How to Grow Plantain: A Detailed Guide to Cultivation Techniques and Precautions

Perhaps some people have seen plantain and have taken plantain, so does anyone know how to grow plantain? Anyway, this editor does not know, so in order to satisfy everyone's curiosity about plantain cultivation techniques and precautions, this editor has put together the following materials for everyone's reference, so let's learn about it together with this editor.

How to Grow Plantain

1. The suitable sowing period for plantain seeds (Plantago asiatica) is late July, and the seedbed should first be placed under a trellis for gourds or Chinese yam. The seeding rate for the field is 40-50 grams per mu, and the seedbed area is 10 sq m. After leveling the seedbed, water it thoroughly, mix the seeds evenly with fine sand, sow them, then cover lightly with fine soil, and then cover with wet rice straw to retain moisture and help emergence. After 60% of the seedlings have emerged, remove the covering straw, then cover with a shade net to provide shade, cool the temperature and retain moisture for raising seedlings. The seedling age is 30-35 days, and strong seedlings with 4-5 fully expanded leaves are cultivated.

2. For the plantain seed crop rotation, it is best to choose idle land after the harvest of early symbiotic peanuts or autumn soybeans, or autumn idle fields after the early rice harvest. Spread 2000-3000 kg of cattle and pig pen manure per mu plus 40-50 kg of boron-containing compound fertilizer or 1 kg of borax as base fertilizer, plow, harrow and level the ground, then make beds 1.2 m wide and of unlimited length. The ditch is 30 cm wide and 20 cm deep. In autumn and winter droughts, irrigation is needed; in spring and summer with heavy rain, drainage is essential.

3. The suitable transplanting period for plantain seeds is late August to early September. Before transplanting, spray 150 grams of dinitroaniline per mu mixed with 50 kg of water on the surface soil to control weeds, and transplant on a cloudy afternoon before White Dew. Plant 4 rows per bed at a spacing of 30*20 cm, with one strong soil-bearing seedling per hole, planting 8500-9000 plants per mu, and after planting, water with rooting water containing 0.2% urea. On the second day after planting, if there is sunny and dry weather, irrigate with running water in the evening so that the bed is thoroughly wet.

Plantain Cultivation Techniques and Precautions

1. Cultivation techniques: If you want the plantain you grow to grow well, then you must pay attention to the temperature for plantain growth. The most suitable temperature for plantain growth is 15 to 25 degrees. At this temperature it can grow normally. Although it can still grow below 15 degrees, its growth speed is very slow. If low temperatures occur, try to keep it warm. However, plantain will stop growing, or even die, above 28 degrees, so we need to cool it down through physical means to reach the minimum living standard for plantain.

2. Precautions: During the entire growth period of plantain, a total of three weedings are needed. Basically, the weeding time and the fertilizing time are the same. Generally, fertilizing is carried out after weeding, which can reduce the loss of fertility. The purpose of each weeding is to regulate the temperature and humidity of the soil, so that the growing environment of plantain can reach a balance, and at the same time it can also enhance the plantain's own resistance.

The Difference Between Plantain and Dandelion

1. Plantain: Plantain is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant in the plant kingdom, phylum Angiosperms, class Dicotyledons, subclass Sympetalae, order Plantaginales, family Plantaginaceae, genus Plantago.

2. Dandelion: Dandelion is a perennial herbaceous plant in the plant kingdom, phylum Angiosperms, class Dicotyledons, subclass Sympetalae, order Campanulales, family Asteraceae, subfamily Liguliflorae, tribe Cichorieae, genus Taraxacum.

Plantain Disease and Pest Control

1. Plantain has extremely strong growth ability, and generally there are rarely diseases. Even if there are occasional diseases, a little treatment is enough. The most common diseases on plantain are powdery mildew and aphids. These two diseases also occur on many crops in our daily lives, so the treatment methods are also very common. If these symptoms appear, just pay a little attention.

2. We all know some of the general effects of plantain, so for some usual ailments, we can directly use plantain to treat them ourselves. But now wild plantain is being widely harvested, so many people are growing plantain.

So plantain cannot just be grown anywhere. It requires specialized cultivation techniques, and even with the techniques, it is not so easy to grow well, so everyone should not easily try to grow plantain, and this editor will not try such a thing either.