How to choose lentil seeds? What are the methods of raising seedlings?

Lentils, also known as eyebrow beans, high nutritional value, is a very popular vegetable on the autumn table, but also has the medicinal value of invigorating the spleen and promoting dampness. As lentils become more and more popular in the market, they have attracted many farmers to plant them. So how to choose lentil seeds? What are the methods of raising seedlings? Next, let's have a look with the editor.

First, how to select lentil seeds?

Select suitable varieties of lentils for local cultivation, there are more varieties of lentils, you can choose suitable varieties of lentils according to different planting seasons. It is necessary to meet the requirements of cold resistance, heat resistance, high yield, early maturity, strong stress resistance, early pod setting, good commercial characters and excellent quality. Choose good quality, full and mildew-free seeds.

Before planting lentils, it is necessary to soak and accelerate seed germination, especially for lentils planted in spring, because the temperature is not high, the temperature does not reach a certain value, which has a certain delaying effect on lentil germination, and soaking is adopted. It can play a good role in allowing the seeds to germinate quickly, put the seeds in clean water and soak for two days, or wrap them with wet towels. After the seeds are white, they can be planted. In summer, due to the high temperature, they can germinate and grow directly on demand.

Second, what are the seedling methods of lentils?

1. Planting time

Lentils are usually cultivated in the open field in summer and can be guaranteed one after another after mid-January, but the climate is different in different regions, so the sowing time is also different. For example, the planting time of lentils in the Yangtze River valley is from May to July, while that in North China is mostly in June.

2. Seed selection and seedling raising

According to its pod color, lentils can be divided into white lentils, green lentils and purple lentils, in which green flat pods are thin, crisp and tender; purple flat is similar to white lentils, with thick pods and soft cooked pods.

When sowing, combined with ploughing, 3000 kg of rotten farm manure per mu and an appropriate amount of chemical fertilizer should be used as base fertilizer, which should be mixed with the soil and raked flat to prepare the soil. Lentils generally carry out direct seeding, adopt the method of trenching or hole sowing, control the plant spacing in 35-50 cm, row spacing in 100-130 cm, generally sow 3-4 seeds in each hole, and leave two seedlings in each hole after emergence.

3. Field management

Lentils have strong drought tolerance, water is needed for watering at seedling stage, water is needed for watering at vine stage and podding stage, generally need to be watered 1-2 times at vine stage, and once every 10 days at flowering stage. After watering, it should be ploughed and weeded in time, combined with topdressing to prevent falling flowers and pods or overgrowth, less fertilizer should be applied before flowering, and fertilization should be applied again in pod setting period after flowering.

The middle tillage should be shallow, and the roots should be damaged in one year. When applying fertilizer, we should pay attention to the reasonable collocation of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and pay attention to the application amount of nitrogen fertilizer. You can set up a frame before drawing a vine, or use a rope to lead the vine on the shelf in time after drawing the vine, so that the stem vine should be evenly distributed on the hedge. When the main vine grows 1.5 meters, it can prune and pick the heart to promote multiple lateral branches and lateral branches to blossom and bear pods early.

The above is the introduction of lentils. Lentils are actually a kind of plant that is quite easy to grow. This extensive climbing vine plant is very popular among farmers because it is easy to manage and bear many results.

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