Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Shi Wen
Who invented the term "Chinese squat"? This is the position I keep farming for the longest time.
As an ancient country with a long history of farming, I think "Chinese squatting" is probably the most common posture maintained by ancestors.
Fortunately, the degree of modern agricultural facilities is getting higher and higher, and the watermelons, melons, cucumbers, pumpkins, and gourds that originally crawled all over the ground can be cultivated in three dimensions, which also greatly reduces the time for Chinese farmers to squat.
I haven't been to the smart greenhouse of the Yangdu base of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences for a long time, and I don't know what my melon vegetables have grown?
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Both the watermelon and the melon are in bloom and climb higher than me!
The cucumber grows the most vigorously, and the cucumber is as thick as a mallet, and it is about to burst itself.
The management of melon vegetables, I almost did not know anything, there was no way to start a difficult time, the "big savior" appeared.
In the video, the uncle who has been teaching and thinking all the way is called Song Quan. In previous years, I only met him in the peach fields in the summer. In fact, before being transferred to the peaches grown in horticulture, Song Quan worked in the vegetable institute, doing soilless cultivation and taking care of the melons, fruits and vegetables in the smart greenhouse.
Hearing that I was farming in the greenhouse, Teacher Song smiled and said: "Vegetables can be laborious, and I have to plant two seasons a year, unlike my peaches, which only need to be busy for one season a year." ”
Recently, the peach field is bagging, not much work, Teacher Song ran to the smart greenhouse to build a handle. "This cucumber must be picked diligently, you don't pick the bottom, the melons on the top are yellow."
Before, I always felt that my cucumber grew slower than Dr. Zhang Chenghao's cucumber next to me. The administrator tip told me that last week, Zhang Bolai had picked cucumbers in the field, and my melons had not grown well because no one had picked them.
"You don't pick cucumbers, one is that the melons on the top are not firm, and the other is that the plants are not growing high, which affects the yield." Teacher Song said this, even the aunt who worked in the greenhouse was anxious and quickly helped me pick melons together.
After saving the cucumbers, the four or five melons I picked were too old, and I chewed them, full of hard melon seeds.
Cucumbers can make up for it because its natural pollination rate and fruit hanging rate are still quite high, and watermelons and melons that are also planted in greenhouses are different.
Watermelon flowers
Teacher Song moved to the vegetable field, walked into the opposite melon field, and couldn't help but start to "count" me again: "Have you ever flowered watermelon?" This female flower is thankful, you are in the greenhouse, the watermelon has no insect pollination, you have to pollinate artificially to set fruit. ”
I approached the melon vines and looked closely, and each vine had one or two watermelons the size of peanuts hanging from them.
I was a little puzzled: "What is the right flower?" Isn't this watermelon already fruiting, and it needs to be artificially pollinated? ”
Teacher Song, who was a little speechless, picked a small yellow flower from the melon vine, silently broke off the petals, and touched the small watermelon on top of the flower, which is artificial pollination.
"What I have in my hand is the male flower, the melon is the female flower, the female flower blooms for only a day or two, you must seize the opportunity to do the artificial pollination, otherwise the small watermelon will immediately turn yellow, then you will not receive the melon."
Watermelons will bear melons in the position of more than 11 leaves, and the three-dimensional cultivation of watermelons only leaves one main vine, and each vine only bears one melon, while the side vines are manually beaten off.
The work of beating side vines is still too late to do, I checked again, watermelon female flowers basically withered, I planted melons for the first time in my life, artificial pollination has been perfectly missed.
As for whether you can still eat the "hour watermelon" I planted this summer, it will be lucky.
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