Squash Melon
 Watering |
 Cultivation |
 Harvesting |
 Labour |
 Sunlight |
 pH Value |
 Temperature |
 Fertilization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medium | Manual | Manual | Medium | Low | 6 -7 | 10 - 28 °C | Nitrogen@40kg in form of Urea@90kg/acre, Phosphorus@20kg in form of SSP@125kg/acre and Potash@20kg i |
चौलाई (Amaranthus viridis)
Habit : An erect annual herb. Stem : 6 to 100 cm tall, glabrous to pubescent, pubescent especially upwards. Leaves : Glabrous or pubescent on the veins of the lower surface; petioles long (up to 10 cm), occasionally longer than the blade; blade ovate to rhombic-oblong, 2-7 x 1.5-5.5 cm, base tapered to blunt, tip rounded, minutely mucronate, barely to clearly emarginate. Flowers : Green, unisexual, male and female intermixed, in slender axillary to terminal paniculate spikes 2-12 cm long and 2-5 mm wide, or in dense axillary clusters in the lower part of the stem. Fruits : Capsule nearly globose 1.25-1.75 mm long, not rupturing or rupturing irregularly, surface rough. Seeds : 1-1.25 mm, round, slightly compressed, dark brown to black with a paler thick border.
