How to Grow Crown Daisy for High Yield? A Full Breakdown of Planting Time and Techniques

Every autumn is the season when fresh crown daisy hits the market, and today's development of greenhouse cultivation techniques allows this medicinal and edible plant with tender edible stems to be eaten all year round.So what are the planting times and techniques for high-yield crown daisy?

1. Basic facts about crown daisy

1. The origin of crown daisy

Crown daisy (Glebionis coronaria) is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant that can be eaten as a vegetable or used as medicine. It is also called tonghao, penghao, haocai, chrysanthemum greens, tanghao, haozigan, haozi, penghuacai, emperor's vegetable, tonghuacai (in Fujian and other places it is also called ecai and yicai), among other names. It is a plant native to the Mediterranean, and is now distributed in Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Hainan, Shijiazhuang in Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Jilin, Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces.

2. The value of crown daisy

Crown daisy is rich in vitamins, carotene, protein, trace elements and more. Eating it has effects such as calming the nerves and benefiting the brain, reducing swelling and promoting urination, clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, preventing constipation, stimulating appetite and beautifying the skin, and it has fairly good therapeutic effects on cough with copious phlegm, disharmony between the spleen and stomach, memory decline and habitual constipation.

However, it should be noted that people with diarrhea and spleen-stomach deficiency-cold generally should avoid eating it or eat less of it.

3. Crown daisy prices

At present, the price of crown daisy at the Jishou City Vegetable and Fruit Wholesale Market in Hunan Province is 3.9 yuan/kg, at the Changde Ganlu Temple Vegetable Wholesale Market it is 7.5 yuan/kg, and at the Wuhan Baishazhou Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market in Hubei it is 7.5 yuan/kg. So regional differences are also one of the reasons for differing prices.

2. What are the planting times and techniques for high-yield crown daisy?

Although crown daisy is not difficult to grow, achieving high yield requires mastering the right timing and techniques. The details are as follows:

1. Planting time for crown daisy

(1) Spring-planted crown daisy: sow from February to April, harvest from April to July;

(2) Autumn-planted crown daisy: sow from August to September, harvest from September to February of the following year;

(3) Winter-planted crown daisy: sow from October to November, harvest from December to April of the following year.

2. High-yield cultivation techniques for crown daisy

(1) Before sowing crown daisy, apply 1500 kg of decomposed organic fertilizer per mu as a base fertilizer, then proceed, and after 2-3 days level the soil, make beds and sow;

(2) Before sowing crown daisy seeds, the seeds need to be treated. Soak the seeds in warm water for 24 hours, take them out and place them in an environment of 15-20 degrees to sprout. When the seeds show white after 3-4 days, they can be sown. When sowing, the amount applied per mu is 3-4 kg. After sowing, water the soil thoroughly and cover with 0.5-1 cm of soil;

(3) Choose the appropriate crown daisy variety according to the region. Southern regions mainly grow large-leaf crown daisy, while northern regions mainly grow small-leaf crown daisy. Small-leaf varieties are suitable for dense planting, so the seeding rate is large, using 2-2.5 kg of seed per mu. Large-leaf varieties have many side branches and a wide spread, so the seeding rate is small, using about 1 kg of seed per mu;

(4) Generally, watering of crown daisy begins after the seedlings emerge. The amount and frequency of watering are determined by the moisture level of the soil. When the seedlings grow to about 10 cm, thin small-leaf varieties to a spacing of 3-5 cm between plants and rows, and thin large-leaf varieties to a spacing of about 20 cm, while removing weeds. In addition, apply a quick-acting nitrogen fertilizer 10-15 days before each harvest;

(5) During the cultivation of crown daisy, prevent and control the invasion of diseases and pests such as damping-off, leaf spot, sclerotinia and aphids, do the prevention work in advance, and for affected plants spray pesticides or remove them in time.

Because crown daisy is cold in nature, people with spleen-stomach deficiency-cold and similar conditions should eat less of it, but those with constipation or cough with copious phlegm can eat more. The above is all the content about crown daisy cultivation introduced to you by the Tutuliu website editors.