Gourd Pumpkin

Pumpkin varieties exist quite a lot. Choosing which one to plant on your home plot, pay attention to a variety of pumpkin like lagenariya, it is also a hump, a bottle pumpkin, Indian cucumber or calabash.

Pumpkin is not only a delicious vegetable, but also very useful. It is a real storehouse of vitamins, carbohydrates and minerals. This plant is rich in cellulose, due to which it has a beneficial effect on the work of the intestine. The fruits of the throat have many other useful properties: they remove slags, prevent sclerosis and obesity, and even restrain the growth of tumors.

Only young, unripe fruits of lagenaria are edible. When they ripen, they form a strong shell, as a food completely unfit.

Interestingly, the fruits of this pumpkin is used not only for food. Feng shui talismans make mushrooms from the mug, and in the native land of this plant, in Africa, ripe fruits are used as vessels for food and water and even blanks for musical instruments.

Pumpkin gourd - growing

A small bowl refers to unpretentious pumpkin varieties. It can be grown on almost any soil, except wetlands and those where the water table is too high. Does not like this variety and strong winds, so lagenarii is usually planted along fences, houses or sheds. However, it does not require a separate bed, because this plant is well trimmings and can be used as a sealant with legumes or potatoes.

To get good large fruits pumpkin of this variety is recommended to fertilize with humus (before planting), mineral fertilizers (from autumn), and also during the season by bird droppings or ash .

The time and manner of planting the gout, as well as other types of pumpkin, depends on the region. If in the southern regions the seeds can be planted directly into the open ground at the end of May, then in the middle strip the pumpkin is usually grown through seedlings. When planting, each hole should be fertilized with the manure, then put a layer of nutrient soil, plant the seedlings and cover the fossa. This will not allow the soil to dry quickly and will save you from daily watering (you should know that the plant very fond of regular watering with warm water).

To grow a bottle pumpkin lagenarii can be both vertical and horizontal. In the first case, it is desirable to tie her long shoots to the support when they reach 1 m in length, and in the second the garter is not needed, but under the fruit of the pumpkin, sheets of plywood or slate will have to be piled to prevent spoilage. Interestingly, sometimes, to give the pumpkin a specific shape, it is placed inside a special wooden blank.

Also do not forget about such moments of care as loosening, hilling (in the phase of 6 leaves), pinching the top of the main stem and removing excess ovaries (usually leave 3-5 fruits).