Ginger cultivation: How can ginger cultivation achieve twice the result with half the effort?

In ginger cultivation, if you want to achieve twice the result with half the effort, you can choose pollution-free cultivation, which is not only beneficial to the growth and development of ginger, but can also increase your own economic returns. You should know that people's lives are getting better and better now, and the demand for green food is also increasing. Pollution-free cultivation has also become a hot topic in the market, and the cultivation methods are mostly similar, but vegetables grown without pollution sell at a higher price and are deeply welcomed by the market. With similar cultivation, the economic returns are double. Isn't that what an idiom would describe as twice the result with half the effort? So, how should ginger be cultivated without pollution to achieve twice the result with half the effort?

Pollution-free ginger cultivation techniques

1. Plot selection: atmospheric environmental quality, irrigation water quality, soil

Choose a planting site with deep and fertile soil, rich in organic matter, and a pH value of 6 to 7, slightly acidic. Of course, you also need an area where the planting site drains well and is convenient for irrigation, with a previous crop of garlic or a grain field plot. The biggest taboo for pollution-free cultivation is the presence of "three wastes" pollution, so it must be far away from polluted areas.

2. Variety selection.

According to local planting habits, choose varieties that are disease-free, have strong disease resistance, and high economic value. This helps increase the survival rate of ginger and increase ginger yield.

3. Seed selection

Choose ginger that had no disease in the previous year as ginger seed, wash off the soil with clean water, and select a portion of ginger pieces as ginger seed. You must select plump, glossy, disease-free ginger pieces that are bright yellow and full of vitality, with plump and round buds. Ginger pieces that are frozen and rotten or whose flesh is not firm must be removed immediately. After selecting the ginger seed, carry out sprouting. You can soak the ginger seed in a 0.5% potassium permanganate solution for half an hour to promote sprouting.

4. Land preparation and fertilization

Half a month after planting ginger, the land should be deeply plowed, and 5,000 kg of decomposed barnyard manure should be fully applied. When sowing, ridges should also be made and seed fertilizer applied. Apply 100 kg of cake fertilizer, 15 kg of potassium sulfate compound fertilizer, 3 kg of zinc fertilizer, and 2 kg of borax per mu.

5. Reasonable planting

Before sowing, break the successfully sprouted whole ginger into small seed pieces of 70 to 80 grams. Each small seed piece should retain only the strongest bud. After dipping the cut surface in plant ash, plant it. When planting, ensure that the ginger buds are perpendicular to the row direction and lie flat in the sowing furrow, keeping the ginger buds aligned at the top but not at the bottom, and they must also be in a straight line. After that, cover with 4 cm of soil, which helps the ginger emerge neatly and robustly.

Here, the editor emphasizes one more point: in the early seedling stage of ginger, just keep the ground moist. Watering should mainly be done in small amounts. Never use flood irrigation. During the rainy season, timely drainage measures must be taken.

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