A Detailed Guide to the Latest Common Planting Methods in Vegetable Greenhouses
Vegetable greenhouse planting is a growing method with many advantages, and it can effectively reduce various problems that easily arise during the growing process. For example, droughts, waterlogging, and so on. Compared with open-field cultivation, it can better ensure growing stability and yield. Vegetable greenhouses have also given rise to several different planting methods, so what exactly are they? Below, the editor brings you the common planting methods for vegetable greenhouses. Let's take a look!
1. Off-season cultivation
Off-season cultivation is the most common planting method in greenhouse growing. Because in traditional open-field cultivation, due to weather, temperature, and various other factors, some vegetables can only be planted in specific seasons. Greenhouses, however, can regulate the growing environment well, allowing most vegetables to be planted in any season. For example, we can grow some autumn vegetables in summer; we only need to provide good shading measures and lower the temperature inside the greenhouse. In addition, using off-season cultivation can meet the market demand for various vegetables in different seasons and improve growing returns.
2. Blanching cultivation
Blanching cultivation is a cultivation method that has emerged in recent years. Blanching cultivation can improve the taste of vegetables and enhance their quality, and once it reached the market it was welcomed by many people. The main principle of blanching cultivation is that after vegetables have grown normally in a greenhouse for a period of time, the lighting is adjusted and the environment is set to semi-dark or completely dark, and then humidity is controlled well. Vegetables grown through blanching cultivation are tender and delicious, have relatively high nutritional value, and their chlorophyll will also decrease somewhat. The most common vegetables for blanching cultivation include celery, chives, and so on.
3. Forcing cultivation
Forcing cultivation is actually somewhat similar to off-season cultivation, but the difference is that the main purpose of forcing cultivation is to meet the demand for some vegetables during the off-season. For example, for some vegetables suited to growing in high-temperature environments such as summer, we can use forcing cultivation to grow them in winter and spring. Using the heat-retaining performance of greenhouses to promote vegetable growth can both meet off-season demand and bring vegetables to market earlier, increasing economic income and expanding one's growing returns. Forcing cultivation is suitable for growing cold-tolerant vegetables that like to grow in warm environments.
4. Soilless cultivation
A soilless cultivation method that has emerged in recent years is favored by many growers. Soilless cultivation has low investment, relatively high yield, and can ensure vegetable quality; it is also almost pollution-free green cultivation, and it reduces environmental pollution. Open-field cultivation, however, cannot do without soil, and soilless cultivation is very suitable for carrying out inside greenhouses. The most common soilless cultivation methods include water culture, nutrient solution cultivation, and so on. Soilless cultivation has further promoted the development of the growing industry, improved vegetable quality, and the variety of vegetables suitable for planting is also very large.
The above is a brief introduction to the common planting methods for vegetable greenhouses. The various planting methods derived from vegetable greenhouses have more advantages compared with open-field cultivation, so everyone can appropriately learn vegetable greenhouse planting techniques! That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. Thank you all for reading and supporting!