Cultivation of Timun Aceh

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The cultivation of aceh cucumber in the yard is one of the most promising cultivation. There is no need for extensive land in planting this plant. Usually in addition to cucumbers around him also planted other plants such as chili. Aceh cucumber cultivation is mostly done during the holy month of Ramadan.

Cucumber plants live in one season. Latin name of mentimum is cucumis sativus if in english this plant named cucumber if japan is named kyuuri while for in Indonesia there are many names to mentimum: some area in South Sumatera named japan, sunda bonteng, madura temon or antemon, java cucumber, balip or antimun, Lampung hantimun, Aceh sedangan named timon.

Cucumber fruit is a type of fruit-bauhan in the classified into the type of vegetables are in great demand by the community. In addition, cucumber can also be processed into just fresh. Better known by the name just cucumber. The cucumber fruit of Aceh has a great demand during the holy month of Ramadhan.

Techniques and ways of planting the aceh cucumber is very easy. Starting from the nursery, land preparation, maintenance and maintenance as well as timely harvesting will produce an optimal result.

Seed Reconciliation
The first thing to do in cultivating aceh cucumber is to choose quality seeds. The reconciliation of aceh cucumber seeds can be done directly in small polybags. Inside the polybag can be mixed soil with compost.

Processing land
After selecting the seeds and savoring them in small polybags, the next thing to do is prepare the land to plant the seeds that have been sown. Processing of the soil is done by hoe and made the bedeng as in budadaya pepper plant. There is no specific size for optimal length of beds. But the recommended width is about one meter. Inside the beds are added manure and ZA fertilizer, and can also NPK fertilizer.

Transfer of Planting from Seeds in the good
After the seeds are about two weeks old, the seeds that have grown can be directly planted in the land that has been prepared. Preferably when the transplant is done by telita the right time is in the morning.

Care and Voting
The maintenance of the aceh cucumber is very easy to do enough watering every day on a regular basis because the aceh cucumber requires a lot of water because the fruit produced has high water content. Then clean up the weeds that can cause the growth of aceh cucumber to become dwarf. Better spraying is done regularly to eradicate pests that may come especially in the dry season or in the rainy season.

Harvest
The harvest of the Acehnese cucumber can be done gradually depending on the need. The young aceh cucumber fruit can be used as vegetables and vegetables. Generally, aceh cucumber is harvested when cucumber is yellow. The yellow cucumber is considered a very ripe cucumber. At the time of Ramadan the price of a kilo of aceh cucumber ranges from Rp 4000 - 7000, -