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Detailed Explanation of Water Dropwort Seed Saving Methods and Technical Key Points
Select robust mother plants, requiring characteristics such as medium height, thick stems, short internodes, and relatively concentrated tillering. Once the mother plants are selected, transplant them into the seed-saving field immediately after pulling. The water dropwort seed-saving field should be a paddy field that is warm and sunny, easy to drain, and convenient for roguing. Cultivate finely, applying 1 ton of decomposed human and animal manure and 50 kg of plant ash per mu as base fertilizer. In mid-November or late March to early April of the following year, choose warm and sunny weather, pull selected seed plants from the main field, arrange them in clumps of 3-4 stems, and transplant them neatly. After spring planting, the plants that survive grow relatively small, generally
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Detailed Guide to Simple Garlic Storage Methods, Save for Later Use
The key to garlic storage is creating suitable environmental conditions for dormancy, inhibiting sprouting and rot. The ideal environmental conditions for garlic storage are: low temperature, low humidity, and ventilation. The most suitable temperature is around 0°C, and the relative humidity is 70-80%. Its simple fresh storage requires no special complex process equipment, and even more so no fixed storage location; it adapts to local conditions, uses local materials, has a simple process, and is low in cost. The storage time can reach 7-8 months. Storage methods include hanging storage, rack storage, and cellar storage. 1. Hanging storage: after harvest
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Detailed Explanation of Garlic Processing Technology, Methods and Steps Easy to Understand
Garlic is also known as suan, husuan, and in ancient times was called hu. It is a cultivated species in the genus Allium of the Liliaceae family, in which bulbils form the bulb. Garlic has high nutritional value. Its flavor is unique, with color, aroma, taste, and texture all present, and it can satisfy people's dietary desires on multiple levels. The garlic bulb is white and pungent, with a sticky, spicy, and rich aroma, shaped like pearl white jade, with a strong lingering effect. Garlic scapes are tender and mildly sweet, with green and white alternating, crisp and tasty. Garlic sprouts are green and delicious, with a pungent and spicy flavor and an overwhelming garlic aroma, refreshing and appetizing. There are many ways to eat garlic: it can be eaten raw, mixed in salads, stir-fried, and can also be used as a seasoning. It can also be processed into many kinds of food.
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Detailed Guide to Garlic Storage Techniques: Master the Correct Preservation Methods
Optimal storage temperature: 0°C. Relative humidity: above 95% RH. Garlic shows no chilling injury; as long as it is kept above freezing point (close to 0°C), the lower the temperature, the longer the storage life. Like other leafy vegetables, garlic also requires relatively high humidity to avoid dehydration and wilting, which cause losses. Although topped garlic has a smaller leaf area and loses less weight than whole-stem garlic, storage above 0°C often leads to rot from wound infection, and the leaves tend to yellow, shortening the storage period. Therefore, topped garlic must be sold within a short time and cannot be stored long-term.
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Garlic Storage and Fresh-Keeping Methods and Key Technical Points
Storage of garlic sprouts, garlic scapes and fresh garlic bulbs ① Ice cellar storage: Choose a shaded, sealed room or basement as the cellar. The cellar floor should have a drainage ditch leading outside, spread a 0.8 m thick layer of ice on the floor, and build ice 0.5 m thick against the walls, up to near the roof. Tie garlic sprouts or garlic scapes into bundles of 1 kg, put them into plastic film bags with 15 kg per bag, tie the outside with rope and stack them in the cellar, filling each layer with ice fragments, stacking until about 2 m from the roof, then seal with a layer of ice on top, and spread a 1 m layer of rice husks over it to seal tightly and prevent the ice from melting. This allows garlic to be stored for more than half a year.
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How to prevent and control garlic leaf blight? These methods you need to master
Control measures for garlic leaf blight: 1) Promptly remove damaged leaves and flower stalks; 2) Strengthen field management, plant at a reasonable density, drain promptly after rain, and improve the host's disease resistance; 3) Starting at the early stage of the disease, spray 75% chlorothalonil wettable powder at 600 times dilution, or 50% iprodione wettable powder at 1500 times dilution, 64% oxadixyl-mancozeb wettable powder at 500 times dilution, 50% copper sulfate-ammonium salt wettable powder at 500 times dilution, 60% fosetyl-aluminum wettable powder at 500 times dilution, 14% copper ammonia complex aqueous solution at 300 times dilution, 1:1
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What to Do When Garlic Gets Viral Disease? All the Control Methods Are Here
Dai Hongming of Baimi Town, Jiangyan City called on December 1 and said that his 2 mu of garlic was at the 5-6 leaf stage, and recently 50% of the plants in the field had whole leaves turning yellow and deformed and twisted, with white root systems, and no herbicide had been used earlier. He asked what disease the garlic had and how to control it. On December 3, the Agricultural Technology 001 Studio received the diseased garlic seedlings he sent by express mail. Upon careful examination of the diseased seedlings, they were roughly at the 3-5 leaf stage, with intermittent short yellow-green striped spots on the basal 1-2 leaves, and some leaf tips had already
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Practical methods to extend the fruiting period of tomatoes
After the first generation of tomatoes is harvested, the following 3 methods can be used to make the tomatoes bloom and bear fruit again, improving economic returns. The vine-laying method: after the first generation of tomatoes is mature and harvested, cut off the dead branches and yellow leaves, keep the new branches with vigorous regrowth ability, and dig a fertilization trench 20 cm long and 15 cm deep on one side of the main stem and apply fertilizer. After fertilizing, bury the main stem in the trench and water it, so that the layered vine quickly takes root. In this way, the new roots and old roots absorb water and nutrients together, the plant shape grows rapidly, and the tomatoes can bloom and bear fruit again. The stem-cutting method: after the first generation of tomatoes is harvested, cut off
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Occurrence Patterns and Control Methods of Viral Diseases in Solanaceous Crops
In the southern Guangxi region, the winter climate is warm with no obvious frost, making it a great place for growing winter vegetables to be shipped from the south to the north. Therefore, after harvesting the late rice, farmers grow winter vegetables to supply the market after the Spring Festival, achieving relatively high economic returns and writing a new chapter of "the plan for the year lies in autumn and winter." This has become another way for local farmers to get rich and move toward a moderately prosperous life. Among the many vegetable varieties grown, solanaceous vegetables (tomato, pepper, eggplant) are favored by local farmers for their unique planting advantages. According to statistics, the perennial planting area is around 80,000 mu, and the planting area is predicted to keep rising year by year.
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How to Propagate Lotus Root? A Detailed Explanation of Several Common Methods
-- Lotus seed propagation. Since lotus seeds are covered with a hard shell, first crack open the sunken end of the shell, then soak it in water at 26-30°C to promote germination. Once the sprout emerges, it must still be kept submerged in water to prevent dehydration and shriveling; when it grows to 4 leaves and 1 rhizome runner, it can be planted out in the field. Because lotus seed propagation grows slowly in the early stage, seedlings must be raised in a protected area 1 month in advance so that lotus roots of commercial value can form in the same year. -- Whole lotus root propagation. Plant the entire main lotus root together with its daughter roots and granddaughter roots at a certain row and plant spacing; the planting method is to insert the top end into the mud, with the tail tip exposed
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