What are the prospects for planting dandelions in 2020? How to plant it?

Dandelion is a familiar plant, in many places will grow tenacious dandelion, children also like to blow its flowers, watching the petals scattered, in fact, dandelion has a high medicinal value, so what is the prospect of planting dandelion in 2020? How to plant it?

What are the prospects of planting dandelions in 2020?

Dandelion has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncle, eliminating inflammation and strengthening stomach, tender leaves can be used for cooking, the whole plant can be used as medicine, is one of the eight King Kong of traditional Chinese medicine. Dry products and leaves can be harvested four times a year, which is the main economic source of planting dandelion. A year's planting can produce 400 jin of dry products per mu of land. Fresh and tender dandelions in spring can also be sold in the market as vegetables, and the planting prospect of supplying dandelions in the greenhouse throughout the year is also very good. Moreover, dandelion has high yield and strong adaptability, coupled with the development of artificial cultivation of dandelion, the varieties are becoming more and more high-quality.

How to plant dandelions?

1. Seed selection: at present, the technology of artificial planting dandelion is getting better and better, and the dandelion that can be planted is becoming more and more high-quality. Plants with hypertrophic leaves, polychromatic green leaves, deep sawtooth and strong roots are selected as seed collection plants, and the yield is higher. The benefit of planting will be higher.

two。 Land preparation: choose loose and fertile sandy loam soil rich in organic matter and apply 3000Mu 3500 kg of mature high-quality farm manure per mu. After the autumn harvest, spread fertilizer evenly and turn over 20-25 cm for soil preparation. High or flat beds can be made according to local customs.

3. Sowing: there are mainly two ways of planting dandelion: strip sowing and sowing. Strip sowing is to open a shallow trench on the border according to the row spacing of 20~25cm, sowing width is about 10cm, after sowing, cover soil 0.3-0.5cm and then slightly suppress. Sowing is spread on the flat bed, with about 1 kg of seed per mu, cover grass to keep warm and moisturize after sowing, remove the cover grass when it comes out of seedlings, and it can emerge in about 7-10 days, but not cover grass if it is moist and cool.

4. Seedling management: seedling emergence about a week after sowing. After the seedlings come out, remove the film, and in time ploughing and weeding, topdressing and watering, but the seedlings are more exuberant. When the seedlings enter the true leaf stage of 2 to 3, 5 to 6 and 7 to 9 leaves, the seedlings should be carried out for 3 times in combination with intertillage and weeding (the seedlings below can be put on the market), and the seedlings should be selected according to the plant spacing of 3 cm. After the seedlings are fixed, they should be watered in time, and 10-15 kg of urea and 5 kg of potassium dihydrogen phosphate per mu should be applied, and then watered again combined with topdressing. In this period, overgrowth and lodging should be prevented, and weeds in the field should be removed in time combined with ploughing.

5. Water and fertilizer: keeping the soil moist and soil fertility is the key to the growth of dandelion. After each seedling and harvest, one time of available nitrogen fertilizer was applied combined with watering. Do not water within 3-4 days after harvest to prevent rotting roots. During the growth period, fertilizer should be applied twice, with urea 10~14kg and potassium dihydrogen phosphate 5~6kg per mu each time. Water regularly to keep the soil moist.

The vitality of dandelion is very tenacious, there are few diseases and insect pests, and the demand for dandelion in the market is increasing, so the prospect of planting is very good.