How to direct sow mung beans in summer? Latest technique and method tutorial
Mung beans are a very important minor grain crop in China, with very high nutritional value, and are a crop that combines both food and medicinal uses. They have effects such as cooling and relieving summer heat, and after entering summer, mung beans can still be sown and planted. Summer mung bean planting is mainly based on direct sowing, so how exactly should it be done? Below, the editor brings you the summer direct sowing technique for mung beans, let's take a look!
1. Seed selection and land preparation
A good variety is the key to growing high-quality, high-yield mung beans. When selecting a variety, we should choose excellent varieties that are upright, compact, robust in growth, strong in branching ability, and not prone to lodging, such as Lulu No. 1. Then the soil must be well chosen; soil selection is also very important, and the soil should have good drainage and irrigation capacity and be loose and soft. After selecting the soil, carry out land preparation by deep plowing and leveling the soil, and apply about 1800kg of base fertilizer.
2. Appropriately early sowing
The sowing time for summer mung beans should be appropriately early, because due to summer weather and other factors, appropriately early sowing is directly proportional to yield. The sowing time is best in early June, and the sowing rate should be controlled according to the planting area. Generally, about 2kg is sown per mu, and before sowing, we also need to dig the sowing holes. Keep the hole depth at about 4 cm, control the row spacing at about 45 cm, then sow and cover with soil, and water appropriately to promote germination.
3. Field management
Compared with other crops, mung beans have a relatively short growth period. Therefore, our management work must be appropriately advanced, and thinning should begin when the second compound leaf appears on the mung bean seedlings. Control the plant spacing at 12cm, and keep 10,000 plants per mu. Then during the mung bean seedling stage, some nitrogen fertilizer can be appropriately applied as a top dressing, mainly urea, to ensure robust growth of the mung beans. Note that mung bean fields are prone to weed damage, so weed control must be done well when the plants produce 1 or 2 compound leaves and before budding.
4. Pest and disease control
Pest and disease control is an indispensable task when planting mung beans in summer. Common pests and diseases of mung beans include leaf spot, aphids, bean pod borers, and so on. These pests and diseases are all very harmful to mung beans and will damage different growing parts of the mung beans. This causes mung bean yield and quality to be very seriously affected. Therefore, we must pay close attention, and when symptoms appear, we must identify the specific pest or disease and then take corresponding measures.
5. Timely harvest
As just mentioned, the growth period of mung beans is relatively short, so we need to frequently observe the growth of the mung beans. When the mung bean pods turn black, it means the mung beans have matured, and at this time we should harvest them promptly. We should reasonably adjust the harvesting method according to the mung bean variety. In general, harvesting is mainly done in stages; for some varieties that easily burst their pods, a one-time harvest can be carried out when 4/5 of the pods have turned black.
The above is a brief introduction to the summer direct sowing technique for mung beans. The yield of mung beans is relatively high, but we also need to do a good job in management to ensure the normal growth of mung beans. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and we hope it can help everyone!