How to grow radish with high yield

As one of the ancient cultivation materials in the world, radish has a wide planting area in the world. Its roots can be eaten as vegetables, seeds can be extracted from oil, leaf roots can be used as medicine, and its use value is high. Then how can planting make it high-yielding?

How to grow radish with high yield?

1. Land selection and preparation

Select the sandy loam land with gentle topography, good light, rich organic matter, deep soil layer, fertile and loose soil, convenient drainage and irrigation, deep ploughing, smashing and raking, cultivated land depth should be turned over 26-40cm, and the way of deep ditch and high border should be adopted. Then, high quality mature organic fertilizer 2000-3000kg and potassium sulfate compound fertilizer 40kg were applied per mu (the specific amount of fertilization was determined according to the actual situation of the planting site).

two。 Sowing seeds

Radish can be sown from mid-February to early April, mid-late July to early October, but it is better to sow in September. When sowing, choose sowing, strip sowing and hole sowing according to the situation, cover the culture soil after sowing, and then water it.

3. Interseedling and fixed seedling

The seedlings of radish were carried out after the emergence of true leaves, and the seedlings were fixed when the seedlings grew to 6-7 true leaves. Be careful not to hurt or bend the seedlings during the interseedling and fixed seedling period.

4. Fertilizer and water management

Radish is not tolerant to drought, so it is necessary to determine the watering times and the amount of water each time according to the amount of precipitation and the level of groundwater table, and to master flexibly according to the different growth and development stages of radish. After the radish base fertilizer is fully applied, it is generally necessary to apply fertilizer in the growth period only after the end of the squatting seedling stage and the rapid expansion of fleshy roots, and the amount of fertilizer application is determined according to the specific situation.

5. Pest control

The main diseases of radish are soft rot, black rot and mosaic virus disease, aphids, cabbage borer, cabbage worm, Plutella xylostella. Growers should take preventive measures in advance and spray chemicals according to different conditions.

In addition, radish in the seedling stage to close the row, generally need to ploughing once, according to the actual situation to weed and loosen the soil.