade with fruits of dark green color. The mass of fruits is about 7 kg. The pulp of deep orange color, very juicy.

Pumpkin nutmeg "Pearl". Photos from chasogorod.narod.ru

• Pumpkin Muscata "Vitamin". The variety is late, from shoots to full maturation will have to wait at least 130 days. Dark green schars with yellow stripes. The fruits themselves are small, about 7 kg. The pulp of bright orange. Suitable for dining and feed destinations.

Pumpkin nutmeg "vitamin". Photos from Sadogorodsad.ru

Large pumpkin

If we compare with previous views, the fruits of this type are the largest. Coloring fruits of large-scale pumpkins of white, gray or pink. On the cylindrical fruit there is a spherical shape of the fruit. The skin of the face is soft, flesh fibrous and loose. This species for many years was used as feed on farms. Large seeds of white or cream color with a barely noticeable rim.

• "Mushroom Winter". The variety is late, the shape of the Thaver chamber or a little flattened, the rose gray, the flesh is dense and juicy orange or gentle yellow. In winter, about 7 months can be stored. Very yield grade even in non-black-earth areas.

Giant pumpkin variety "Mushroom Winter". Photos from Samenural.ru

• "Volzhskaya gray". Mid-line variety, suitable for cultivation in central chernozem. Tsykina is flattened, the skin is smooth, light gray, a mass of about 10 kg and more. The flesh is quite dense, wide, egg-yellow color with orange, mild texture, has a pleasant sweet taste. The advantages of the variety in its heights and yields.

Pumpkin "Volzhskaya gray". Photos from Cadowod.ru

• Pumpkin seeds in folk medicine are dried, then oil makes oil. Pumpkin seeds are rich in glycosides and steroids, vitamin E, trace elements of potassium, copper, zinc, manganese, selenium, etc., vegetable squirrels and sugars.
• Pumpkin pulp contains peptide fibers, contributing to the normalization of the stomach work and the removal of slags from the intestine.
• It is recommended to use pumpkin people suffering overweight: a small-calorie vegetable; Vitamin T contained in the pumpkin contributes to the acceleration of the metabolism and the rapid absorption of food; The diuretic property of the pumpkin provides an excess of excess fluid from the body.
• When kidney diseases, Pumpkin is recommended as a diuretic.
• The pumpkin is rich in beta-carotene and lutein, which is beneficial affecting human vision.

Pumpkin can be immediately soiled into the soil, but you can plant across seedlings. It is best to grow on well-warmed solar plots. The preparation of the soil for planting pumpkin begins in the fall. After harvesting the predecessors of pumpkin, the soil is freed from weeds and from plant residues.

After the soil loose cut or hoe, after two or three weeks, they are drunk up to 25 - 30 cm on depth. During the rescue, it is thoroughly removed from the root of the dandelion, the cooker, dusty, the larvae of the May beetle and the wedge.

Fertilizers are entered into the soil simultaneously with its rescock. Due to the high rate of increase in overhead and underground organs, the pumpkin has an increased need for nutrient elements.

The best fertilizer for pumpkin - manure. It is more expedient to use the overwhelming compost, as in the fresh manure there are many weeds. On 1 square meter of the site, 5-10 kg of manure are made.

At a depth of 10-15 cm close organic fertilizers (on heavy soils) or 15-20 cm (on light soils). With a limited number of organic fertilizers, they can be made immediately before planting the culture directly in the well.

The day before the sowing of pumpkin, the soil is drunk, nitrogen fertilizers at the rate of 1 kV meter of a plot of 15-20 grams of fertilizer are introduced. After the rescue, the plot is aligned with robbles and proceed to landed seedlings or seeding seeds.

Squeeze pumpkin seeds

For planting pumpkin seeds, it is best to select full-fledged seeds that need to warm at a temperature of 60 degrees (2-3 hours). This is necessary for the friendly germination of shoots. To ensure early germination, to acquire the stability of a culture to adverse environmental conditions, seeds are placed on a day into a solution of one of the growth stimulants:

• cutacin solution - 100 ml of water boded one stimulator tablet;
• potassium humate solution - 200 ml of water is bred 4 ml of stimulator;
• epin solution - on 100 ml of water is bred 2-7 drops of the stimulator.

If you do not have these drugs, you can use wood ash pumpkin seed treatment: 2 tablespoons of ashes are taken on 1 liter of warm water, they insist one day, and the solution is periodically stirred, then the seeds placed in the gauze bag are performed periodically. After that, the seeds are washed with water.

You can soak seeds in warm water or in a weak solution of manganese.

After the seeds died, you can begin to evinted or to germination. To germinate the pumpkin seeds in the apartment, wrapping them for this in a wet fabric and placing in a saucer.

On the site you can germinate pumpkin seeds in a drawer with covered sawdust. On sawdust laying paper napkins (wet) at 23 layers, on them - pumpkin seeds, then again napkins, then warm sawdust and all cover with the film. The drawer is left in a warm place.

Time to seeding pumpkins

Depending on the biological peculiarities of the pumpkin variety, as well as from the climatic conditions of the region, there are various deadlines for sowing culture. The fallout of hard screw and large-scale pumpkin begins when the soil warmed up to 10 degrees (at a depth of 10-12 cm), and the air temperature is 15 degrees. In earlier time, sowing should be ensured by the plant heat from biofuels, as well as protection against freezing film.

When planting a hard screw and large-scale pumpkin with seeds into open ground, they must be close to the soil at a depth of 5-8 cm (on the pulmonary soils) or 4-5 cm (on heavy).

The seeds of long-line culture varieties are sown in a row (the distance between the wells should be about 1.5-2 meters, and between the rows - 1.4 - 2 meters).

Pumpkin bush varieties can land the square-nesting method according to the scheme: 80 * 80 cm or 1.2 * 1.2 m. The distance between the pumpkin seeds should be 3-4 cm. After the seeds decomposed on the wells, they should be powered by a mixture Pouring and soils in equal amounts.

Plant seedling pumpkins in open ground

The process of ripening pumpkin from the moment of sowing is quite long, especially this concerns late and thermal-loving varieties of culture. The process lasts 120-140 days. In order to get an earlier pumpkin harvest, you can grow it seedlings. For this, the window sills in the apartment are suitable, it is desirable that the windowsill are well illuminated.

Also, seedlings are grown in greenhouses, greenhouses or under a film frame. Severe seeds are best done in the last decade of April or in early May. It ensures that the plant will be ready to transplant into open ground.

As containers for seedlings, you can use bags from-under milk or peat hollow pots with a diameter of 10-15 cm. In the container, the finished peat soil is poured. Independent preparation of nutritional soil: take humid and turf in a 4: 1 ratio. In the bucket of the mixture, 4 grams of potash salt and ammonium nitrate are added, as well as 5 grams of superphosphate. After the mixture is moisturized and mixed thoroughly (preferably 3-4 times). Such a mixture is poured into the prepared containers and slightly condensed.

During the sowing, the soil is watered with warm water, they make a recess of 2-3 cm in the center, in which one pumpkin seed is placed. The process of preparing seeds is the same as when sowing directly into open ground. The pot on top is covered with a plastic film and put them on the windowsill for germination.

After sowing, the pumpkin should keep the air temperature within 18-25 degrees. As soon as the first shoots appeared, the film is removed and reduced the temperature by 3-5 degrees (this is done within 4-5 days). In the apartment it can be achieved thanks to the ventilating room. This ensures the protection of seedlings from pulling.

If the seedlings still stretched out, then it follows the eighth-tenth day after the appearance of germs to turn the rings the heating knee and lay out on the soil, covering their ground to seedy leaves. The field of this pumpkin seedlings is grown at day air temperature of 20-22 degrees, and at night 15-18 degrees. Watering pumpkins should not be abundant and frequent. Excess moisture can lead to the "felting" of culture.

Feed the plant should be twice. The first feeding is carried out on the eighth-tenth day after the appearance of germs. The cultivation of seedlings in the greenhouse will be better if we take a 1 liter of water with 100 ml of dung alive, chicken litter or cowboat and 5 grams of the garden mixture, mix and polide the area thoroughly.

The second feeding is made by any complex mineral fertilizers at the rate of 3-4 grams of fertilizer per 1 liter of water. It is necessary to do it immediately in front of the planting plants in the open ground.

A few days before the seedlings landing, it should be hardening. At the finished plants, the stalks are low and native with short interstices, and there are also 2-3 well-developed dark green leaves.

The seedling plant in the soil is carried out slightly deeper than she was sitting in a pot, sprinkling her before seeding leaves. This contributes to the formation of additional roots. Roots when planting crimp the soil, while, not allowing the formation of voids.

Seedlings planted in the ground are plenty. It is necessary for better contact of the plant with soil, to enhance water supply to leaves. The soil around plants sprinkle with mulching material or dry ground only after water is absorbed. Mulch protects the plant from the formation of an earthen crust.

In order for the formed fruits of pumpkins did not start from soil dampness, they should be protected from this as follows: 4 stones are put on the ground, on top of them - a wide plate or a board on which the pumpkin is placed. Do it only then, while she is still small.

With ripening of individual fruits, harvest is harvested. Immediately before the onset of frosts, the pumpkin fruits should be removed.

Pumpkin must necessarily be present in the diet of every person. Remember this! We hope that thanks to our advice, you will grow a large and sweet pumpkin, from which you prepare good dishes.

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Among the Bakhchy cultures there are real recordsmen, the yield of which is superior to the most bold expectations, often puzzling the gardener as a question, what to do with rich wealth. Make sure that pumpkin growing will help. Along with the high fertility of her bushes of gardeners attracts simplicity of care. But show everything that is capable of, numerous varieties of culture can only be compliance with the rules of agrotechnology.

Requirements for the site

Pumpkin Nekaprinnaya, but she loves heat and light and poorly transfers the overjoyment. Therefore, bedding with it is better to position on a dry and well-warmed by the sun, where the land is not cool even at night. The perfect option for pumpkin is landing on a compost pile. Here, its bushes will be warm and "satisfying", especially if you put superphosphate and wood ash in every well (in small quantities). For early and abundant fruiting light day, the plant is needed short - less than 12 hours.

Suitable for pumpkin sites, in which last season grew up a garden with the following cultures:

• onion;
• cabbage;
• carrots;
• beckless;
• soy
• beans;
• beans;
• pea;
• peanut;
• lentil.

On the cucumbers, cabins, patissons, sunflower and fringe cultures, the soil of the bushes will be less comfortable. At the same place, pumpkin can be planted only after 5 years.

The quality of the soil determines the magnitude and taste properties of the future harvest. Grow and fruit pumpkin is capable even in poor earth, but it will not work sweet and large in such conditions. To form vegetables an impressive size, its bushes will need a lot of nutrients. Properly plant plants in loose soil with a neutral reaction, well-fastened by fertilizers.

To the preparation of the site for pumpkins is embarked in autumn. A compost or manure (3-5 kg \u200b\u200bper 1 m²) contributes to it in front of the empty ground soil. If the land in the country is severe, ash is added (200-300 g). It is possible to replace it with lime, without changing the dosage of the substance. Also treated with acidic soil. Mandatory procedure - refueling the soil with phosphorus-potassium compositions. The deeper the soil to move, the better the pumpkin will develop in it.

In the spring, the plot is harrow. Make it early when snow is just getting out of it. It is important to comply with the recommended time frame, otherwise the Earth can dry. In the future, they carry light loosening of the soil, choosing from it the roots of weeds. Before placing seeds or pumpkin seedlings, it is rejected again, deepening by 12-18 cm.

If in the fall, the plot was not equipped, the nutritional compositions - humid (compost), superphosphate, wood ash - introduce when landing, adding them to each well and thoroughly mixing with soil.

Premodest treatment

So that the seeds of the pumpkin quickly and together gave shoots, before landing they are treated. This is especially important if they were collected for a long time. Such seeds correctly check for germination. To do this, you will need a solution of the cooking salt (at a concentration of 25-30%). Sowing the sowing material in it, watch him. High-quality heavy seeds, they will drown. Empty and unseen - will remain on the surface.

There are several effective ways of pre-sowing pumpkin seed preparation. The easiest - to soak them and leave for germination in a wet environment: sawdust, piece of fabric or moss, marla. They will need a little time for punishment - only 3 days. You can warm up or bubbling pumpkin seeds. To reduce the risk of plants damage by pests and diseases, the planting material is treated for 30 minutes in a strong solution of manganese.

Another option is to put pumpkin seeds into a nutrient solution made of ash or liquid fertilizer from a series of humate. You can use the preparation-stimulant growth. Then you need to germinate. Having wrapped the pumpkin seeds into a wet fabric, they are given 1-2 days in a room where the air is heated to 22-23˚C. Cocoon does not allow to rear, regularly sprinkling it with water.

Obtaining seedlings

Practice 2 methods of growing pumpkin:

1. through seedlings;
2. sowing seeds immediately on the bed.

Which one to choose, depends on the variety of culture and characteristics of the climate of the area. The reckless way to pumpkin is planting mainly in the south. In the middle strip and in the regions where summer is even shorter and cold (in the Leningrad region, in the Urals, in Siberia), when sowing the open ground, its fruits often do not have time to increase.

A special approach requires a grocery variety of pumpkin. If spring is cold and rainy, its seeds on the beds are drunk and not allowed. Through the seedlings, a nutmeg pumpkin, who loved the summer houses for their sweet taste and the impressive dimensions of the fruit are grown. Especially popular with their varieties pearl nutmess and muscat de Provence.

In separate containers: plastic cups, peat pots. They must be wide - 10-15 cm in diameter. The bottom of the container is poured a fertile mixture of three components:

• humus;
• ferrous land;
• peat.

Take them in proportion 2: 1: 1. The container is filled only by half. The processed pumpkin seed is put on top, sprinkling it with the same substrate, but a shedron solution of a cowber (5%) and supplemented wood ash (10-15 g). Well moisturizing soil, the container is covered with film. This landing pumpkin is held in April-May. The exact time is determined by the planned date of placing plants on the beds: seed seed in containers 20-25 days before it.

Care for seedlings and landing in the ground

For germination, pumpkin seeds need two conditions:

• a lot of light (excluding the straight rays of the sun);
• heat (air temperature in a room with a sediment should be within 25-27˚C).

When shoots appear, it is reduced to 15-20˚C during the daytime and up to 12-13˚C at night. Otherwise, the seedlings of pumpkins will stretch. But with this you can fight. When their age will be 7-10 days, the section of the stem, which is under seedlings, twisted into the ring, and the wet soil poured on top. If you do everything right, the seedman will be underground to the seedy leaves.

Pumpkin seedlings need moderate watering. To allow soil moistening in containers is impossible. Fit young pumpkins before disembarking on the bed twice. The nutritional composition is prepared on the basis of a cowboat, ammonium sulfate and phosphorus-potassium drugs.

By the time of the placement in the open soil, seedlings should issue at least 3 real sheets. Before planting a pumpkin on the beds, it is hardened for 5-10 days. By placing containers with plants on the balcony or veranda, open the window. First, the ventilation is made for short (1-1.5 hours), but every day it increases. At the end of the hardening, the window holds open constantly.

Seedlings plant along the same scheme as pumpkin seeds, but increase the depths of the well. The root plant of plants must be fully inserted into it and be 8-10 cm below the soil level. The lines in the hole is 1.5-2 liters of hot water, waiting until it is absorbed, and then pass the seedman, without breaking the soil coma. Empties fall asleep with soil and well condensed it. The surface of the bed is mounted. You can use even dry ground for this. Her task is to prevent the formation of soil crust and keep moisture.

Sowing a garden

Pumpkin planting to open ground will be possible when the earth warms up to 12-13˚C to a depth of 7-8 cm. This is usually happening in mid-May. Having done a wide (70 cm) groochka (70 cm), planned onto her wells. That's right, if they are at a distance of 1 m. Their diameter is made equal to 30 cm, and the width of the rod - 2 m.

It will be more convenient to care for landings if you place the wells in a chess order.

Abundant moisturizing each well hot (about 50˚C) with water and waiting for her complete absorption, lay out 2-3 pumpkin seeds, leaving more free space between them. The landing depth determines the structure of the soil. On medium loads, the pumpkin seeds fall asleep with a fertile substrate by 5-6 cm. If the ground is light, the thickness of its layer is increased to 8-10 cm.

After climbing the wells with a humus or peat, they are covered with film. To fix it, the land is poured around the edges. So the shootings of pumpkins will appear faster. Waiting for them will have about a week. When sprouts are shown from the soil, the shelter is removed.

At stage 2 of these leaves, the breakdown of seedlings, leaving a maximum of 2 of them, if the pumpkin is nutmeg or hard. Choosing for breeding in the site, large-scale varieties of culture (dawn, smile, sweetie) will have to be limited to one plant on the well. Hard the extra seedlings are not recommended - high risk is injured by the root system of surviving in bed. It is better to cut them down with soil. When preserving the threat of frosts, shoots are placed under the film, stretching it on a wire frame or arc.

Alternative cultivation

If the size of the site does not allow to highlight the plantation for spreader pumpkin weaves, this is not a reason to abandon growing culture. You can plant seedlings in barrel. For these purposes, old tanks are perfect without the bottom. In the new barrels you will need to make holes on the sides and from the bottom to avoid moisture stagnation. Pumpkin whirlpools under the severity of the crop can be injured about sharp edges and even break. Savings them from this ordinary rubber hose. It is cut in half and put on the edge of the barrels.

The walls of the tank outside are painted in a dark color. So they will heat up harder and do not rust. By installing a barrel on a sunny place, it is filled with biomass, creating a kind of warm bed. The bottom is put fine branches, paper, weeds with powerful roots, thick herbal stems - any organic, which overwhelms slowly. Top places what quickly turns into compost: leaves, grass, trees of vegetable crops. So the barrel for planting pumpkins is prepared in autumn.

If this is done in the spring, it is half a rewinding organoda from a compost pile, humid, derm or fresh grass in it. All this is carefully tamped. When the places in the barrel no longer remain, its contents are abundantly watered with water, and then a solution of a special preparation, which contains effective microorganisms. Within a month, they will lay out organic residues on nutrients, alleviating the pumpkin their assimilation. This explains the timing of the procedure - the end of April and the first numbers of May. While bacteria will work, the pumpkin seedlings will shoot up to the desired size.

Instead of barrel, you can use automotive tires by setting them on each other.

Basics of agrotechniki

Pumpkin seedlings needed on the beds need frequent watering. Perform it every day until they finally come down in a new place. After that, watering is reduced to a minimum. In the rainy summer you can do absolutely without it.

When the ovary in size becomes reminiscent of the fist, pumpkin bushes will need a lot of moisture again. Water planting during this period once a week, spending 1 bucket of water on the bush. Especially important is abundant moisture for pumpkin on hot days. Before harvesting, watering the landing stops. If you neglect this recommendation, the fruits will be worse. Their taste will suffer: they will become less sweet.

Pumpkin speaks well on soil loosenings. It is advisable to spend them after each moisture, at the same time removing weeds. Begin to loosen the soil from the moment of the appearance of germs, deepening in it under the bushes by 6-8 cm. The ground in the aisles are processed more intensively - by 12-18 cm. It is better to do it to moisturizing, then water will go to the roots of plants faster. When loosening, it is recommended a little bit of pumpkin bushes. This technique will make them more stable.

Feed the landing often - with a frequency of 1-1.5 weeks. The nutritional composition is prepared from a cow (1 l) and nitroposki (2 art. L). They are stirred in 10 liters of water. Under adult bush poured 1.5 buckets of the solution. The first feeding is proceeded when the seedlings will take place from the time of the premises of the seedlings. If the pumpkin seeds sat immediately into the ground, you need to count down from the date of procedure for 3 weeks. During this period, the plant is better to pour away with diluted with water 4 times with dung or chicken litter. Another fertilizer option is wood ash (1 glass of substance on 10 liters of water).

Before the first feeding around the pumpkin seedlings make a shallow (6-8 cm) grooves, retreating from plants 10-12 cm. In them and pour nutritious composition. In the future, the depth of the grooves increase by 4 cm, digging them at a distance of 40 cm from the bushes. Putting fertilizers, the grooves are sprinkled.

Formation of bush

The most important thing in the care of pumpkin is to correctly form a bush. When the length of its main stem will be 1.3-1.5 m, it will need to be discredited. From numerous lateral shoots, only 2 leave 2, removing extra. In length, they must reach 60-70 cm. In order for the pumpkin to ripen the large, the wounds are normalized: one for each escape.

Fruits will pour faster if you press the scourge to the ground. Do it with a small wooden rhotane or wire. Top on the escape pour the soil. The optimal thickness of its layer is 6-7 cm. Additional roots are formed under the earth on shoots. So that the greeted pumpkins do not get in the ground and did not hit the rot, the glass or a piece of plywood are under the fruit.

If the pumpkin is decorative, it will be needed to be religious. Quickly growled, they easily disguise on the site old buildings, pillars, sheds, fences, will take a gazebo or a sleeper by creating a secluded green corner. But the scourge of such plants are heavy, so the support is necessary for them to choose reliable. Organic compositions are more suitable for their feeding. Otherwise, the decorative variety of culture is grown in the same way as usual.

Pumpkin, landing and care for which they will require minimal skills from the dacket, is a very grateful plant. In terms of competent agricultural engineering, it is capable of feeding not one family with its delicious and healthy fruits. Despite the thermal lobility of culture, they grow almost everywhere. Even in the low-flowing pumpkin, the conditions of Siberia and the Leningrad region, her bushes will be able to bring a crop. It is only necessary to equip warm beds and prepare high-quality seedlings.

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Planting pumpkin seeds in open ground - from a seed to a large harvest

Pumpkin planting seeds in open ground is often practiced by gardeners, since this method requires less effort, and the result brings good. In order for the vegetable to grow well and well fruits, you need to know how to germinate seeds for planting, when to plant this melon culture along the lunar calendar. We will tell you how to fine seeds to grow rich harvest.

Preparation of pumpkin seeds for landing

Inexperienced gardens mistakenly believe that there are no effort to grow pumpkins - I threw the seed into the ground and wait for a great harvest. The birthplace of culture are warm edges, so the opinion on the unpretentiousness of this plant is erroneous, but its value for the human body is indisputable great.

Incorrect landing into open ground, inadequate care, not in time made by feeding will lead to small unsweetened fruits that will not be able to be stored for a long time. So that this does not happen, and the harvest pleased the gardener, it is necessary to determine the landing time, prepare seeds and beds, ensure proper care.

For landing it is necessary to select full, large, high-quality seeds, then omit them in a 5% saline and neatly stirred. Unusable will be those that do not fall on the bottom. Seeds that drown, rinse in running water and dry. In order for the plants to do not hurt, the seeds need to be disinfected. It is necessary to take a 1% solution of manganese, lower the material in it and hold about a third of the hour. Drained seeds rinse with running water.

preparation of pumpkin seeds for landing - in the photo

Dry pumpkin seeds can be disinfected by heating at +50 ° C ... 60ºС duration 5-6 hours. This procedure helps them wake up. If you dissolve the microelements and active substances and soak in them the sowing material for a day, then it will be a successful step towards a large harvest.

Wood ash contains macro and trace elements in large quantities. Effectively in its solution (20g ash for 1 liters) Soak seeds for 24 hours.

Before sowing a pumpkin on a bed, you can not forget about another important stage - hardening. The best effect gives a change of temperature. On the night of the seeds put in the refrigerator, on the day - in the room. So do, until they stick. Sundered they will go for a couple of weeks earlier.

Preparation of beds and landing pumpkin seeds in open ground

Sowing pumpkin seeds occurs from 15 to 25 May. If you plan before the named term, then the death of frosts is likely, if the fruits are not enough for the formation and aging. So the gardener has to break his head over the term. For this reason, it is better to work on the lunar calendar.

Pumpkin are not indifferent to organic fertilizers. In the garden, where it was decided to grow this plant, in the fall, it is necessary to scatter manure, ash, korovyan, compost. Hasive water nutrients will fall deep into the beds, and which will remain, they will deepen with spring resistance. Fans of mineral fertilizers can use a nitroposk in the calculation of 60 g of substance per 1 m².

Planting Pumpkin Seeds - In Photo

Within 6 days after the peopling of the garden, the soil contains moisture. Therefore, it is important that sowing was performed on time. Make the soil wet will help rain and special watering.

Sowing occurs as follows - a shallow hole is digging, 3 or 4 seeds are put on it. The distance between the pits should be about 0.5 meters. The pits of the first row are closed by the earth, digging out of the junoks of the neighboring. This increases the landing rate. It is good for the closure of the material to take a fertile land, and the plot is coated with a peat crumb or humus. If all these recommendations were observed, then after 7 days it would be possible to admire the first shoots.

If it is landing to produce with unpainted seeds, then shoots may appear only in a month. To accelerate the surveillance of sprouts, the garden is covered with a film that is removed when shoots appear. After the development on plants of two real leaves, thinning is carried out. There are 1-2 seedlings in the yam, the rest are cut to the earth. If the threat of frosts has not yet passed, the film or bypass material is attracted to the framework. Little to know how to properly plant the seeds of pumpkin on the bed, you need to learn how to competently care for the landings.

Further Pumpkin Landings Care

Pumpkin grows quickly and covered by side shoots that are subject to removal. On the plant left the main whip and two side. Each of them should develop 3-4 marks. The branches must be pinnit and rushed with wet earth, which increases their stability and makes it possible for the formation of additional roots. The plant gets more nutrition and becomes stronger.

pumpkin care - in the photo

Pumpkin needs irrigation, as the moisture evaporates its large leaves well. For watering, warm water is used - its number increases as it grows and by the end of the season it is brought to 10 liters. In the fall, the ripe moisture fruit does not require, watering stop. Pollination is most often produced by the garden itself.

Pumpkin is amazed by diseases and pests, and if we put everything on a sidier, then nothing will remain from the crop. You can, of course, deal with them with chemicals, there are many in stores, but then there is a possibility of entering these substances into the fruit, and you can make protection from close landings of Luke, dill and velvetsev. Swimming, weed cleaning will be deprived of the pests of the habitat. Nobody canceled the mechanical method of protection either.

Pumpkin is sick in a fertilized land, but with growth, it also requires liquid organic and mineral feeding. She will be well perceived by liquid diluted bird litter or a korlard. If the garden failed to feather the soil in the fall, he will have to feed it every week every week.

Pumpkin planting seeds in open soil involves great work, but the result will not make himself wait. Gardener in the fall will pleasantly surprise and make a big useful and delicious harvest. There will be a pumpkin porridge on his table with a long winter, pancakes, jam, juice and other delicious dishes.