How to Grow Watermelon
If you have space in your back yard for a vegetable garden, why not add a nice watermelon? Not everyone knows that there are different varieties and those most suitable, it will be possible to grow watermelons in your garden.
If you have enough space also bought the seeds for the varieties that we usually see at the supermarket, watermelons exceeding 20 kg! But if your garden is small, then the seeds are most suitable for baby watermelons.
It is not a joke! These are qualities that lead a round or oval fruit but not exceeding 8 kg! The varieties that belong to this category are related to the type and Crimson Sugar Baby. Both types of watermelon, bring thin rind and a lighter green. The quality Crimson has a weight that ranges from 4 to 6 kg while Sugar Baby pushes up to 8 kg.
Once you have retrieved the seeds germinate and have them planted in the ground. Alternatively, you can directly buy small plants. Here’s what you need to know to grow watermelon.
Where the watermelon grows. Watermelon is a species that loves the sun but can be grown in every region of Italy, the North only in the summer in other areas is fine late spring. Ideally, place the plant in an area that is exposed 14 hours a day in the light and where the temperature does not drop below 14 ° even if the full vegetative activity is between 25 and 30 °.
How to grow watermelon. Once you have chosen the perfect location, you will need to prepare a potting soil. The pickiest, in the autumn months (October-November), will provide a 25-30 cm deep digging. This operation is used to bury the weeds and crop residues of the previous growing season will also allow the aeration of the soil and the penetration depth of stormwater winter.
The rainfall that will follow your operation digging, make fertile soil, perfect for planting watermelon plants in late spring. And understandably, not everyone wants to dig in November for planting in the spring and harvest in the summer.
So if you do not want to follow the ideal process, carried out the task of digging a few weeks before sowing or planting your plant watermelon, if there is no rain, you watered the soil and do not forget to fertilize the soil with the mature compost.
At the time of sowing, do it to fertilize the soil with fertilizer mineral-based. The sowing is carried out when the soil temperature reaches at least 15 °. Cultivate the watermelon in the garden, rather than commitment requires patience. The expectation from the digging and sowing from seed to plant growth and finally in the summer you can pick up beautiful watermelons in your garden.
