In the national scenario, Cucurbita pepo L’s cultivationemerges as an important vegetable in our economy. The vegetable has arelationship with the Cucurbitaceae family. It is like a cackrey, watermelon,melon, and cucumber (Filgueira, 2008).The agricultural economic amount develops from the unripe fruitscommercialization.
In this research, we will be using the seeds of Cucurbitapepo L. as fertilizer for Solanum melongena cultivation. In its seeds, there ismineral zinc. There will be more zinc when it is unshelled. (www.
whfoods.com) You can get phosphorus, magnesium, manganese and copperin pumpkin seeds. Phosphorus helps plants grow by converting other nutrientsinto helpful building blocks.
It is usually found in fertilizer. (www.gardeningknowhow.com) Magnesium’s nutrient is important to plants.
It has abig role for plants to function. One of it is in the photosynthesis process, asit is the Chlorophyll’s building block, which make green leaves come out. (www.smart-fertilizer.com) Manganese is used as a main contributor to variousbiological systems, also photosynthesis, respiration and nitrogen assimilationin plants.
Plants need very small amount of micronutrients that can be found incopper. (www.pthoculture.com) Pumpkinseeds have antioxidants which can defend the plants from damage.
Examples ofits antioxidants are carotenoids and vitamin E. (www.healthline.com) Pumpkinseed contains vitamin E.
Every 100 g. of pumpkin seeds consist of at least35.10 mg of tocopherol. (www.
nutrition-and-you.com) It also containscarotenoids. Dietary fibers can also be found in the seeds. There are fourfatty acids that are present in pumpkin seeds. These are palmitic, stearic,oleic, and linoleic acids. This includes 16.41% palmitic acid and 11.
14%stearic acid which are the saturated fatty acids. It also includes theunsaturated fatty acids which are consisting of 18.14% oleic and 52.69% linoleic acid. (Shodhganga.
inflibnet.ac.in)Another fact with the seed is that it is rich in nutrients, has high content ofprotein and its micronutrients are plenty. Total sugars, protein, fiber, fatand moisture levels are the chemical content of pumpkin seeds were 0.
11%,33.82%, 21.97%, 31.
57% and 8.46%, respectively. (www.sciencedirect.com) The plant that we will be using for our research is eggplant.It is a perennial and annual plant.
Perennial means that it’s life span canlast more than 2 years. Annual means it completes it’s life cycle. It’s stem isfrequently spiny. White to purple are the color of it’s flower and in there,there are the stamens which is color yellow.
(Wikipedia) Our research aims to know what will be the effects ofpumpkin seeds as fertilizer in eggplant’s fruit cultivation. We will identifythere will be changes to the fruits of eggplants or none.
