How to grow olive seeds

Olives are native to southern China and are wild in ravines and hillside forests below 1300 meters above sea level, or cultivated in gardens and villages. So how do you grow olive seeds?

First, how to grow olive seeds?

1. Selection of species

When growing olives, you should choose new species that are mature and intact, and you must strictly select them. If you buy old or rotten seeds, there will not be a very high germination rate and the yield will not be too high. Olive seeds should be stored in low temperature sand before sowing, so that the seeds can not only germinate faster and better.

two。 Sowing seeds

Olive seeds can be sowed in early spring and no later than Qingming Festival. Sowing in this season is more conducive to seed germination and can make the germination effect better. Its seeds are generally sown directly, sowing the seeds evenly in the whole land, and then covering the soil.

3. Fertilizer and water management

After the completion of olive seed sowing, we still need to do a good job of maintenance, in the later stage is mainly to do a good job of water and fertilizer management, appropriate watering and fertilization to ensure that there are enough water and nutrients to promote its better growth. At the same time, weeding should be carried out in time to prevent weeds from affecting growth, and drainage measures should be taken in the rainy season to avoid problems caused by stagnant water in the soil, and then control diseases and insect pests to ensure that there will be no major problems.

II. Nutritional value of olives

Olives are rich in nutrition, and the pulp contains protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamin C and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, in which the content of vitamin C is 10 times that of apples, 5 times that of pears and peaches, and the content of calcium is also very high. It is easy to be absorbed by the human body, especially suitable for women and children. In winter and spring, chewing two or three fresh olives a day can prevent upper respiratory tract infection, so it is known as "winter and spring olive game ginseng".

Olives are good windbreak trees and street trees. Wood can be used for shipbuilding, sleepers, furniture, agricultural tools and construction materials. The fruit can be eaten raw or soaked, and can be used medicinally to treat laryngitis, hemoptysis, thirst, enteritis and diarrhea. Nuclear for carving, and medicinal, effective in the treatment of fish bone larynx.