The watermelon planted this year weighs more than 200 kilograms at most. If it is grown in poor soil, it will be difficult to grow that big even if it is given more spiritual springs.
Building a shelf for watermelons is suitable for areas with a lot of rain. Also, building a shelf to plant watermelons is only suitable for small watermelons. For larger watermelons, it is better to let them lie in the ground.
Ye Mo grows early-maturing melons, which should be ready for market before May. During this period, the local area is dry and there is little rain, so it is actually okay not to build a shelf.
The main purpose of building a shelf is to facilitate management and to make the watermelon fruit shape more beautiful.
Watermelon racks can be chosen from triangular, herringbone, or fence racks.
Ye Mo chose a fence frame, which was more convenient.
Before building the fence, Ye Mo had to cultivate the soil first...
Driving an excavator, we made two pits horizontally with a spacing of 2 meters and vertically with a spacing of 8 meters...
The depth of the pit is 30 cm, and half a bag of organic fertilizer is poured into it.
The second uncle and the second aunt have nothing to do now. Their fruit trees have been pruned, so they came over to help Ye Mo get fertilizer.
In just two days, Ye Mo dug a hole worth more than a thousand dollars, and then gave the excavator to his father. He drove back to the village and continued to help his second uncle dig the fertilizer hole.
My uncle sent me a lot of water bamboo.
The watermelons irrigated in Lingquan will definitely have a high yield in the future.
The shelf you build must also be stronger. Use self-locking plastic ties to tie three water bamboos into one.
Ye Mo used the 'Luoyang shovel' to dig a deep hole in the ground, and then inserted the bundled bamboos into it to bundle... Fix the bundled bamboos in vertical rows about 1 meter away from the ground, and fix another row at a height of 1.4 meters, and then
Another row is fixed at a height of 1.8 meters...
Three rows high, these trunks are used to build melon vines and secure melons and fruits.
All using plastic strapping, which is convenient and saves a lot of time.
As for the horizontal row, it is between the two rows of watermelons...
The watermelon is planted in the spacious aisle of the durian garden. The aisle is 10 meters wide...
The shelf is 2 by 4 meters. But the distance between the watermelon plants is 2 meters by 8 meters. The shelf between the two rows of watermelons needs to be fixed with bamboo, otherwise if the wind blows, it will just be a single row of watermelon shelves.
It's easy to get blown over.
Ye Mo was setting up shop here alone, with only a dog accompanying him. It was quite boring, and the progress of the work was also very slow.
Just when I was about to call Chen Chen and ask him what he was doing, Chen Chen's car drove by.
When they arrived at Ye Mo, Chen Chen parked the car on the side of the road. Tang Xun jumped out of the passenger seat: "What are you doing? I called you and didn't answer the phone."
"The phone was left on the roadside outside. It was vibrating and I couldn't hear it." Ye Mo put down what he was doing, walked over, and handed them cigarettes: "Why are you here?"
"I heard from my second uncle that you are setting up a rack here alone, what are you doing?" Tang Xun took Ye Mo's cigarette and looked at the racks that Ye Mo had made.
The shelf was beautifully made and neat, and it was made of three bamboo poles tied together, which looked very strong. Tang Xun shook it a little, but it didn't move very much.
"Plant some watermelons, cantaloupes, and cantaloupes one at a time. Are you done with your work?" Ye Mo asked.
"Two days of rest." Tang Xun said, "I just finished pruning the branches of Chen Chen's orchard, and I am very tired."
"Have a rest, why don't you go fishing? You came here to work for me." Ye Mo said with a smile.
"We have done this many times in the Air Force." Chen Chen said, "If you don't go fishing, it's just the two of us. It's boring."
"Where are your dad and the others?"
"We are all tired. Let's rest at home when we have time."
Tang Xun looked at Ye Mo's stand and said, "Why do you plant watermelons and build a stand?"
"That's right, early watermelon... It's the dry season here, so there's no need to put on airs," Chen Chen also said.
"The purpose of setting up a shelf is to make high-quality melons." Ye Mo lit a cigarette and sat down: "Since I have nothing to do, I will set up a shelf and have a look. If I can cultivate high-quality small watermelons, I can also make a fortune."
I wanted to make the post-management easier, and after various considerations, I decided to set up a shelf.
It takes a lot of effort to put up this air. And Ye Mo is not as diligent as he seems. If he could cut corners and save effort, Ye Mo wouldn't bother to do it.
The main purpose of building the shelf is to facilitate management. At the same time, Ye Mo will use spiritual springs in different areas to see the impact of different spiritual springs on the growth of watermelons.
In addition to building shelves, Ye Mo also plants watermelons on the flat ground. Even if there are two carts of bamboo, there is not much of it in use.
"It seems that you are planning to do something big next year. How many acres of watermelon will you plant?" Tang Xun also lit a cigarette and asked.
"It depends on how many shelves you can build." Ye Mo said, "You can plant as many melons as you can build as many shelves as you can." It also depends on how much money you have.
Ye Mo provides more organic fertilizer.
According to his fertilizer amount, if he plants 10,000 plants, he will need 200 tons of organic fertilizer. The organic fertilizer costs 150,000 yuan.
40 kilograms of organic fertilizer was given around one seedling, which was a large amount of fertilizer. Of course, we didn’t actually use that much fertilizer because we couldn’t build such a structure.
Watermelons grown on flat land require less organic fertilizer.
As for the shelf, it’s not just planting for one season.
After the watermelons mature this season, dig another pit 4.5 meters away from the original pit and continue planting watermelons and reticulated melons. The extra fertilizer now will be used as soil.
The shelf built by Ye Mo is very strong. It does not mean that after using it in the first year, it cannot be used in the second year. Waiting for the next year, you can continue to grow melons on the shelf... Apply more fertilizer to maintain the soil.
You must know that watermelon is a fruit that is particularly able to absorb soil fertility.
The specific amount of planting depends on how much crayfish can be sold this month.
After taking a cigarette, Ye Mo stood up and said, "Help me build a shelf, and I'll treat you to crayfish tonight."
"I won't eat those crayfish you feed." Tang Xun also stood up.
Ye Mo gave him a look of disdain: "Bitch, you're just being pretentious."
What's wrong with feeding people with feed? Which end of the pork we usually eat is not fed with feed...
"Brother Xun doesn't eat crayfish, but I do." Chen Chen chuckled and said, "I'm not as particular as him."
"Can the shrimp seedlings you released in August be eaten now?" Tang Xun asked.
"In a few days, the crayfish in my pond will be sold." Ye Mo rolled his eyes.
"It's only been two months."
"It's been more than two months."
"The egg-bearing crayfish you released in August... September, October, November... it's really more than two months ago." Tang Xun just miscalculated and thought Ye Mo only had one of these shrimp seedlings.
Many months.
Since September, I first helped Ye Mo plant durians, and then after a few days of rest, I started picking fruits and busy with various things in the orchard. It feels like the days are like a year...
Crayfish hatch in late August or early September.
When he first started releasing shrimp seedlings, Ye Mo was thinking about selling lobsters in April or May next year.
I suddenly discovered that the crayfish in the reservoir seemed to be growing very fast. Then I started to calculate the weight gain of the crayfish...
The average weight of the crayfish in the reservoir is close to 6 yuan. The male lobster is big, weighing more than 7 yuan. The female lobster is small...
There are only 30 feeding points in the reservoir. The crayfish around the feeding points are larger than those elsewhere. The size difference is obvious.
After a while, the larger lobsters will be picked out and sold. The smaller lobsters will continue to be raised, waiting to breed next year.