A Detailed Guide to the Planting Methods and Planting Time of Job's Tears

Job's tears (Coix seed) often appears in our lives in the form of job's tears soup, job's tears porridge or job's tears powder. Its nutritional value is very high. At present, many of us have relatively heavy dampness in the body, which causes puffiness. In fact, sometimes it is not that you are fat, you are just heavy with dampness. Eating foods made from job's tears more often can remove dampness from the body and enhance immunity. Today let us take a look at what job's tears is, when it is planted, when it is harvested, and also how it is planted.

Planting Time

The planting time of job's tears is actually closely related to the climate, and there are many time periods for planting job's tears. Generally speaking, it can be planted from March to June every year. To be more specific, the earliest is from early March to mid-March every year, followed by late March to early April, then late April to early May, and the last sowing time is early June. That is to say, sowing cannot be earlier than March and also cannot be later than June. Too early or too late will affect the yield of job's tears.

Planting Methods

Seed selection and land preparation: When selecting job's tears seeds, special attention must be paid. Choose plump, glossy grains to keep as seed, or when buying seed, choose excellent varieties, that is, seeds with strong adaptability, strong resistance, and good yield and good quality. After selecting the seeds, land preparation must be carried out. There are two ways to prepare the land. The first is water cultivation land preparation, which is to first fill the field with water, then plow the field, and level it. The second is dry cultivation land preparation, which is to dig the soil, make ridges and open furrows, and set up a good drainage and irrigation system. Both methods require applying sufficient base fertilizer to ensure soil fertility.

Sowing method: Before sowing, seed treatment must be carried out. This means putting the seeds into a cloth bag without any writing on it, then soaking them in lime water. After one day, take the cloth bag out and rinse it several times with clean water. This helps increase the germination rate of the seeds, and then they can be sown. There are two sowing methods, namely water cultivation and dry cultivation. Water cultivation is just like transplanting rice seedlings, but job's tears does not need continuous irrigation into the field. After the soil dries, just dig furrows and make ridges. Dry cultivation is to sow at certain intervals on the ridges made earlier.

Field management: If thinning occurs in the field, seedlings should be replanted in time. Generally, when job's tears seedlings grow to five or six cm, one weeding and fertilization should be carried out. The second weeding should wait until they are fifteen to twenty cm. This time, fertilizer should also be applied. When the seedlings grow to about thirty-five cm, that is, when they bloom and form ears, topdressing should be carried out. Generally, farmyard manure or urea is applied, and measures to prevent lodging should be taken. Water is also crucial during the growth of job's tears. Generally, during germination there is more water, but during seedling growth, keep it as dry as possible. When forming ears, water should be replenished in time, so field moisture must be well controlled. Finally, in order to increase yield, we generally use artificial means to help job's tears pollinate and increase the ear-setting rate.

Timely harvesting: The season when job's tears matures is generally September, but the maturation time of each job's tears plant differs, and even the same plant may mature unevenly. Generally, when about eighty percent of the job's tears have changed color and hardened, they can basically be harvested. The cut job's tears need to be dried for three or four days before threshing. After threshing, they still need to be dried for a few days, then peeled and packed. At this point, harvesting is truly finished.

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