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- Grow watermelon in the garden yourself
- The necessary conditions for cultivation
- Prefer watermelons on the windowsill
- Harvest ripe fruits at the right time
- Tips & Tricks
Grow watermelon in the garden yourself
Meanwhile, the watermelons imported from warmer countries in the supermarkets in this country have almost year-round season. You can harvest the low-calorie thirst quencher with some skill, but also from your own garden.
The necessary conditions for cultivation
Originally the tsamma melon comes as a wild form of watermelon from hot regions of Africa. Since the pulp of these melons tastes rather bitter, until today mainly their seeds are roasted in fat or ground to flour. The cultivated varieties of the watermelon also need a lot of light and warmth for their growth like the original form. So that you can reap ripe fruits in our latitudes, you must use the season in the field or in the greenhouse as far as possible from the beginning to the end.
Prefer watermelons on the windowsill
When picking and later planting watermelons you should consider a few things for a successful harvest:
Since young watermelons are very sensitive to pecking, they should be sown directly in seed pots or in decaying seed pots and planted with them as far as possible. In addition, the young plants may not be planted from the windowsill on sunny days unprotected in a full sun. Slowly accustom them to the intensity of sunlight by placing the pots in the garden for a few hours each for a few hours. Young melon plants are a delicacy for nudibranchs, which is why you should take protective measures such as chopped straw around the plants in case of heavy slug infestations.
Harvest ripe fruits at the right time
If you have brought the plants in time and planted in a sufficiently warm location, you recognize the full ripeness of the fruits that the plant parts of the watermelon in the fall before the first frost and turn to death. However, the degree of ripeness can also be recognized by the sound of the watermelons and the yellowing at their place of contact.
Tips & Tricks
Botanically, watermelons should actually not be considered as fruit, but as a vegetable, since all parts of the plant except the fruits die with the maturity date.
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