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Try These New Methods for Growing Sweet Potato Slips
The traditional technique for growing sweet potato slips is to store sweet potatoes harvested in autumn, plant and cultivate them in spring to grow vines, then cut the vines into sections and root them to produce sweet potato slips. This method is labor-intensive, time-consuming and uses up seed potatoes, and the winter storage technique is hard to master, which affects the following year's
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Key Field Management Techniques for Growing Vegetable Sweet Potato
1. Checking seedlings and filling gaps: 5-7 days after planting, check the survival of the sweet potato vines and promptly replant strong seedlings in spots where plants are missing. 2. Topdressing: For spring sweet potatoes, 30-40 days after planting, after the vines spread and before the rows close; for summer sweet potatoes, 20-25 days after planting, open holes below the side of the ridge and apply topdressing, using 30 kg per mu of compound fertilizer (N:P:K=10:7:8); combine topdressing with loosening the soil between ridges and hoeing weeds.
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Growing sweet potato vines on trellises can increase yield
Last autumn, on the day we dug up the sweet potatoes, many onlookers came over, because they wanted to see just how the yield turned out after growing sweet potatoes on trellises. As soon as several piles were dug up, the onlookers were full of praise: the trellised sweet potatoes had grown really well, large, uniform, and abundant in yield!
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When Is the Best Time to Harvest Peanuts? A Full Guide to Seed-Saving Techniques
Mastering the right harvest time for peanuts is hugely important for improving peanut yield and quality. While harvesting peanuts, be sure to select and keep good seeds to ensure a bumper peanut harvest next year. Here is an introduction to the right harvest time and seed-saving techniques for peanuts: 1. Timeliness
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To grow peanuts well, management at the middle and late stages is key
In peanut planting and production, if middle and late stage management cannot keep up, it will lead to lower peanut yields, which is a factor that seriously restricts the expansion of peanut planting area. 1. Timely topdressing and hilling. From the beginning of flowering to full flowering, a lack of fertilizer in peanuts easily reduces the number of flowers and affects peg penetration into the soil for pod setting
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What are the control methods for peanut root rot?
In recent days, many farmers have brought peanut leaves to the shop to ask what is going on. On the surface, the leaves are yellowing, and some farmers think it is a lack of nutrients, but in fact it is mainly caused by root rot. A while ago, rain was frequent, making the soil damp,
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How to Grow Peanuts for High Yield? Twelve Practical Methods
Everyone should not underestimate this little peanut, for it actually contains great nutritional value. Whether boiled, stewed, or made into all kinds of snacks, peanuts are very sweet and delicious, and peanuts can also be pressed into peanut oil, and pure peanut oil is
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What are the precautions for growing peanuts with plastic film mulching
Based on my experience growing film-mulched peanuts in Haicheng City, the following issues need attention in peanut plastic film mulching: 1. Choose suitable plots. It is best to choose sandy loam soil with deep soil layers and strong water and fertilizer retention capacity. Do not choose low-lying, easily waterlogged plots, and strictly avoid continuous cropping or alternating cropping.
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How to chemically control weeds when growing peanuts
Peanut is one of the main cash crops in Yanshan, and in the cultivation process the most labor-intensive and time-consuming task is weeding. The weeds that cause relatively serious damage on peanut land include grasses such as crabgrass, foxtail, Chinese sprangletop, nutsedge, goosegrass and barnyardgrass; broadleaf weeds include thistle
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How to grow peanuts for high yield? Getting sowing right is key
1. Improved variety selection: choose high-quality, high-yield peanut varieties such as Huayu No. 17, Huayu No. 16, 8130, etc. 2. Formula fertilization: growing peanuts absorb nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in a ratio of 1.1:1:1.1. According to this ratio, for fields with ordinary yield, apply per mu 2000 kg of high-quality farmyard manure, 50 kg of superphosphate, 15-20 kg of compound fertilizer, 10 kg of urea, 2-3 kg of potassium dihydrogen phosphate, and 1 kg each of borax and zinc sulfate. Mix the farmyard manure, superphosphate and potassium dihydrogen phosphate and broadcast them during land preparation; apply the other chemical fertilizers in the furrows when ridging.
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