Hairy taro planting time and methods are as follows:

1, planting time: taro is planted in the spring and harvested in the fall. It is best to plant in early spring, that is, from January to March. Although it is now the fall harvest season, but those who planted early, fast harvesting crops can be harvested at the end of August and summer, late planting will not be harvested until October.

2, planting method: sowing as far as possible to choose no pests and diseases, no wound taro. First of all, the taro seeds are coated in the sun for 3-4 days, and then evenly coated indoors, and then coated with wet sand on it. The room temperature is controlled at about 23℃, and about 3-4 centimeters of shoots can be grown after about a month. Planting can be done when the outdoor temperature stabilizes at about 12℃. When planting, the planting spacing is about 35 centimeters, and about 5,000 plants are planted per mu.

The field management of taro

Timely break the film, release seedlings. Hairy taro 20 ~ 25 days after sowing to seedlings, in order to prevent high-temperature burn seedlings, must be timely broken film, seedling, and pay attention to the film mouth to be small, surrounded by soil sealing. Seedling period generally do not water, if the lack of water is serious can be appropriate to water a small water. mid-June to early July. Plants into the vigorous growth period, per mu of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium three yuan compound fertilizer 30 ~ 40 kg, and watering, this period is the hairy taro need more fertilizer and water period, every 3 ~ 4 days need to be watered, always keep the soil moist.

The use of two soil method, the first in mid-July, all the leaf buds into the soil, not see the light, soil thickness of 15 to 20 cm; the second in early August, will be sent out of all the leaves into the soil, pay attention to the soil do not pedal, in order to prevent the soil from affecting the sub taro expansion, in case of rain affects the cultivation of the soil should be timely supplementary cultivation.