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For garlic to be high-yielding, getting these four stages right is key
To make garlic high-quality, high-yielding and early to market, you must get the following four stages right: The sprouting stage: harvested garlic seed remains dormant for a certain period. Therefore, 10 days before planting, the selected garlic seed should be placed in a cool spot and covered with fine sand or loess. Before sowing, soak it in well water for 12 hours. This not only brings germination forward by 2-3 days, but also gives even, sturdy growth. The soil preparation stage: garlic likes moist sandy soil; other loess and clay soils can also be planted as long as they are broken up. The
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Getting the five key steps right in Gastrodia elata cultivation can effectively increase yield
To achieve stable and high yields of Gastrodia elata, the first thing is to get the five pre-planting steps right: First, choose the site. Gastrodia elata cultivation can be adapted to local conditions, whether indoors, in air-raid shelters, semi-basements, or chicken coops. Because Gastrodia elata likes dark, damp, and cool environments, choose places with good ventilation and shade as much as possible, with semi-basements and outdoor trenches giving the best results. You can lay a layer of bricks before use, or increase the thickness of the bottom sand layer to enhance its water permeability. Second, if the indoor floor is concrete, use high-quality Armillaria mellea fungal material (spawn). Armillaria mellea fungal material
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September is exactly the right time to plant honeysuckle
Cutting propagation: Carry out cuttings in early spring before the new buds sprout, or in autumn from September to October. The seedbed should be close to a water source, with the soil deeply plowed and plenty of base fertilizer applied. Make raised beds 1.3 m wide. Select robust, pest- and disease-free 1- to 2-year-old branches, cut them into cuttings about 33 cm long, and remove the lower leaves. Then open horizontal trenches on the bed at a row spacing of 27-30 cm, with the trench depth depending on the length of the cuttings. Place 10-15 cuttings in each trench, bury 2/3 of each cutting in the soil, and firm the soil after filling.
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Garlic sowing time should not be advanced; mastering the right sowing time is key
Garlic prefers cool conditions and has a dormant characteristic. If sown too early, the emergence time is prolonged, and after emergence the temperature cannot drop, so the leaves tend to turn yellow and form weak seedlings, ultimately affecting quality and yield. If sown too late, before overwintering the seedlings are small and have weak cold resistance, and the following year they easily form large-headed garlic. By summarizing the experience of growers and the author's trials, it is recommended that garlic in our province be sown in late September. At this time the garlic dormancy period has passed, and 13 days after sowing the seedlings can emerge uniformly. After emergence, the seedlings are in the cool autumn season, which is favorable for their growth, and before overwintering they can grow enough 6 leaves, with enhanced cold resistance.
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How to control the Euonymus leafroller moth at the right time?
The Euonymus leafroller moth, also known as the Euonymus moth, is one of the earlier leaf-eating pests to harm garden plants. After several years of observation, the author found that in the Xi'an area its larvae appear in late March, mainly harming plants such as Euonymus japonicus (evergreen euonymus), Euonymus bungeanus (winterberry euonymus), and Euonymus fortunei (climbing euonymus). In severe cases they eat all the leaves, affecting the ornamental effect. When low-instar larvae are found causing damage, spray evenly with 50% phoxim emulsifiable concentrate or 40% omethoate emulsifiable concentrate at 1000 times dilution, or with 2.5 deltamethrin emulsifiable concentrate at 2000 times dilution; the control effect is very good.
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There's a right way to feed rabbits: keep these three dos and three don'ts in mind
Feed a complete mixed ration. The nutrient composition of a rabbit's daily ration is: 10% crude protein and 10% crude fiber, 5% fat, 2800 kcal of digestible energy per kilogram of ration, and 10% amino acids. If there is no way to feed a complete mixed feed, appropriately add concentrated feeds such as soybeans, soybean cake, wheat bran and corn, along with succulent feeds such as carrots. Feed heavily at night. Rabbits have a strong tendency to eat at night, and nighttime intake can account for more than 75% of their total daily intake. Therefore, provide rabbits with enough feed and drinking water at night. Change feed gradually. When one kind of feed has been fed for a long time, the rabbit has
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Black locust is easy to establish when planted in autumn, and autumn is exactly the right season for planting
In the past dozen years or so, spring drought has been severe in Lincheng County, with temperatures rising quickly and soil temperatures rising slowly. Especially after newly planted black locust seedlings are watered, the soil temperature remains low for a long time, causing the aboveground parts to sprout and grow while the root system recovers slowly, which reduces the survival rate of black locust. In autumn, by contrast, temperatures gradually drop, transpiration is lower, soil moisture content is relatively stable, and black locust seedlings have accumulated relatively rich nutrients. Tree roots have no natural dormant period, and when the soil temperature is still high, the roots of black locust planted in autumn can still resume growth. As long as the winter frozen soil layer is not thick,
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What are the bright red commercial pears? Detailed introduction to three varieties
The following three bright red commercial pears were bred through cooperation between China and New Zealand, and are second-generation superior varieties following Hongxiangsu. 1. Mantianhong: ripens in mid-September, average single fruit weight 294 grams, large ones 394 grams, nearly round or oblate, the entire fruit surface is deep red and brightly colored, looking like a red apple, flesh white, flesh crisp, juicy and sweet, top quality, soluble solids content 12%, strongly productive. 2. Meirensu: ripens in mid-September, fruit weight generally around 200 grams, maximum 350 grams,
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How to create the right environmental conditions for growing-finishing pigs (Part 1)
Intensive pig production is carried out under high-density housed conditions, and the microclimate inside the pig house is the main environmental condition. The microclimate of a pig house includes: temperature, humidity, wind speed, gases, sound, and so on. These environmental factors all directly affect the weight gain rate, feed utilization rate and ultimately the economic benefits of pigs. 1. Suitable temperature and humidity Pigs have a poor ability to regulate their own body temperature; they have only very few sweat glands that can help regulate it in hot weather, and only very little hair coat to resist the cold of winter. Therefore, pig houses must have good heat insulation and warmth retention, and
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Cotton topping must be done at the right time and promptly; seizing the moment is key
Cotton has an indeterminate growth habit. Under certain temperature conditions, the terminal bud keeps growing and extending, and continuously differentiates new stems, leaves and fruiting branches. Topping is the manual removal of the terminal bud so that it no longer produces new fruiting branches, allowing the vast majority of bolls to open before frost. Therefore, this is a key operation for artificially regulating the cotton growth period. Before topping, the cotton plant has apical dominance, with water and nutrients supplied preferentially to the terminal bud; after topping, they are supplied preferentially to the organs growing and developing fastest. It can thus be seen that topping affects the transport and distribution of nutrients in the cotton plant, so
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