How to plant the latest cat claw grass

Cat claw is an annual herb of Ranunculaceae, and it is also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Its underground tuber is the main part of medicine. At present, cat claw is mainly distributed in Guangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang, South China, Hubei and other places, but the yield is not very high, so it is also a very scarce traditional Chinese medicine in the market. Today, the editor is going to teach you how to plant cat claws.

1. Land selection and preparation

Cat claw grass has the characteristics of light, shade tolerance, warmth, moisture and strong adaptability to the environment. So generally speaking, the requirement of planting land is not high, but if you want to plant cat claw grass well, you still have to choose the planting site. Usually suitable for planting in rich soil, good drainage, rich water pollution, sandy loam, followed by the need to consider the problem of light, it is best to choose in the sunny area of the mountain, flat land, slope and so on. After selecting the planting site, the land should be ploughed deeply and combined with base fertilizer, which is mainly organic rotten fertilizer, mixed phosphate fertilizer and cake fertilizer. Finally, fine rake flat, ditch to make a bed.

2. Methods of reproduction

There are three ways of propagation of cat claw grass, which are seed propagation, ramet propagation and stem propagation. But no matter which breeding method is used, it can be planted in spring and autumn. In the process of planting, we should pay attention to the density of planting, the row spacing of seed reproduction is generally about 15 cm, and spread the seeds evenly. On the other hand, the row spacing of ramet propagation and seed stem propagation is 15 cm, and the plant spacing is about 10 cm. The last thing is to cultivate the soil and water it to wait for seedlings to emerge.

3. Field management

In the growth process of cat claw grass, we want the moisture of the main soil to be kept at about 60%, so we'd better water it every other week or so. If we encounter dry weather with higher temperature and less rainfall, then we also need to use the way of watering sooner or later to achieve the purpose of cooling. Of course, it is important to pay attention to that in the continuous rainy season, we should timely drainage to avoid waterlogging. In order to increase the yield of cat claw grass, we should carry out at least three times of topdressing in its later growth process, the first time is to irrigate with fecal and urine water, the second time is to apply ternary compound fertilizer in ditch, and the third time is mainly phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, combined with foliar fertilizer to promote the growth of tubers. Of course, it is necessary to pay attention to weeding in ploughing, weeding in time, so as to avoid nutrient loss, shallow ploughing as far as possible, so as not to hurt the tubers of cat claw grass and affect the growth of tubers.

4. Disease and pest control

The resistance of cat claw grass is strong, so it rarely occurs, and the insect pests are also very few. However, if there is no reasonable management in the case of continuous rainfall, it is also very easy to occur blight, which means that we have to timely drainage, in the initial stage of the disease can be used for prevention and control. There is the possibility of white silk disease and powdery mildew, we can use methyl thiophanate wettable powder and trimethoprim respectively to control.

Another important reason why there is a shortage of cat claws in the market is that the planting scale is small, followed by the lack of planting technology. Many people think that cat claw grass is easy to grow and then managed by the landlord, which is also an important reason for the failure of cat claw grass planting. If you have friends who want to plant cat claws, you can read the above carefully.