Which Chinese herbal medicines can be interplanted in orchards or woodlands?

Interplanting Chinese herbal medicine under the forest can not only make full use of light energy, soil fertility and space, inhibit the growth of weeds, but also improve the early income of young orchards. Of course, not any kind of Chinese herbal medicine can be interplanted in the orchard, it must be strictly selected, otherwise it is easy to "lose both sides"! Which Chinese herbal medicines can be interplanted in orchards or woodlands?

I. Regional dominant varieties

Chinese herbal medicine has a certain advantage of producing area, so it is necessary to choose local characteristic Chinese herbal medicine, which has an advantage in sales. For example, farmers in Shanxi interplanted Radix Isatidis and Salvia miltiorrhiza in walnut orchards; Daxing County in Beijing interplanted chrysanthemum, perilla, achyranthes bidentata and psoralen in pear orchards; Jingxing County in Hebei Province interplanted turmeric, Atractylodes macrocephala and chrysanthemum under apple trees; Yin County in Zhejiang Province planted Salvia miltiorrhiza under pear trees; and Jintang County in Sichuan Province interplanted Gastrodia elata and Ligusticum chuanxiong in grapefruit orchards.

II. Land types

Dryland orchards are only suitable for interplanting drought-tolerant traditional Chinese medicine, such as Bupleurum, Scutellaria baicalensis, Radix Astragali, Anemarrhena anemarrhena, etc.; watery orchards can interplant more humid Yuanhu, Fuzi, Radix Scutellariae, etc.; mountain orchards should interplant Coptis chinensis, Codonopsis pilosula, Ophiopogon, American ginseng, etc.

Third, tree age

Fruit trees are young and can be harvested in rows for 1-3 years, such as Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Scutellariae, Radix Astragali, Grass Hongguang, Polygala, Chrysanthemum, Achyranthes bidentata, Radix Isatidis, Cassia cassia, Atractylodes macrocephala, Radix Atractylodis, Radix Bupleuri and so on. With the increase of fruit tree crown to form a more shady environment, it is necessary to plant shady traditional Chinese medicine, such as Pinellia ternata, Bupleurum, Coptis chinensis, Tiannanxing, Rehmannia glutinosa, yam, Anemarrhena anemarrhena and so on.

IV. Crown condition

Fruit trees with dense crowns and leaves, such as peaches, cherries, grapes, persimmons and apricots, can be interplanted with herbs such as Asarum, Pinellia ternata, Gastrodia elata, Ganoderma lucidum, Rhizoma Coptidis, Panax notoginseng, Panax notoginseng, Amorphophallus, Polygonatum odoratum, etc.; fruit trees with sparse crowns, such as apples, pears, Hawthorns, etc., can interplant medicinal materials such as Salvia miltiorrhiza, lily, Tianmendong, etc.

5. Phenological phase of fruit trees

Jujube, persimmon and other fruit trees that germinate late can be interplanted with medicinal materials that like light but have the habit of summer dormancy, such as Fritillaria, Yuanhu, Lycoris radiata, etc., and fruit trees whose fruit ripening period ends before the hottest month, such as peaches, apricots, cherries, etc., can be interplanted with heat-loving and treading fungus herbs, such as Fuling, etc.

The proportion of interplanting Chinese herbal medicine under the forest should be appropriate, and the stubble should be changed every year or every other year, because continuous cropping is prone to diseases, resulting in reduced yield or lack of certain nutrients. Attention should be paid to strengthening the field management of water and fertilizer in order to achieve a bumper harvest of fruit and medicine.