There are many dragon whiskers for sale in the market, and they are also loved by consumers. Dragon's whiskers can be stir-fried, can be cold mixed, and can also be used to stir-fry meat. But many people have a question, what is the dish of dragon's whiskers, and why has it not been available in previous years?
In fact, as a rural person, when I first saw the dragon whisker dish, I was also quite surprised, it turned out that this thing can also be eaten, the original this is called the dragon whisker dish?
Dragon whiskers are actually chayote melon seedlings, and in our case, they are also called "tu ear melon seedlings". In recent years, with its rich nutrition and delicious taste, it has gradually been served on people's tables. The main reason why it is loved by consumers is because chayote seedlings do not need to use any pesticides, and the fertilizer used is basically some farm manure, which is a real green pollution-free vegetable.
Chayote is a perennial vine plant that is planted once and picked over many years. Seedlings emerge around March each year, bear fruit from around May, and bear fruit until autumn. In our countryside, basically every household grows it. However, it is not planted to eat its seedlings, basically to pick chayote melon. Chayote produces exceptionally high, tastes good, and can be managed in an extremely extensive way. At the time of emergence, a chayote is poured with a bucket of farm manure, and it can be picked indefinitely until late autumn.
And now because chayote seedlings are loved by consumers, there is also a special dragon's whiskers planted. Unlike melon planting, seedling planting requires dense planting. Three or four melons can be planted on one acre of mountainous land, while seedlings can be planted with about 300 plants per acre.
How can we grow dragon's whiskers efficiently and productively? Seedlings like ours here are basically grown in the following way.
An acre of land basically needs to be watered with about 20 quintals of farm manure, and then the land is deeply ploughed, finely cultivated and built on ridges. The row spacing for planting dragon's whiskers is about 2 meters, and the plant spacing is about 1 meter.
Chayote melon has particularly strong fertility and climbing power, and its growth rate is also particularly fast. If field management cannot be carried out in time, the chayote seedlings will fall or cover each other after emergence. Therefore, when the chayote seedlings grow to about 40 cm high, they need to be framed in time to prevent the phenomenon of lodging.
When the chayote grows to about 1 meter high, it is necessary to pick the chayote seedlings in time to ensure the ventilation of the chayote melon field, which is also more conducive to the picking of chayote seedlings. Chayote melon is more fertile, so it is necessary to treat the side branches of chayote seedlings in time, usually a chayote melon can only retain three or four seedlings, to avoid clumps, affecting the growth of stems.
When you start picking chayote seedlings, just make sure that they are ventilated and light-proof, and the water and fertilizer are sufficient. Basically, it can be picked once every three days. Pick chayote seedlings only about 30 cm at the top.
Half a month of picking, that is, after five times of picking, it is necessary to supplement the water and fertilizer in time. The root of the chayote is replenished with farm manure, and a shallow ditch is taken out between the row spacing of the chayote to apply farm manure, and backfilled in time. The subsequent fertilization cycle is basically maintained once a month to ensure high yield and stable yield.
Chayote melon is basically not diseased. Diseases like our chayote seedlings are basically blight. If farmers encounter this situation, they should remove it in time and replant it in time. In the case of insect pests, there are basically only snails, and the control of snails here is basically the use of sumac bark soaked in water for disinfection to ensure the use of no pesticides.
The yield of dragon's whiskers is particularly high, and the yield of four or five thousand catties per mu is the norm. And the management is more extensive, basically from April to the end of October! For this "special" vegetable cultivation, are you optimistic about its prospects?