Bagging Technology for Eggplants and Melons Helps Improve Safety and Efficiency

For vegetables harvested all at once, such as celery, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and rapeseed, you can follow the pre-harvest interval of the pesticide and stop applying it a certain period before harvest, so the product meets pollution-free requirements. But for eggplant-fruiting and melon vegetables harvested multiple times, it is very difficult to set a fixed period before harvest to stop applying pesticides, especially during the harvest period, when fruits affected by pests or diseases may be harvested and sold before the pesticide residue period has passed, causing quality to decline. In tomato and cucumber cultivation, using the fruit bagging method can effectively solve the above problems.

After tomatoes and cucumbers set fruit, choose disease-free fruits for bagging. The transparent polyethylene film bags used for tomatoes are 20 cm long, 16 cm wide, and 0.08 mm thick, and the film bags used for cucumbers are 45 cm long, 8 cm wide, and 0.08 mm thick. After bagging, fasten the bag opening at the fruit stalk with a rubber band, with moderate tightness.

After the fruit is bagged, the fruit body grows faster, the color is better, and the fruit turns red faster than without bagging, and pesticide residues are significantly reduced. Bagging can also directly prevent pests and diseases from infecting the fruit, ensuring the safety of the vegetable product. After the fruit reaches the market standard, the bag and fruit can be packaged together for market.