In the spring sowing and spring planting season, the hanging winter melon planting base in Ziba Village, Qingxichang Town, Quxian County is a busy scene, and the villagers are busy planting seedlings, covering film, and planting the hope of a bumper harvest.
Walking into the more than 70 acres of hanging winter melon planting land in Ziba Village, Qingxichang Town, the workers are busy transplanting the hanging winter melon seedlings, and covering the winter melon seedlings that have just been transplanted a few days ago with a white film, and adding a black film at the empty row.
Three points, seven points. In order to make the winter melon more ventilated and light, and avoid the phenomenon of "white belly", melon farmers use bamboo or steel strips to hang the winter melon from the ground, hence the name "hanging winter melon".
Yang Lamin, the owner of hanging winter melon planting in Ziba Village, Qingxichang Town, Qu County: Our hanging winter melon, the black film plays the role of moisturizing and weeding, and the white film plays the role of heat preservation and moisturizing.
Revitalize abandoned land and develop hanging winter melon. This year is the fourth year of planting winter melons in Ziba Village, with a planting area of more than 70 acres. During the planting period of hanging winter melon, field management such as seedling, erection, and weeding requires a lot of labor, which provides nearby villagers with jobs to increase income.
In accordance with the idea of one village, one project, and party building to revitalize the village, Qingxichang Town guided the owners to use abandoned land to interplant "short, flat and fast" hanging winter melons in Ziba Village. It is understood that according to the traditional planting of winter melon, one acre of land can be planted about 400 plants, and planting hanging winter melon, each mu can be planted more than 700 plants, the yield per mu is about 20,000 catties, and the income per mu can increase by more than 2,000 yuan.