Some tips for growing watermelons

A watermelon plant grows best in hot and humid. plants need sunlight and good watermelon should be well watered. You can sow seeds or buy plants in a nursery. Some popular varieties include Charleston Gray watermelon, Triple Crown, Crimson Sweet, Sugar Baby and Black Diamond. Here are some tips to grow watermelons in your backyard.
When you want to develop watermelons, choose an area with good sunlight and protected from the wind. However, make sure there are plenty of air circulation in the room you have chosen. The next important step is to make the soil fertile by adding organic fertilizer and plowing well. A sandy, fertile clay soils that retain moisture, but it is well drained soil is best for growing watermelons. You prepare the soil by adding manure, compost and leaves and mix well with the soil by plowing. Water regularly patch to keep it moist. This is done either before sowing or transplanting seedlings of watermelon.
If you use seeds, soak them in compost tea for several minutes before sowing. Make a small watermelon patch in the hills. Plant some seeds in each hill, making a hole 1 inch deep. However, if you are a trans-plant the seedlings are removed polyethylene cover, which they were originally bred. Slowly put them 1-2 inches deep hole. Remember to leave space for the two facilities. Keep the watermelon patch clean. Once a week, add a slow release fertilizer. Size of the fruit depends on soil fertility. Once the plants sprayed with liquid fertilizer or seaweed. Reduce the use of nitrogen fertilizer once a watermelon plants begin to flower. However, potassium fertilizers, and until harvest time.
One way to keep the air and warm soil frost days to cover the watermelon patch to use a floating row cover. However, when the flowers begin to bloom, remove the cover line. watermelon plant is ready for harvest after 35-40 days, and planting. Here are some tips on whether watermelon is ripe to be corrected. If the curly tendrils near the watermelon has transformed Brown has a hint of fruit is ripe. Another suggestion is to change the bottom of the melon creamy light green, if it is ready for harvest. Again, the clue is a large watermelon. If it is ripe, he felt the thud and cable. When the melon is not heavy, but the sound you hear is heavy sour watermelon.