江南沿海地区由于受天气和品种条件的制约,一直没有夏秋作西瓜栽培的习惯。但夏秋作西瓜,特别是小西瓜,品质优,价格高,效益好,市场前景广阔。为了大力发展夏秋作小西瓜,我们于1996～1998年进行了品种筛选和栽培技术研究,现将3年来的试验实践总结如下。 Coastal areas in the Yangtze River due to the weather and the conditions of the constraints, there has been no summer-autumn watermelon cultivation habits. But summer and autumn for watermelon, especially small watermelon, excellent quality, high prices, good efficiency, the market prospects. In order to vigorously develop summer and autumn as a small watermelon, we conducted a variety of screening and cultivation techniques in 1996 ~ 1998, now 3 years of experimental practice are summarized as follows.