Introduction to Cucurbits: Growing Vine Vegetables Easily in Your Garden
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Cucumbers
Soil Requirements
Planting Cucumbers
Planting in “Hills”
Harvesting
Pumpkin
Pumpkins Sowing
Harvesting
Pumpkin Curing and Storage
Watermelons
Soil Requirements and Climate
Watermelon Planting
Harvesting
Muskmelons
Paper Plant Protectors
Planting
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher
Introduction
The Cucurbita family is one of the largest and most popular groups of summer vegetables grown all over the world. Come summer, and you are going to see the gardens flourishing with watermelons, musk melons, cucumbers, gourds, pumpkins, squashes, and other large number of trailing vegetables.
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Introduction to Cucurbits - Dueep Jyot Singh
Introduction to Cucurbits
Growing Vine Vegetables Easily in Your Garden
Gardening Series
Dueep Jyot Singh
Mendon Cottage Books
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Cucumbers
- Soil Requirements
- Planting Cucumbers
- Planting in Hills
- Harvesting
Pumpkin
- Pumpkins Sowing
- Harvesting
- Pumpkin Curing and Storage
Watermelons
- Soil Requirements and Climate
- Watermelon Planting
- Harvesting Watermelons
Muskmelons
- Paper Plant Protectors
- Planting
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher
Introduction
The Cucurbita family is one of the largest and most popular groups of summer vegetables grown all over the world. Come summer, and you are going to see the gardens flourishing with watermelons, musk melons, cucumbers, gourds, pumpkins, squashes, and other large number of trailing vegetables.
I remember reading Lin Yutang’s best-selling book, The Importance of Living as a child. In that, he has dedicated a large number of pages on his version of the pursuit of happiness, of which one is sitting outdoors, under the moon, and