Super Orchard

Chapter 246 Planting Watermelons

Now that he decided to start a large-scale construction of orchards, Shen Yangguang didn't hesitate, and immediately called several department managers for a meeting.

In the meeting room, a simple presentation was played on the projector, on which was the distribution map of various fruits planned by Shen Yangguang, and Shen Yangguang was talking about his plan against the chart.

"To the south of the orange pomelo greenhouse, there is also a [-]-acre greenhouse, and on the west side of the carambola greenhouse, two super greenhouses are being built at the same time, but these greenhouses will not be completed until autumn, so our first task is the farmland orchard. Two parcels to the west."

"The northwest plot and the southwest plot have a total of [-] mu. I plan to plant five kinds of fruits, each with [-] mu. These five kinds of fruits are pears, peaches, plums, apricots and watermelon."

As soon as Shen Yangguang finished speaking, he saw Yang Xiaomi raising his hand to indicate that he had something to say, so he nodded.

Yang Xiaomi said directly: "It's May now, so it's okay to plant other fruits, but is it too late to plant watermelons? Generally, people start planting in April, and it happens to be on the market in July, so if you want to plant For these fruits, I suggest planting watermelons first, and it doesn’t matter if other fruit trees are a little later, anyway, it will take at least one or two years for them to bloom and bear fruit.”

It's really late to plant watermelons now, mainly because Shen Yangguang hadn't made up his mind when he didn't get the exact news from the real fresh fruit shop some time ago.

After Yang Xiaomi sat down, Shen Yangguang said: "I have already made arrangements for this. After the meeting is over, I will arrange for people to buy watermelon seedlings. Starting tomorrow, all employees will plant watermelons together!"

Watermelon is Shen Yangguang's favorite fruit, but this kind of fruit is too common, and the market price is too low, it is difficult to make a high profit from it, so Shen Yangguang has not planted it for a long time, but is all in Plant some fruits with a slightly higher market price.

After the fruit with a high market price is strengthened into a super fruit by the golden air flow, the price can be increased by five to ten times, and the profit will be very considerable. On the contrary, even if the fruit with a low market price is increased by five to ten times, the profit Money is still not too much.

Now the orchard has an additional [-] mu of land, which can be planted on a large scale, so the option of watermelon was quickly determined by Shen Yangguang.

Watermelon also has many other names, such as summer melon, cold melon, etc. In addition, there is a very poetic another name called Qingmen Lvyufang!
Different from all the fruits in the orchard now, watermelon is an annual vine plant. Generally speaking, the branches and leaves of watermelon grow on the ground like vines, and they are planted every spring. After summer, the vines will die. If you want to continue to harvest watermelons in the second year, you have to plant them again.

Now there are more than 300 people in the orchard in the internal and external management department alone. Planting watermelons once a year is completely easy and can be done quickly. Besides, although watermelons need to be planted once a year, there are also more management methods than perennial fruit trees. The easy part is that there is no need to pruning branches and leaves.

So, overall, growing an annual like watermelon is about the same amount of work as growing any other perennial.

As one of the most representative summer fruits, watermelon is a kind of fruit that almost everyone has eaten. The flesh is sweet and contains a lot of juice. It is not only delicious, but also can cool down the heat.

The history of watermelon is also very long, but it is not a native fruit of our country. Its origin has been unknown. It may have come from the African continent and was introduced to our country during the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.

Because the watermelon fruit is huge, the taste is very good, and it just happens to cool down in the hot summer, especially the iced watermelon, who knows who eats it, it is not too refreshing to eat a piece in the hot summer, so it is very popular among consumers.

Demand will drive supply. At the same time, watermelons do not have high requirements for the environment. Nowadays, watermelons are grown in most parts of our country.

In addition to the delicious flesh of watermelon, the seeds and peel of watermelon have high edible value.

The seeds of watermelon contain oil and are suitable in size. They can be fried as a pastime food. Shen Yangguang also ate homemade watermelon seeds when he was a child. The taste is very good, and the taste is not much worse than sunflower seeds.

Watermelon rind is even more useful. It can be used as medicine. It has the effect of clearing away heat, diuresis and lowering blood pressure.

Watermelon also likes a warm and dry climate, and is not cold-resistant. The temperature required for growth and development must be [-] to [-] degrees. This temperature has almost caught up with tropical fruits in greenhouses.

However, watermelons do not need a greenhouse, because in Jinquan Village, watermelons are only planted in April and May, and the market for watermelons has already ceased in August and September. It is the hottest time of the year in Jinquan Village, and the temperature can fully meet the needs of watermelons.

At the same time, because watermelon is an annual plant and does not need to survive the winter, there is no need to worry about the watermelon being frozen to death. You must know that the watermelon will die naturally before the arrival of autumn.

Like most fruits, watermelon needs a large temperature difference between day and night during the growth and development process. The greater the temperature difference, the better the watermelon tastes. Jinquan Village happens to be able to meet this. During the day, Jinquan Village is as hot as the south. But at night, it is much cooler here than in the south.

In addition, watermelon is relatively cold-resistant, but not resistant to humidity. When the humidity is too high, it will not only make the watermelon susceptible to disease, but also reduce the yield and quality. Jinquan Village also meets this requirement, and the humidity is not high.

After the meeting, Shen Yangguang immediately arranged for people to go to the county to buy watermelon seedlings. Although it is May, there are still watermelon seedlings for sale in the market, but it is much less than last month.

Compared with other fruit tree seedlings, which cost dozens of yuan a plant, watermelon seedlings are much cheaper. On average, one can be bought for more than [-] cents. The reason why the price is so low is that the cultivation of watermelon seedlings is relatively simple, starting from next year , Shen Yangguang can completely cultivate watermelon seedlings by himself.

The next day, hundreds of employees from Jinquan Orchard gathered in the southwestern plot to start planting watermelons. This was originally a rice field in the village. After the spring of this year, Niu Neng and the logistics department drove a large tractor. After plowing, watermelon seedlings can be planted directly.

After the meeting yesterday, the entire logistics department went into battle together, driving tractors bought in the orchard to start plowing simple ridges on this land, because the ridges are not required to be neat, but fast Niu Neng and others drove out the thousand mu of land overnight.

Planting watermelons is also different from planting other fruit trees. You don’t need to dig a large hole for planting. You only need to dig a small ditch. Strawberries are very similar.

Because watermelons grow prostrate on the ground and have to be replanted every year, they are not suitable for drip irrigation. Shen Yangguang contacted the drip irrigation system manufacturer and asked them to quickly install the sprinkler irrigation system.

(End of this chapter)