How to grow sweet potatoes correctly? Detailed cultivation method sharing
Selecting suitable varieties, creating a suitable growth environment, timely watering and fertilization, and controlling pests and diseases are important measures for sweet potato production. Next, I'll tell you how to grow sweet potatoes.
1.Seed selection: select good varieties that are suitable for local meteorology and soil quality. Sweet potatoes with red skin and sweet potatoes with white skin are more common sweet potatoes, and you can choose them according to your personal preferences and planting area.
2.Land preparation: Choose loose, well-drained soil. Sweet potatoes prefer warm, fertile soil with a pH of 55~6.5。Before sowing, the surrounding weeds and stones should be cleared, and then properly deepened, which can improve the structure and ventilation performance of the soil.
3.Cultivation method: There are two cultivation methods for sweet potato: whole seedling planting and cutting. Whole potato transplanting is to bury the whole block of sweet potato in the soil so that it can take root and sprout; The method of cutting vines is to cut off a part of the sweet potato vines and insert them in the soil, leaving a certain number of leaves on the ground.
4.Irrigation and fertilizer: Sweet potatoes have a high demand for water, especially at seedling stage and potato age. Let the land be wet, but not too wet and not too wet. In the early stages of the crop, organic or whole fertilizer can be applied to supply sweet potatoes.
5.Build a shelf: Sweet potato vines will spread, so when planting, you can use shelves or bamboo to support them, so that the sweet potato vines do not fall to the ground, so as to reduce the incidence of pests and diseases.
6.Pest prevention: Frequent inspections of sweet potato seedlings and prevention of some common pests in sweet potatoes such as sweet potato aphids and sweet potato brown spot disease. Reasonable crop rotation systems can be used to spray biological and chemical pesticides.
7.Harvesting and storage: Sweet potatoes typically grow in a cycle of 100 to 120 days. After harvesting, it is dried and stored. A well-ventilated place with suitable humidity should be selected and stored in shaded conditions to increase the shelf life of the product.
Therefore, selecting suitable varieties, creating a suitable growth environment, timely watering and fertilization, and controlling pests and diseases are important measures for sweet potato production. Only by adopting the above methods can the high yield and high quality of sweet potato be improved.