The method and time of planting shepherd's purse

Shepherd's purse is one of the wild vegetables, but now the wild shepherd's purse is less and less, so the market is basically artificially cultivated shepherd's purse. Due to the influence of different environments, there will be a certain gap in its variety and appearance. The planting method of shepherd's purse is relatively simple. If you have nothing to do, you can also plant a little on your own balcony. Well, what the pro-agricultural network wants to teach you today is about the time and methods of planting shepherd's purse. Let's have a look at it if you are interested.

Planting time

Generally speaking, wild vegetables have a strong ability to adapt to the environment. After all, natural selection, survival of the fittest and elimination of the unfit are the invariable rules for the growth of all things in time. Therefore, shepherd's purse can be produced in three seasons a year. Generally, spring sowing is between February and March, summer sowing is around early August, and autumn is best around September. The weather is relatively bad in winter, so the yield is not high, so it is generally not planted.

Planting method

1. Land preparation

Shepherd's purse can be planted anywhere, in a piece, or in a slot in the middle of planting other crops, but it can also be planted on the ridge of the field, but if it is usually planted in a piece of land for high yield, it is necessary to remove all the weeds in the field during soil preparation, the second is to dig deep when turning the soil, remove the germs that may be carried in the deep soil, and then try to flatten the land as far as possible. If there is a depression, fill the puddle with soil, and finally sprinkle a layer of organic fertilizer or plant ash as base fertilizer, and this is the end of land preparation.

2. Sowing seeds

There may be some changes in sowing in different periods. The way of sowing is mainly sowing, and it should be scattered evenly when sowing. There should not be only a few seeds in some places that are too thick. So we will generally put some fine sand or fine soil on the planting class to achieve a strength that is more uniform when sowing. After sowing, we should make the seed word close to the soil, so that the seed can absorb water from the soil and germinate more quickly. There is no need to consider sowing in spring, just sowing directly, but the specific price of sowing temperature in summer is high, so the land needs to be wet before sowing, and the seeds need to be germinated under artificial conditions before sowing in autumn.

3. Management

The plant of shepherd's purse is not very large and small, so weeding management is more difficult. We generally need to remove all the civil weeds before sowing, and then there are weeds during the growth of shepherd's purse, so it takes a long time to pull weeds manually. Secondly, shepherd's purse is planted in different periods, then fertilizer and water management will be different to a certain extent, the growth period of shepherd's purse in spring and summer is relatively short, so the whole growth process only needs to be watered twice and fertilized twice. The autumn growth period is too long, and Rain Water may not be much, so we should always pay attention to its growth status, watering and fertilizing according to the situation. The fertilizer applied is generally organic fertilizer or farm manure, which can make the growth of shepherd's purse closer to natural pollution-free growth.

4. Disease prevention

Wild vegetables normally do not have any diseases, and have a strong ability to resist diseases. if there are diseases, that is, some beetles, vegetable leaf worms and leaf rollers, they mainly eat leaves for a living, so the most common prevention and control method is through chemical control. generally use trichlorfon or some pesticides with relatively low toxic substances to spray to ensure the original and most natural quality of shepherd's purse as far as possible.

5. Harvest

Harvest in batches, the general shepherd's purse growth cycle is about 30 to 45 days, although they are sown at the same time, but the acquired growth rate is fast and slow, so we will dig out the larger plants even the roots, leaving small ones to continue to grow, each harvest batch can be traced to apply appropriate amount of fertilizer to promote the growth process. Finally, remember to keep the seeds when you receive the last batch.