How to grow ice vegetables

Ice vegetable scientific name ice pillar, also known as ice leaf sunflower, its surface will produce something like ice, in addition, it has its own salty taste, eat without salt, suitable for salad or cold. So do you know how to grow this strange vegetable? Let's take a look.

1. Planting preparation

The seeds of ice vegetables are very small, and their ability to arch the soil is weak. They often sprout or cannot be unearthed because the soil is too hard, causing the seeds to rot to death. Therefore, it is necessary to choose a good soil before planting, requiring the soil to be soft, breathable and moisturized. only in this way can the soil be suitable for the growth of ice vegetables. The seedling substrate can also be installed in the seedling tray to raise seedlings indoors, and the seedling substrate can be made of coconut brick-based nutrient soil.

2. Sowing and raising seedlings

Soak the seeds in warm water of about 30 degrees for 2-4 hours before sowing, sow 2-3 seeds in each hole when sowing, and sow 2-3 seeds in 9cm if it is a seedling tray. After sowing, cover a layer of 3-5 mm fine soil, should not be too deep, otherwise it will affect its normal germination, keep the temperature at about 20 degrees after sowing, should not be too high or too low, low temperature to find a way to increase the temperature, high temperature to strengthen ventilation, to reduce the temperature of the seedling environment. In this way, seedlings will sprout soon. Generally, 20-40 days after sowing or seedlings grow 4-5 leaves, they can be transplanted and planted.

3. Transplanting

When transplanting seedlings, we should be careful not to damage the roots of the seedlings, and the time of transplanting should not be in rainy days or high temperature periods, so as not to affect the survival rate of transplanting. Digging holes in the planting site and transplanting, controlling the row spacing of 20 × 30cm per hole, covering soil after transplanting, watering the seedlings slowly once, it is not suitable to pour too much, and then control the temperature at about 25 degrees.

4. Field management

Ice vegetables are suitable for growth at 20-30 degrees Celsius, and are sensitive to high temperatures, so in summer, it is necessary to pay attention to the best measures to shade and avoid the sun, so as to avoid normal burns caused by strong light, resulting in death, strengthening ventilation and reducing the temperature of the planting land. Ice vegetables are more resistant to drought, so when watering, it is not appropriate to water too much, and then water when the soil surface is dry. Ice vegetables are very fast in the middle and late stage, and a large area can grow in a short time.

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