There are still half a pack of seeds left in the melon planted last year, and seedlings will soon grow after planting this year. Its palm-sized blades have fine fuzz that are soft to the touch.
When it grows to a certain height, we put a shelf on it. The melon wrapped its tendrils around the bamboo pole and climbed hard, and when it reached the middle of the pole, it stopped for a short rest, and then bloomed a lot of small white flowers. These white flowers are all male flowers, and they rush to the front as an advance force to inquire about the situation, and when the time comes, some female flowers appear.
How to distinguish between female and male flowers? The female flowers have a small section of melon behind them, while the male flowers do not.
To tell the truth, the melon is the laziest, others do not have to bother with the melon and the result. But this product, if you don't artificially pollinate it, it will be confused by the white flowers in one go, you, don't want to eat a melon.
The melon generally blooms in the evening, so it is necessary to pay attention to this time. As soon as its white petals open, it is necessary to quickly pluck the male flower, remove its petals, and gently touch the bare stamens to the pistil in the center of the female flower to complete pollination. The flowering of the melon is only a few hours, and it is impossible to manually pollinate if the opportunity is missed.
Once the pollination is successful, it can be clearly seen the next day that it has expanded a lot. After that, it will continue to expand every day, and in just one week, it will grow into a fat man.
At this time, it can also be picked, but its melon body still has fluff, which indicates that it is still a small fresh meat; after a long time, when the surface of the melon is no fluffy and smooth, it is fully mature.
Not good! Just as the melon was growing, it was scarred by insect bites. How to deal with these hateful guys? Hmmm, I bought back a big packet of armyworm boards from the Internet. These armyworm plates are bifacial, while yellow is insect-attracting. Within a few days of hanging up, it was covered with all kinds of flying insects. There are butterflies, ladybugs, flies, mosquitoes, needle bees and so on.
Among these flying insects, the needle bee is the most harmful. Why? Needle bees look a lot like bees, but bees are chubby little cute, and needle bees are much thinner. This guy doesn't do good things, and specializes in stealing chickens and dogs and harming others for a living.
Netizens who have grown vegetables, I don't know if you found it, sometimes the crops such as Lai grapes and loofahs grown by themselves look very good, but cut open to see: Mom, Lai grapes are full of live maggots with twisted bodies! Loofahs are also rotten inside. Are they maggots that fly in? This is to blame the flies. All these bad things are done by needle bees!
Needle bees are also called melon fruit flies, this guy takes advantage of the late flowering or young fruit stage to lay eggs inside, and when the melon fruit grows, the little bad eggs inside also absorb nutrients to grow up. Look for which of the sticky worms are needle bees.
This is the first batch of melons that knotted under the protection of the armyworm plate.
After an interval, the second batch of melons ripened again.
The third batch consisted of a pair of humble twins.
At the same time, bitter melons were also planted. A bitter melon is always a cool sight in the hot summer.
Bitter melons are very productive, hanging a few here, hanging a bunch there, and hiding several small dolls hiding in them.
In these bitter melons, a grape was specially planted to relieve the hunger.
Both melon and bitter melon are highly productive, and their growth period is also very long, spanning from summer to autumn. Now is the time of vegetable shortage, go around the field, except for the loofah is showing its skills, the rest is only some old leeks.
Soon it will be time to enter autumn sowing again. I always thought that the summer would be very long, but the time was so fast that I slipped through the cracks of my fingers without paying attention. The shade of the tree learned that the call was now very tired, and the autumn insects did not know when they had appeared and began to chant. A wave of sadness came to mind unconsciously.