Like vegetable vines which crawl in growing. We a sure that you are also a nature lover that's why you are here in our site. And here's how to plant squash step by step procedure.
That's the simple step on how to plant the squash but we are going to elaborate that for more and more. We are also a planter. We plant vegetables and we love it. It creates happiness and the joy will feel.
Growing squash is not that kind of sensitive to plant but here are some more great help in the end. This article will be long enough so have beside you a coffee or some drinks. I think you are interested to read this so stay and relax. Are you now have some foods to eat, or some drinks to drink. Ok lets continue.
How To Plant Squash
1. Get Quality Seeds- The first you need to do is to get quality squash seeds. That kind of seeds which will surely grow enough and will germinate. You can do this by buy some squash in the market and when you are going to cook that remove the seeds and use it in growing.
- When you get the seeds after that dry it under the sun. This will make the seeds to dry and it will become more solid. The seeds
- Seed box or what we called seed tray. This is a gardening tool in which the seeds are grown first on the box and after that transplanting will happen. What you need to do is let the squash seeds to germinate first and after that you will do transplanting after.
- To do that make seed box. Then put some soil inside. Make sure it have some nutrients that will help the seeds to grow well. After that put the squash seeds inside. Then cover it with some soil. Make it moist by watering it with water. After that put it on a place where the animals can not destroy it.
- When the squash seedlings grow enough. Enough with some leaves and the length of the vines are longer you can do transplanting. When it happen what you need to do is get your gardening tools like bolo or trowel. You will using that to transfer the plants.
- Make sure you will do it early in the morning or late in the afternoon as this time the sun does not shines so brightly and the plants will prevent to dry. Slowly and carefully remove the seedlings from the seed tray. After that go the designated place where you will grow squash until it bear some flowers and after that turn into a great fruit.
4. Water it Everyday
- Every plants, vegetables, or trees need water because water is the blood life of every plants. When no water the plants will not grow enough. No green leafy vegetables will appear and no healthy fruits will bear. You need to water it everyday so that the squash will attain that.
- Get some watering tools and water it. Get your sprinkler and put some water inside. That water will surely makes your vegetable more healthy. To do that get your sprinkler in your house or anywhere you put it. Then go to the place where water will be found. Then When you find it already put the sprinkler below.
- Make sure that the hole of the sprinkler is straight to the faucet. Start twisting the faucet head and then the water will start to flow. After that when you see that the water is going to full slightly twist it so that the water will become low.
5. Make a Vine Crawler
- This vegetable is a vine which it crawls. You need to make some vine crawler in order it will not crawl on the ground. Make this by making some wire tie to each other and some woods as it's poles.
- When the squash started to crawl you should be aware of that. That time means that you need to put the crawler it needs. When you put it the vines will grow upward and it will continues to grow it's length. The length of the vine is a little bit more long enough.
- Every plants need nutrients to grow. Aside from the foods from the sunlight of the sun and also water that it needs, it also needs fertilizer. There are two types of fertilizer, the organic fertilizer and the synthetic fertilizer. The organic fertilizer is a fertilizer which came from organic matters such as grass, leaves, trees, leftover foods and sometimes animal manure.
- While the synthetic fertilizer is being made by factories in which it have chemicals. What we recommend is use the organic ones. Squash will grow well when you use that. To do that make a hole. Hole which is deep enough. Then gather some leaves, grasses, left over foods, and some animal manure.
- What you need to do is put it inside the hole. Then cover it with some soil. In order to fully know the procedure you can search on the net on how to make organic fertilizer as they sill teach you step by step. After doing that, it will decay in some weeks or months. When you have the fertilizer then apply it on every squash plants you have.
Squash Care
Every plants needs care in order to grow it well. And they need protection coming from the destroyer like pest, insects, weeds, and animal. In terms of pest you should put some pesticides in order to avoid growing it their. Some worms may live on the leaves and they will start to eat all the leaves.When the leaves are poor because it have many damage, the squash will affect it's growth because the vegetable use it's leave to make food. As when the leaves are not healthy the plants will not get it's fully nutrients.
Insects also can damage your plants. Some bugs that roaming around can destroy the flowers of the squash. The flowers are the main reason why it have fruits. When the flowers are destroy by the insect, surely it will not grow the fruits or it will grow but not healthy ones. You should to avoid insect to be in your vegetables.
Weeds or grasses may have competition with your vegetables. As grass and plants also depend on the soil to get it's nutrient. When there are grasses growing on your garden surely it will affect your vegetable growth. Make sure you will not see grasses growing as you know what I mean will happen.
Remove grasses as much as possible and this will help to have a best fruit to make.
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The how to plant squash that help you some tips and procedure on how it goes. When you have squash growing in your garden. You will love it until you reach your harvest time.
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