The time to plant beans is March-April in spring or August-September in fall every year, and the planting method includes choosing soil, sowing seeds, and field management.
1, choose the soil
Spring March-April or fall August-September every year when planting beans need to choose loose fertile, easy drainage and irrigation of the plot, before planting the need to rectify the ground, the soil for deep turning, remove the weeds and debris around the soil, but also need to be applied to the soil in the amount of basal fertilizer in order to enhance the soil's fertility, planting also need to complete the ridge before The operation is also completed before planting.
2, sowing
Annual spring in March-April or fall in August-September planting tank beans need to choose the appropriate varieties, in accordance with the plant spacing of 30 to 32 cm, in each pit sowing three or four seeds, planting is completed need to be covered with a layer of 3 cm of thin soil, and appropriate watering, to ensure that the soil is in a slightly moist state.
3, field management
After the planting of spring March-April or fall August-September every year, according to its growth status, need to seedling replenishment, each hole to retain two to three healthy seedlings can be, for the lack of seedlings, you can move seedlings in a timely manner, replenishment, and also need to remove weeds, to ensure that the healthy growth of the tank beans.
Notes on planting cowpeas
1, choose good seeds
Nowadays, there are dozens of cowpea varieties without hundreds of them, but each cowpea has its own advantages, such as high yield, good quality, good resistance to disease and so on, and these are all according to the environment of the place. In fact, cowpea varieties are all very good, only in different environments growth performance is not the same, so we need to choose according to the local climate, followed by attention to understand the market situation.
2, seed treatment
Cowpea seeds are picked from the mature beans, so we need to treat the seeds before planting, first of all, we will take out the seeds from the pods, remove impurities, then put the seeds into the medicinal water to soak for about twenty minutes to fish out, rinse with water three or four times, drain the water, put in a suitable temperature for germination, and so on. Most of the seeds can be sown in the ground after germination, which can greatly improve the seedling rate, while enhancing the resistance of the seeds.