Burdock root a Chinese medicine name, is the root of burdock. It is fleshy, relatively thick, usually more than 15 centimeters long and about 2 centimeters in diameter. The color is pale purplish-red or purplish-red, and its leaves are broadly ovate during growth, 30 centimeters long and 21 centimeters wide. Flowers are in paniculate corymbs with ovoid involucres. The flowering and fruiting period is usually between June and September. It prefers warm environments, but is also hardy and can tolerate temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius. Like wet, but fear of waterlogging, rainy days pay attention to timely drainage.

Two, burdock how to plant

1, the whole land treatment: planting time to choose fertile soil, loose, deep soil plots. First fertilizer treatment, more applied farmyard manure, urea fertilizer and calcium superphosphate, directly sprinkled on the surface of the soil, sprinkled after the deep turning treatment.

2, treatment of seeds: planting seeds must be selected without pests and diseases, full. Before sowing a day or two of drying, and then put in warm water to soak for an hour or two, after drying can be sown.

3, planting into the soil: sowing can be carried out in two ways, strip sowing method and hole sowing method. Strip sowing open two or three centimeters deep ditch, seeds scattered in the ditch on the line. Hole sowing each hole to put four to six seeds, sowing mulch compression can be. Later, when the seedlings grow two or three leaves in time to inter-seedling planting.