One, sowing seedlings
1, the temperature stabilized at 15 ℃ or more can be sown (generally in early April), ground planting can be combined with deep turning every square meter of high-quality farmyard manure 5 kg, scale phosphate fertilizer 0.1 kilograms, and according to the conditions of the ground discretionary application of fungicide and pesticides, and then flatten the land to make a 0.8 - 1 meter wide raised beds. Then level the land to make 0.8-1 meter wide raised beds. Potted plants can refer to individual flower requirements loam soil there is a certain fertility and reduce the propagation of pests and diseases can be cultivated after the soil disposal.
2, watering before sowing, water seepage inserted into the seed (both available seedling tray, seedbed, can also be used in large-caliber pots), the density of 2 cm x 2 cm, covered with fine sandy soil, covered with heat preservation moisturizing plastic film (high temperatures can be covered with wet straw), the emergence of seedlings in a timely manner after weeding when the seedling height of 15 cm high and low when planting.
Two, planting and management
1, choose the caliber of 25 cm up and down pots filled with farmyard manure mixed with fluffy fertile garden soil, according to the soil than the seedling stems slightly upward traces of 0.5-1 cm depth of planting, compaction of the roots, watering the roots of 1 time.
2, in the growth period of 1 time fast-acting nitrogen fertilizer, in the early branching of timely loosening and weeding, the current harvest every 1 chase 1 nitrogen fertilizer, and discretionary phosphorus, potassium fertilizer, in order to enhance the growth and progress of yield.
Three, harvesting and processing
The basil orchid fragrance leaves harvested before flowering is appropriate.
If the sale of fresh products, can be every 50-10 pieces of a stack with a fine soft line bundled neatly sold to the market, but also other measures can be used to sell. If the dry sale, can be harvested after the fresh piece of sun exposure, or into the oven or drying room in the temperature of about 40 ℃ drying, conducive to the preservation of color and aroma, dry properly packed into the beautiful bag sealed and sold. Basil height 60-70 centimeters, smooth or based on smooth vertical annual herbs. The whole grass has a strong flavor, the stem is pure four-angled, the plant green, sometimes purple. Leaves opposite elliptic, 2.5-7.5 cm long, entire or slightly serrate, petiole long, gray-green below, dark oil cell spots. On the terminal spikelike whorls of scattered inflorescences, also distant from the growth of racemose flowers, 6-8 flowers in whorls, with small white or reddish flowers. The fruit is a nutlet with ovoid, small and basal seeds. Seeds encounter moisture expanding mucilaginous envelopes.
The basil on the soil no strict choice, in dry flat fertile soil, sunny places to plant the best. Tropical or subtropical places in February-March to prepare the ground, make a border width of 60-75 cm, strip sowing, cage soil, between the plants about 20 cm. 3-4 back to the plow weeding, until the fall, can be sown several times. When preparing the ground, apply compost and lime, and apply nitrogen fertilizer and potash after the first leaf picking. Another seed collection in the case of yellowing flower stalks, mowed from the stem, after drying, the seeds will be knocked down.