1 kind of "Guan Guo" potted plant, known as "dish melon", can be eaten and rewarded, beautiful and delicious and nutritious
Everyone raises a lot of flowers on the balcony, and the fruit-viewing potted plants should also be indispensable, but have you ever raised this kind of plant that is called "saucer melon" and "flying saucer pumpkin"?
Saucer melon
Saucer melon is a kind of saucer-shaped melon, flat round zucchini melon, which looks like a flying saucer in the movie, hence the name. This melon plant is short, the fruit is peculiar, suitable for potting, mainly for indoor ornamental use, mainly for fruit viewing, but it is also a variant of a gourd family of pumpkins, temporarily called small pumpkin bar, of course, it is also edible.
If you have not seen this kind of dish melon before, it is also very normal, because this plant has a short cultivation history in China, and there are not many people seen in the market, many of which are bought online and planted in pots.
The fruit color of the dish melon is mainly yellow, white and green, of which yellow is the most vivid and beautiful, especially when it is ripe, the fruit is golden throughout, with green vine stems and large leaves, potted up very beautiful and ornamental, not losing the general fruit viewing pot.
Disc melon not only has a high ornamental value, edible value also has, people generally eat its young fruit (the fruit is old only ornamental), followed by its fresh flowers and petioles, seeds, etc. can be edible, and the general pumpkin like stir-frying, soup can be, which contains a variety of vitamins and carotene, as well as a variety of mineral elements.
This melon has a light taste, rich in nutrition, suitable for stir-frying and filling, although the taste is similar to the zucchini we usually eat, but the appearance is indeed better.
Disc melon is mainly seed sown and propagated, sexually prefer warm, humid and sunny environment, potted plants can be sown all year round, seeds as long as the surrounding temperature above 10 °C can germinate, the soil to loose fertile and breathable slightly acidic sandy soil is appropriate.
This plant likes to be wet, and because of the large leaves, water evaporates quickly, so it has a lot of demand for water, is not drought tolerant, and usually keeps the soil slightly moist when managing, as long as it is not too wet.
If the light at home is not particularly good, do not worry too much, it can tolerate a certain degree of weak light, as long as the light is not particularly bad, it has little impact on its results.
Potted disc melons, generally dwarf seeds, will not grow too long, after flowering and fruiting ornamental just right, if the stem grows too long, you have to tie it to the vine. If the family wants to grow some vegetables and raise some flowers, why not plant a few pots of melons, you can eat and reward it!