Square watermelons Japanese invented forty years ago.More precisely, not square and cube.No, they did not receive for their discovery of the Nobel Prize for biology.And genetic engineering with the selection here at anything.Dodger guessed growing watermelon have a transparent container to grow up, it took the shape of the fruit.So it is possible not only to grow square watermelons, but also cylindrical zucchini and eggplant in the shape of a tetrahedron, if the need arises.What was the need for growing watermelons unusual shape?Blame - the high cost of retail space in the Japanese city.How are these two things?It's very simple.
Overcrowding Japanese megacities has led not only to the high cost of housing, but also of any premises - industrial, office, retail.Shopkeepers selling vegetables and fruit, were forced to pay high rents, and in such circumstances shops have a small area to be affordable for affluent tenants.And in a small area and do not place a lot of goods, and watermelons normal, round shape, tend to occupy large amounts of space precisely because of its non-compact configuration.The importation of watermelon every day - not cheap: the fruit is large, its cost is low.So we decided to Japanese farmers to provide a service to traders fruit.We took and figured out how to grow watermelons such a form that they are easily stockpiled, occupied a smaller place, but still not rolling on the counter.
practicality and foresight Japanese melon growers have come to the point that they were growing square watermelons such an extent that they fit easily on the shelves of Japanese refrigerators!New once relished (and shape) of domestic Japanese consumers.Although the cost of growing them were slightly higher (due to the need to put in the transparent box), and store price higher than the price of conventional products in three or four times, square watermelons quickly gained popularity among the population.Many farmers from other countries began to adopt "best practices" and the Japanese, too, have started to grow watermelon curly.
Farmer, first coined to grow non-standard fruits, guessed right to patent his invention, and for many years the fruits (both literally and figuratively) of its ingenuity used by many.However, in the end, he still took out a patent, but how much money he lost in the last decade!
Fudge Japanese farmer has generated a lot of imitations.Who can be ordered through the online store any vegetable any form.It is said that the cultivation of vegetables in a clear plastic container well by the fact that the plastic protects the fetus from parasites.However, Russia's growing such exotic not too important.We were not up to the square to plant, grow to conventional watermelons in the middle lane!
But, apparently, the square watermelon, whose photos adorn many exhibitions and pages of Internet portals, is a success in Japan, and next to her country.In other places, where the size of retail space in the vegetable shops all right, decided to sell the "old way."Besides, said palatability square watermelon still lower than round.
