How to Grow Mint? Master Mint Growing Methods in One Article
How to grow mint? Please introduce the growing methods. Mint dispels various heat conditions, disperses wind and promotes sweating, clears the head and eyes, and benefits the throat. It treats common cold with headache, loss of voice, throat discomfort, mild wind and infantile convulsions with hidden pain, etc. Mint is suitable for growing in places with a mild climate, abundant sunlight, moist soil, and loose, fertile, well-drained soil. Mint is not suitable...
How to grow mint? Please introduce the growing methodsMint dispels various heat conditions, disperses wind and promotes sweating, clears the head and eyes, and benefits the throat. It treats common cold with headache, loss of voice, throat discomfort, mild wind and infantile convulsions with hidden pain, etc. Mint is suitable for growing in places with a mild climate, abundant sunlight, moist soil, and loose, fertile, well-drained soil. Mint is not suitable for continuous cropping, otherwise the plants grow poorly, pests and diseases are more frequent, and both yield and quality are low. Mint is mainly propagated by rhizomes, and can also be propagated by cuttings. The following introduces mint growing methods for reference:
I. Rhizome propagation:It is best to plant at the end of winter around the Great Cold period. First, spread barnyard manure on the chosen ground, about 1500 kg per mu, and plow it into the soil as base fertilizer, plowing to a depth of about 0.8-1 chi, then break up the soil finely, rake it level, and open 4-chi-wide seedbeds with 8-cun-deep drainage ditches. Then, select robust, plump, white rhizomes and cut them into sections about 8 cun long, with each section required to have a new bud at its tip. On the prepared seedbed, open furrows for row sowing, 6 cun deep, with a furrow spacing of 0.8-1 chi. At a plant spacing of 6-8 cun, place the cut sections upright in the sowing furrows, taking care that the tip of each section must protrude about 1 cun above the soil. After placing each furrow, cover with soil and press firm, then open the second planting furrow. After planting, water immediately or irrigate by flooding, and in about half a month roots will form and new buds will begin to sprout. Use 75 kg of seed per mu.
II. Cutting propagation:Generally in May-June, select thick aboveground stems, remove the tips, cut them into 8-cun-long sections, and at a plant spacing of 6 cun and row spacing of 8 cun, insert them obliquely into the prepared seedbed, water promptly, and keep the soil moist at all times; they will take root in about 15 days. This method has a low survival rate, and both yield and quality are inferior to rhizome propagation. Therefore, it is generally not used.
III. Field management:From seedling emergence until the rows close, weeds should be removed frequently. If drought occurs, water timely to keep the soil moist. If the soil becomes compacted, loosen it at any time. When the seedlings grow to 5-6 cun, apply the first fertilizer, using 8 kg of urea and 1500 kg of night soil per mu, and combine with watering to aid absorption. By the Start of Summer solar term, the first mint harvest can be made.
Immediately after harvesting, apply fertilizer, spreading 12 kg of urea per mu beneath the plants, then irrigate and weed. When the new seedlings grow to 3-4 cun high, apply finely crushed oil cake again and water timely (if the rainy season occurs, watering may be omitted). Around the Start of Autumn, harvest the second crop of mint. After harvesting, still increase fertilizer application appropriately as above. After the Descent of Frost, harvest the third crop. At this time, apply farmyard manure to protect the perennial roots through winter, so they sprout easily the following spring.
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