Lentils, also known as eyebrow beans, beans, its high nutritional value, but also has the medicinal value of spleen and moisture, more popular in the market, but also to attract more and more farmers to plant. So when to plant lentils? What are the planting methods? A look at it.

1, planting time

Lentils are generally cultivated in the open ground in the summer, usually in mid-January can be successively guaranteed, but different areas of the climate is not the same, so it is not the same sowing time, such as in the Yangtze River Basin lentil planting time in the May-July, and the planting time of the northern region of China is mostly carried out in June.

2, choose the seed sowing

Lentils according to its pod color can be divided into white lentils, green lentils and purple lentils, which green lentils pods flat thin, crisp; purple lentils and white lentils similar to the pods meat thick, cooked soft. Sowing combined with tilling per acre into the rotted farmyard manure 3000 kg as well as an appropriate amount of fertilizer as a base fertilizer, fertilizer should be mixed with the soil, in the raking level ground. Lentils are generally more direct seeding, take the method of open furrow or hole sowing, control the plant spacing in 35-50 cm, row spacing in 100-130 cm, generally 3-4 seeds per hole, after the emergence of seedlings in each hole to stay two plants.

3, field management

Lentil drought-tolerant, seedling watering, watering the amount of water in the stretching period and pods, generally in the stretching period need to be watered 1-2 times, pods every 10 days watering. After watering, we should timely plow and weed, combined with fertilizer, to prevent the fall of flowers and pods or futile growth, pre-flowering fertilizer should be less thin, after the flower pods period of fertilizer should be reapplied. Plowing should be shallow, a year to hurt the roots, pay attention to the reasonable combination of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, pay attention to the amount of nitrogen fertilizer. In the trailing before you can set up a frame, or trailing in a timely manner with a rope to lead the trailing on the frame, leading to make the stem trailing evenly distributed in the hedge, when the main trailing growth of 1.5 meters can be rectified and centering, to promote more lateral branches and lateral branches of the trailing, early flowering and pods.

4, pest control

Lentil diseases watering, pests mainly aphids and pod borers, aphids can be used to prevent and control imidacloprid and amidacloprid, in the use of the concentration should pay attention to. Pod borer to larvae to eat bean grains, when serious, the whole pod will eat empty, can take foliar spraying 20% permethrin 2500 times liquid or 50% fenitrothion 1000 times liquid prevention and control, weekly change, so as not to produce drug resistance.