How to grow water chestnuts

Water chestnut is also known as "horseshoe" pulp can be eaten as fruit, crisp and delicious, delicious and juicy. It can also be used as medicine, it has many effects such as clearing heat and detoxification, dispelling dampness and relieving phlegm. It has obvious therapeutic effect on patients with fever. So how is the water chestnut planted? today, the editor will give you a brief introduction.

1. Select the place

Water chestnuts like moderate temperature, high humidity but not cold-resistant, more suitable for planting in the bottom of the solid, upper soft soil farming soil should be about 22 cm. Because this can not only let water chestnut production and development, but also can prevent its stem deep drilling, the development size will be about the same. It is beneficial to harvest and sales, if the soil is too sticky, it will affect the normal growth and reduce the sugar content.

2. Raising seedlings

The specific time of raising seedlings should also be determined according to the time of transplanting, and the early water chestnut transplanting begins from one month to one and a half months before transplanting. The late water chestnut began to raise seedlings from half a month to one month before transplanting. Shepherd's bud should choose strong, thick, full-edged, disease-free and injury-free Cardamine to raise seedlings. The species of Cardamine should be arranged, covered with straw, drenched twice a day, and the lateral buds can be planted.

3. Ramet

Before cultivation, the shepherd seedlings should be pulled out, the mud should be washed off with water, and some small seedlings should be removed. Because after this kind of seedling is planted, the probability of ramet will be reduced. If ramet occurs, the mother plant should be divided into about 3. If the stem is too long, cut off the growing part to prevent it from being broken. If it is a seedling with Cardamine seeds, the corm should be deep into the soil about 9cm, if the ramet, the root should be neat, buried in a few centimeters deep.

4. Fertilization

The basic fertilizer of water chestnut land should be about 40, 000 kg of farm manure and 5000 kg of superphosphate per mu. In order to promote the growth of water chestnut, the main amount is according to the transplanting period and the degree of soil fertility. Zaoshui water chestnut is mainly based on base fertilizer and organic fertilizer, and farm manure is applied once in half a month after transplanting and at flowering stage. However, the amount of fertilizer should not be excessive to avoid excessive plant growth, causing diseases and insect pests and lodging. The late water chestnut should increase the amount of fertilizer and apply more quick-acting fertilizer.

5. Harvest

The harvest usually lasted in the Winter Solstice until the Spring Equinox in the following year. If the harvest is too early, the flesh is not sweet, and the peel is too thin to be stored, the Winter Solstice is the stage with the sweetest pulp and the highest sugar content. Therefore, it is most appropriate for the Winter Solstice to start harvesting. Drain the water from the field the day before the harvest, then remove the soil from the upper layer, dig out the soil and water chestnuts in the lower layer, and squeeze them out with your hands.

The above is a brief introduction to how to grow water chestnut. Water chestnut is actually a good crop to grow. There are no great requirements for humidity and care, as long as more attention is paid to diseases and insect pests in the maintenance process, after all, diseases and insect pests are the pain of all crops. Carelessness may lead to a massive reduction or even extinction of production.