When is the best time to plant watermelon and which variety is the best?

For those who love watermelon, you will find that watermelon has been sold at any time when you go to the supermarket or fruit stand. So many people don't know when watermelon was planted.

If it is better to plant watermelon, it is related to the suitable growth temperature of watermelon. Watermelon is a warm sunny crop, and the suitable temperature for watermelon growth is 24-30℃. Because watermelons have been planted in the open air at home for many years, let's talk about the time of planting watermelons in the open air.

It is very important to consider the influence of external temperature when planting watermelon in the open air. Watermelon crops are not cold-tolerant, and the lowest adaptive temperature is 10℃, and freezing injury will occur below 5℃.

Every year, in order to get watermelons listed as soon as possible and get more income, my family usually plants them as soon as possible. However, whether it can be earlier depends on whether the temperature rises quickly or not. In the first few years, watermelons were planted at home. In order to save costs, they are raised at home and then transplanted to the ground.

Generally, seeds are dried and germinated in early March. At that time, when the outside temperature was basically stable at 65438 02℃, the germinated watermelon seeds were put into a nutrition bowl and kept in a small arch shed for heat preservation. Note: In order to prevent colds in late spring, we should always pay attention to the weather changes and do a good job of thermal insulation in the small arch shed. At that time, homes were usually covered with dry straw or rotten cotton-padded clothes.

Transplanting from a small arch shed to a field requires that the outside temperature be stable at 65438 05℃. Generally, when Hubei reaches this temperature, it will be in the middle and late April. Of course, even if it is planted in the ground in late April, it must be covered with plastic film to keep warm. Watermelons grown in the open air here are usually listed in July and August.

Specifically, there is no specific time to say when to plant watermelons, because the temperature factor must be considered. In our Hubei province, it is generally suitable to settle in Datian in the middle and late April.