How many years does it take to plant edible lilies? You should know the time and method of planting!

Lily is a variety of perennial herbaceous bulbous plants, can be ornamental, edible and medicinal, planting range is also very wide. How many years does it take to harvest edible lilies? Do you know when and how to plant it?

1. Basic information of lily

1. Distribution of Lily

Lily is also known as Qiangshu, Fanchiu, Shandan, Daoxian, Zhongmai, Zhongting, Moro, Zhongxiang, Zhongfeng Flower, Lily Garlic, Dashifu Garlic, Garlic Naoshu, Yehe Flower, etc. It is a kind of herbaceous plant native to China, mainly distributed in eastern Asia, Europe, North America and other temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is mainly produced in Hunan, Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in China. It is planted all over the country, and a few of them are wild resources.

2. The Value of Lily

Lily is rich in protein, get rich, vitamins, etc., whether fresh or dry can be used. Edible lily has a good nutritional tonic effect, in the autumn climate caused by dry a variety of seasonal diseases have a certain prevention and control effect, in addition to fragrant lily also Yangxin calm, lungs cough and other effects.

3. Lily's Flower Language

Lily flower language is a hundred years of good marriage, great love, deep blessing, etc., in feng shui, lily also for single people to enhance the role of love, and lily symbolizes happiness, often used as wedding flowers.

2. How many years does it take to harvest edible lily?

1. Lily is generally planted in the autumn of the second year, until the ground part completely withered, the lower part can be fully mature harvest. Lily is generally picked in sunny days after the festival (late July), and the above-ground parts are removed after harvest. The fibrous roots and seed roots are stored in ventilated places.

2. The underground bulbs of the edible lily can be harvested throughout the year. However, the edible flavor and commodity value vary with the harvest time. Generally in October, after the stem withers, after a period of cooling process, to harvest around the beginning of winter, the sugar content of lily bulbs increases rapidly, which is also a physiological reaction of the plant body to prepare for winter.

3. Planting time and method of edible lily

1. The planting time of edible lily

Lily reproduction can be selected asexual reproduction (scale reproduction, seed ball reproduction and bulb reproduction) or sexual reproduction. Among them, the scale propagation should be carried out in autumn every year, and the pearl bud propagation should be harvested after maturity in summer, mixed with wet spun yarn after harvest, stored in a cool and ventilated place, and then planted in September to October of the same year; if sexual propagation is adopted, the mature seeds should be harvested in autumn, and then sown in the seedbed.

2. Cultivation method of edible lily

(1) The cultivation of edible lily should choose sandy loam with fertile soil, high and cool terrain, good drainage and loose soil. Organic or compound fertilizer should be applied as base fertilizer before termination, and drainage ditch should be dug for high ridge.

(2) selecting disease-free and robust large bulbs, cutting off the bases, peeling off scales, inserting the scales into the well arranged seedling border according to the row spacing of 10cm X5cm, compacting, watering the soles of feet, covering the border surface with straw for heat preservation and moisture preservation; developing into new plants in the spring of the next year, and then transplanting into the field.

(3) After the lily seedlings are unearthed, remember to weed in time. It is advisable to hoe them shallow before May to avoid damaging the bulbs. When they grow to the closed row, they will not be cultivated and weeded, and the big grass will be pulled out by hand; the rain will be discharged in time for a long time. After flowering, 28- 32kg calcium superphosphate, 20- 25kg ammonium phosphate and 0.2- 0.4kg zinc sulfate shall be applied per mu. After application, soil covering and watering shall be carried out.

(4) Common diseases and insect pests of lily include cotton rot, standing blight, virus, leaf blight, black stem disease, aphids, beetle larvae, mites, etc. We must take good control measures when planting.

The above is all about the introduction of edible lily, I hope to help you.