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Gourd seeds  Bitter gourd – Bitter gourd or bitter melon is one of a unique vegetable-fruit that can either be used as a medicine or food. Bitter gourd juice is known to have a unique quality of reducing the blood sugar level.

It is considered as the most bitter among all varieties of fruits and vegetables. These plants are mostly seen in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, South America, the Caribbean and many parts of Africa.Learn how to grow bitter melon. This healthy bitter vegetable grows up quickly and fruits productively. It is a vine that can be very easily grown in your garden or on your terrace, even in a pot. You just need to use good soil and put it in a place where it gets plenty of sunshine and fresh air. With a little effort, you can enjoy this vegetable harvested from your own garden for months.

How to sow bitter gourd seeds in your  vegetable garden or terrace garden?

First  good quality seeds. You can use seeds you get from ripe yellow fruits. You can be purchase in garden shops,agriculture offices or it can purchase through online stores.  Good grade gourd seeds available in natureloc.com from vegetable fruit promotion.  Before sowing the seeds, you need to choose the right location and time.Select a warm, sunny planting location. It can be grown in ground in your garden or in a pot.  Bitter melon grows best in organically rich, sandy or loamy soil that drains well. If planting in a pot, it should have a number of holes at the bottom to ensure good drainage. Mix compost and cow manure in the soil.  Use correct size pot and ensure proper drainage.

Sow the seeds directly in the selected planting location in late spring or early summer. Make a hole in the soil, put 1 or 2 seeds in the hole and then fill the hole with soil. Water the seeds a little bit, just so that the soil becomes wet.
Water the seeds daily and wait patiently for about a week until the seedlings start to emerge. Soon the small plant will start growing day by day. Keep track of the growth.Water the plant when the soil loses moisture. Water it generously and regularly, but be careful not to overwater it. The soil should be moist, but not soggy.

Add rope support to the young plant

Manure for the Plant – make compost from kitchen waste using an old broken bucket as compost bin. The digested slurry from a bio-gas plant also makes a very good manure.Or any cattle, you can use their waste as manure for the plant.

As the vine starts growing longer, you need to use a rope to allow the vine to climb.
In the meantime, you will notice flowers blooming on the vine. The plant will have both male and female flowers.

While the male flowers fall off in 1 to 2 days the female flowers go on to produce fruits.

More female flowers will bloom in the coming days.

After about three months, you can harvest the fruits of your labor.

The mature gourd fruits have a light green color and the ends of the spines will become round.

Freshly harvested fruit tastes the best.

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