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How to grow citronella

Published: 2024-11-24 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/24, Citronella is one of the common herbs, also known as lemon grass. Can be used as essential oils, aromatic agents, but also can treat rheumatism, migraine and so on. If it is planted in more than one drop, how does it grow? How do you grow citronella? 1. The requirement of citronella grass for soil selection and land preparation is not high, general soil.

Citronella is one of the common herbs, also known as lemongrass. It can be used as essential oil, aromatic agent, and can also treat rheumatism, migraine, etc. If there is planting in many drops, how can it be planted?

How to grow citronella?

1. Land selection and preparation

Citronella grass for soil requirements are not high, the general soil can be planted, but not planted in saline-alkali land or sand, in addition, it is afraid of drought, so it requires easy to plant irrigation. In the selected plots to carry out tillage 20 cm, apply decomposed farm manure as fertilizer, re-ridge or make beds, shaping rake flat.

2. sowing

Citronella sowing time to the end of the final frost 6-8 days or 80-90 days before the first frost period is appropriate, can be used for sowing or sowing method. After mixing seeds and plant ash, sow them into ditches. Pay attention to the plant spacing between seeds. Cover them with soil. If the soil is dry, water them properly.

3. field management

After the seedlings are neat, the seedlings are thinned in time, and the plant spacing is 2 cm to 5 cm; the ridge cultivation should be cultivated and weeded in time; the artificial weeding of sowing, small row spacing and drilling should be carried out, and the chemical herbicides of gramineae can also be used to control the grass.

When the seeds of citronella inflorescences mature and begin to fall, they can be harvested.

 
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