Introduction to planting techniques of traditional Chinese Medicine Schizonepeta tenuifolia

Plant morphology:

Schizonepeta tenuifolia is the same year's grass, the leaves are round, the seeds are purple and black, and the whole grass is used as medicine.

Growth habits:

Schizonepeta tenuifolia has strong adaptability and lax requirements on soil quality. Loess, black soil and white sandy soil can be planted, but black clay is better.

Cultivation techniques:

Seed propagation, divided into spring sowing and summer sowing, spring sowing before and after the Spring Equinox to Grain Rain, summer sowing in Grain in Beard, spring sowing early, summer sowing late (in the Autumn Equinox harvest)

Planting method:

The land will be leveled to make a border, according to the row spacing of 6-7 inches, the sown area is 2-3 inches wide, 0.3 cm shallow trench will scatter the seeds in the ditch, then cover the soil, it is appropriate to cover the lack of seeds, and then watering, some non-irrigated and dry land should be sown in spring, and seedlings can emerge in 5-7 days, 2-3 kg per mu.

Field management:

The seedlings should be properly watered and weeded on time, and the seedlings should not be too dry.

Harvesting and processing:

When the straw is matured with no flowers, cut down the whole grass, put it in the ground, dry it and tie it up.