How to grow millet

Millet in the north, said millet, small grain, variety, white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple and other colors. It was the main food crop in ancient times, so how did it grow?

How do you plant millet?

1. Land selection and preparation

Select the fertile loam or sandy loam with higher terrain, convenient drainage, deep soil layer and soft texture, and then achieve the quality standard of "early, deep, loose, broken and flat" after soil preparation.

2. sowing

Select the most suitable local shrimp varieties, after screening, drying for 1 day before sowing. Spring sowing and summer sowing can be selected. Spring sowing can be sown when the soil temperature reaches 10-12℃ at the depth of 10cm. Summer sowing can be sown in time after harvest. Generally, the sowing rate per hectare is 15-22.5kg. The optimum sowing depth is 4-5cm.

3. replanting

Generally, when a few leaves grow out after the seed emerges, it is necessary to check whether there are vacancies, and then fill in the vacant places. In addition, for some weak seedlings and sick seedlings, we must remove them in time to avoid expanding the scope of infection.

4. fertilization

In the first half of a month or 20 days before heading when topdressing, the effect is the best, under normal circumstances are the use of pure nitrogen fertilizer if more nitrogen can be carried out separately, so that it can grow faster, in its body, to the later stage, in addition to the use of some fertilizer in its roots, but also need to use some foliar fertilizer, under normal circumstances are phosphorus and some other trace elements, so that it can better bear fruit, It can also make it grow more fully.

Millet should be harvested in time at the end of wax ripening or at the beginning of ripening, one is to prevent insects and birds from eating, and the other is to prevent rain from causing grain loss.