rare in what the garden is not growing pumpkin.Behind it needs minimum care - watering, weeding and loosening infrequent.If you know when to shoot the pumpkin from the garden, as it is properly stored, it is quite beautiful zheltobokaya dolezhit until spring.
little about planting seedlings
In order to obtain early harvest this vegetable, the pumpkin plant seedlings.Seeds are placed in a separate container, do not dive because the pumpkin does not like the process of transplantation.Seeds begin to germinate in such a way that from the appearance of the rising before planting the plants in the open ground was not more than 25-30 days.If this period of increase, the seedlings will be extended, there will be squat and sturdy.From such a large plant the fruit do not get.Daily Seeds are soaked in water and then planted into pots with a diameter of 7-8 cm and a height of 6-7 cm.
When transplanting into the soil in the container in advance soil watered and put together with a lump of earth in the prepared hole.
period of vegetation and harvesting times
Talking about when to shoot the pumpkin from the garden, it is important to talk about the timing of its vegetation.Depending on whether it is grown for summer use or storage, extends from 90 to 136 days.Therefore, it is important to take into account when planting these figures.After all, if it is decided in the summer to feast on the fruits that do not yet have a solid crust callous, it is possible to plant seeds for 3 months before harvest.But when shooting a pumpkin from the garden to a vegetable for a long time kept?After 4.5 months after germination.
If seedlings seeds sown on April 25 and in the ground - about 25 May, the first fruits can be harvested in late July - early August.However, this crop is not stored for a long time.Pumpkin is better to consume food during the week.From her cook amazing amber soup, make salads, cereal, delicious pancakes.For storage of seedlings planted in the same terms of the pumpkin is removed in the middle - the end of September.It's okay to ripen, the crust when it becomes solid.That's when clean the pumpkin in the suburbs.
Harvesting
should be remembered that a pumpkin can not be subjected to autumn frosts.If the weather forecast is informed about the weather phenomenon, the crop should be removed immediately, or at least cover the bushes and fruit double layer of nonwoven and film.
Talking about what to take when the pumpkin, it is important to mention about the outward signs of the technical maturity of the fruit.In large-fruited pumpkin stalk must dry and harden.Muscat will tell you that it is ripe, the change in the pattern and color of its bark.
Cut off the pumpkin with a sharp knife.You can not break off or unscrew the fruit from the main bush.It is important to know that this may break off the stalk, and without it, the pumpkin will not be stored for a long time, as the place kind of wound penetrates the infection that will undoubtedly cause rotting of the fruit.
Storage
After gardener calculated when shooting a pumpkin from the garden, harvested, it is important to ensure appropriate vegetable storage conditions.He does not like changes in temperature, so it is better to immediately create the right conditions.At 3-10 degrees of heat and humidity of 70% of the fruit to be stored for a long time.
