How are edible lilies grown in ornamental horticulture?

How to grow edible lilies in ornamental horticulture

I. Product advantages and market prospects

The lily is a variety shared for medicinal, food and ornamental use; it can be used medicinally, for ornament, and eaten as a vegetable. Lilies are rich in nutrients and delicious in taste, and can be made into more than 300 recipes. After planting, besides being sold on the market, they can be dug up at any time and supplied year-round. Lilies are highly adaptable and can be cultivated all over the country, with flexible and varied cultivation methods. Lilies are by nature shade-loving and dislike strong light, so they can be intercropped with many crops such as trees, fruit trees, mulberry, grapes, corn, sorghum and millet, and can also be planted at field edges, beside ditches, in front of and behind houses, and in courtyards. At the same time, the spaces of living rooms, balconies and parlors can be used to grow pollution-free green and innocuous vegetables with soilless substrate cultivation. Edible lilies and their flower buds are high-grade vegetables. Every 500 grams of bulbs can stir-fry two plates of food; hotels can sell each plate for more than 2.5 yuan, and every 500 grams of bulbs can sell for 5 yuan; the yield per mu is 1,500-2,500 kg, worth 15,000-25,000 yuan. Making dishes with flower buds is a delicious delicacy; flower buds sell for 6-8 yuan per 500 grams, the yield of flower buds per mu is more than 500 kg, worth 6,000-8,000 yuan. After the flowers open, fresh flowers can be sold directly; each stem of fresh flowers can sell for more than 1 yuan, and each mu can produce 2,000-5,000 flowers, worth 3,000-6,000 yuan. The lily is a treasure from top to bottom; using soilless cultivation technology can quickly and conveniently expand the lily industry, and it is a road to wealth.

II. Yield and benefits

1. Early-stage costs. Land rent is 300 yuan/mu; seed usage is 200-300 kg/mu, with a market price of 20 yuan per kg, so seed input is 4,000-6,000 yuan/mu; using 3-4 bags of compound fertilizer, 200 yuan/bag (organic fertilizer may be applied appropriately), 600-800 yuan/mu, for a total early-stage input of 4,900-7,100 yuan/mu.

2. Management costs. If the planting area is large, workers can be hired for management (land preparation, planting, spraying, weeding, harvesting, etc.; each mu requires 10 work hours, 100 yuan/worker, subtotal: 1,000 yuan); pesticide costs are 200 yuan/mu. Total 1,200 yuan/mu.

3. Output value per mu. With proper management, the yield per mu can reach 800-1,200 kg; calculated at a fresh lily purchase price of 16-30 yuan/kg, the output value is 12,800-36,000 yuan

4. Profit analysis. Calculated at a purchase price of 16 yuan/kg, the lowest yield gives a net profit per mu of 6,700 yuan (output value per mu 12,800 yuan, total input cost 6,100 yuan). Calculated at a purchase price of 30 yuan/kg, the highest yield gives a net profit per mu of 27,700 yuan (output value per mu 36,000 yuan, total input cost 8,300 yuan).