In addition to her busy work, every weekend, Ms. Ngoc Anh works peacefully in the garden and grows melons to have a source of clean food for her family.
The terrace is spacious, bright, and sunny enough for Anh Ngoc to arrange to grow clean vegetables. Most of the area is prioritized by her to grow all kinds of melons.
Ms. Ngoc Anh shared: “Saigon’s weather is quite suitable for growing melons. This is also a fruit that everyone in my family loves to enjoy, so I grow a lot of varieties.
I grow Japanese melons, Kim Long melons, Japanese spotted pears, Huynh Long melons, De Dat Mat melons, watermelons, cucumbers…”
Loving growing melons on the terrace, Ms. Ngoc Anh has arranged the space for planting.
She learned how to choose seeds, incubated them according to the ratio of 2 boiling 3 cold for about 4 hours. Then she took out the seeds to drain, put them in a damp towel in an airtight container, and put them in a cool place. Seeds will germinate and incubate in fibrous pellets or potting soil. When the seedlings have 2 true leaves, I will plant them in pots with pre-mixed soil.
When at the stage of 3 – 4 true leaves, she often sprays to prevent hemorrhoids and red spiders. Irrigate fish protein once a week, soak bat manure once a week, and at the same time pay attention to cut all branches from the root to the 9th leaf, keep the branches from the 10th leaf or more.
When the tree has 9 leaves, she adds potassium, banana juice, egg-milk fertilizer. The tree has 10 leaves, which she sprayed to prevent thrips and worms. At the same time, she conducts pollen on branches from 10 to 15 to get the best quality melons.
Because of her love and passion, Ms. Ngoc Anh learned step by step, from selecting varieties, incubating seeds to working the soil, arranging the watering system, etc. All of which she learned during the cultivation process. Thanks to that, at present, the overhead garden has helped her to be more active in cultivating and taking care of melons.
From the first days when she accidentally read an article about a green terrace garden full of vegetables and fruits, Ms. Ngoc Anh has planned and found suitable ideas, turning the terrace into a garden that everyone who watches will admire and praise.
After pollination 3-5 days, she proceeds to select the fruit, choose the large, round, beautiful ones to keep, and discard the remaining ones. Each tree should only leave 1-2 fruits depending on the variety. She cut off the top of the branch with fruit, leaving only 2 leaves on the branch.
In the period from 5 to 20 days after pollination, the fruit will grow quickly, so increase the amount of fertilizer (fish protein, bat droppings, bananas, milk eggs) every 3 days. She added 1 to 200 grams of Dynamic fertilizer for each plant, enhanced calcium by watering with clear lime.
When the tree has 25-30 leaves, cut off the top so that the tree can focus on growing fruit. When the fruit is 20 days after pollination, reduce the amount of fish protein, increase the amount of banana fertilizer, seaweed, and spray micro-organisms to create sweetness.
Anh noted, you should check melons regularly because melons are prone to fungus and stop spraying 10 days before harvest, cut off water 3-5 days before harvest.
Ngoc Anh’s journey as a farmer also encountered many difficulties, from the stage of carrying the soil to the 4th-floor terrace, mixing the soil, making a trellis… to taking care of the garden. She has no experience in farming, so vegetables and fruits are stunted, pests, and loss of income.
She seriously learned how to plant, care, prevent diseases and learn from everyone’s experience in taking care of plants and her efforts gradually paid off. Her garden is more and more lush, full of fruit and branches. This is also the result, the motivation for her to love going to the garden, taking care of the trees, relaxing, and balancing the mood.
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Results from days of care with many useful experiences.
According to Ms. Ngoc Anh’s experience, in order to have a good and fresh melon garden, it is necessary to pay attention to the selection of seeds. She often chooses to buy F1 seeds from reputable and quality sites. In addition, the soil needs to be free of pathogens and full of nutrients.
After each crop, she dried the soil with agricultural lime to clean the soil from pathogens. She often focuses on preparing melon growing medium including: 50% soil, 30% organic fertilizer (cow, country worm, Japanese dyamic…), 20% coir, rice husk ash, trichoderma and incubating the soil from 7 to 7 days. 10 days.
Ngoc Anh added that she often composts organic fertilizers herself to periodically fertilize plants such as fish protein, milk eggs, bananas, and fresh beans. Regarding disease prevention, she often watered Trichoderma weekly to prevent fungal diseases, sprayed with microorganisms such as neem oil, emanip …
Vines on the terrace.
In these days of social distancing, Ms. Ngoc Anh feels that having green space is a wonderful and extremely valuable thing. She loves going to the terrace with her family early in the morning, breathing in the fresh air. Moreover, the cool melons, the baskets of vegetables harvested on the terrace help everyone in her family to be more healthy in preventing the epidemic. Follow Nhịp sống Việt