Introduction: It's the season of growing sweet potatoes again, when and how to plant sweet potatoes? Just look at the rural proverbs
Temperatures began to get warmer as the seasons changed, and while cold air still came from time to time, overall temperatures have returned to the annual spring plowing season. This also includes sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes have high yields and high economic benefits, which is a very popular crop, when will sweet potatoes be planted? How is it grown and managed? In fact, the rural saying about growing sweet potatoes is not small, and it can be clearly known through the description of this saying.
Valley rain planted sweet potato seedlings, a tree can harvest a large basket, valley rain before and after planting sweet potatoes, it is best not to spend the summer;
As the saying goes, before and after the rain in the valley, plant melons and beans. Qingming cut off the rain, valley rain breaks frost. The chance of a cold wave coming after the valley rain festival will be drastically reduced. The weather begins to get warmer, rainfall begins to increase significantly with the valley rain, and the moisture of the farmland will become better and better. This festival is also the planting season, which also includes crops: sweet potatoes, according to the saying, sweet potatoes are planted before and after the valley rains, sweet potatoes are not only easy to survive and grow well, but also produce a lot, and one tree can bear a lot of fruit.
Due to the difference in region, the temperature rises in the morning and evening will also be different, but the planting of sweet potatoes is to be carried out before and after the valley rain, there is an old saying: sweet potatoes are not clever, as long as the seedlings are planted early, which means that sweet potato transplanting should be carried out early and not late, can be carried out before the valley rain, can also be transplanted after the valley rain, but at the latest can not exceed the summer festival. After the summer, the temperature will be even higher, which is extremely unfavorable for the survival and growth of sweet potatoes, and the yield will also decline significantly.
Waterlogged sweet potatoes, ten kinds of nine stubble blind;
Different plants have different growth habits, some like sufficient light, warm and humid growth environment, some like a relatively arid soil environment, sweet potato is a more drought-tolerant crop, the nature of drought does not like flood, so when planting to choose a flat or slightly higher plot. Not suitable for planting in low-lying places, low-lying plots are easy to produce water, the soil will become too wet and muddy, such a growing environment is not liked by sweet potatoes. Mild will lead to a reduction in sweet potato production, and even a severe harvest, so the choice of plot when growing sweet potatoes is also very important.
Sweet potatoes to eat, soil to dig a foot;
Sweet potatoes are tuber-type crops, and the degree of loose and fertile soil depends on the amount of yield. There is a saying in the countryside that sweet potatoes should be eaten, and the soil should be dug a foot. This means that before transplanting sweet potatoes, the plot where sweet potatoes are planted should be thoroughly turned over, and the deep soil is not only more moisture but also more loose and breathable, which is very conducive to sweet potatoes according to the potatoes. Fertilizing is carried out at the time of deep ploughing, as the saying goes, a sweet potato with a handful of ash and a large pile of sweet potatoes. The ash mentioned here refers to the grass and wood ash after the straw burning, and the grass and wood ash rich in potassium fertilizer not only has the effect of sterilization, but also has a good role in promoting the growth of sweet potato rhizomes, which can play a role in increasing yield.
Horizontally planted sweet potatoes with vertical onions;
Sweet potato is a very easy to survive crop, the soil is too dry season, transplant sweet potato, will transplant a tree, pour a scoop of water to survive, also known as a sweet potato a scoop of water. Sweet potatoes are grown horizontally, which is the opposite of the vertical planting method of growing green onions. There are many ways to plant sweet potatoes, including upright planting, oblique planting, horizontal planting, and upside down. However, among so many transplanting methods, the horizontal planting method is the most widespread, which is more conducive to the rooting and survival of sweet potatoes due to more contact with the soil, and also has a good role in promoting yield.
If sweet potatoes want to have high yields, the steps of controlling prosperity are indispensable;
Sweet potato management during growth is also indispensable, one of which is to turn the vine, for the sweet potato in the end whether to turn the vine folk sayings are also quite a lot, but in general, the turning vine for the sweet potato production does have a certain help effect. There are also people who think that the sweet potatoes planted in barren, arid plots, generally do not need to turn the vine, which also stems from the fact that due to the dry environment, it is difficult for sweet potatoes to grow more gas roots during the growth period, so there is no need to turn the vine, and the purpose of turning the vine is actually to prevent the gas roots of the sweet potato vines from taking root, so that the sweet potato nutrition will be dispersed, and there will be many small sweet potatoes at that time, but there are very few really large sweet potatoes. Therefore, for the plots with fertile soil and abundant rainfall, the sweet potato vines still have to be turned.
High ridge knot potato, deep water raising big fish;
When sweet potatoes are transplanted, if you take the way of ridge raising and let the sweet potatoes grow on high ridges, this planting method will be very different from planting on the flat ground, and the yield will be very different. High ridge cultivation allows sweet potatoes to receive more light and photosynthesis is stronger. Moreover, the existence of high ridges also allows sweet potatoes to avoid waterlogging caused by stagnant water, and the yield of sweet potatoes will increase by reducing humidity, in addition to harvesting, such planting methods are more conducive to harvesting.
There are many folk sayings and agricultural proverbs about growing sweet potatoes, and the sayings are approaching, what are the sayings and old sayings about growing sweet potatoes in your rural hometown? Welcome to add a message.