new Asparagus planting methods
Asparagus:
Scientific Name: Asparagus officinalis
Family: lily: Liliaceae
Asparagus is a herbaceous plant that may live for up to 15 years. It is a dichotomous plant with a 1: 1 male to female ratio.
The number of spurs in the male plant is greater than in the female plant, whereas the thickness of the stem in the female plant is substantially thicker than in the male plant.
The male plant has faster vegetative development than the female plant.
The male plant is much older than the female plant, which arrived much later.
It is a plant with a slender stem that can grow to be two meters long and long, needle-like leaves.
The new sprout dies off in late autumn, and early winter, then regrows in spring.
When asparagus is planted from seeds every year, the first cylindrical root appears and persists for three months before dying.
During this time, fleshy roots develop near the stem's base, while fibrous roots grow to store nutrients.
Sucrose is the primary substance in which it is kept.
Their fibrous roots also collect water and minerals from the earth.
Economic, nutritional, and medical importance.
- Asparagus is 94% water and contains protein, carbohydrates, minerals such as magnesium and potassium, and vitamins such as vitamins A, B2, and B1.
- It is used to treat rheumatism.
- -nutritious and rich in folic acid, which is essential during pregnancy;
- Asparagus is a sexual tonic that increases sexual capacity in those who have colds.
- Asparagus is an antibiotic that can be used to treat toothaches, gum infections, and throat infections.
- Due to the presence of vitamin A, it improves visual acuity and prevents night blindness.
- Asparagus is good for calming the nerves and improving appetite.
- Asparagus enhances liver function and cures infections of the colon and spleen.
- Asparagus helps to dissolve kidney and ureter stones and avoid dropsy.
- It helps remove salt from the body, and reduces water retention; it helps produce red blood cells.
The right atmosphere:
Asparagus is suitable for cool temperate climates during the production of spurs until the aerial stems begin to grow. Hence, the plant produces thick, low-fiber catalysts that are not branched. At the same time, the hot weather leads to the speed of elongation of the spurs, their branching, and the production of a strong, inedible vegetative group. Asparagus cultivation is good in cold areas in winter, so the plant can enter a dormant phase, leading to a good crop of spurs in the spring.
Suitable soil:
Asparagus cultivation succeeds in light, fertile lands, while heavy lands give poor production. In addition, asparagus grows successfully in saline or very high salinity soils compared to many other vegetable crops.
Reproduction method:
The asparagus plant multiplies by seed in the nursery, then is transferred to its permanent place after about ten months.
Preparing the soil for planting:
3. Preparing and planting the nursery:
Three carats are allotted to make a nursery that produces enough seedlings to plant an acre.
The soil of the nursery is well-plowed, and the ground has been softened. Then it is divided into 50 cm wide strips, and the seeds are planted individually on the tribal feathers of the line at a distance of 10 cm.
Then the seeds are irrigated, and the plants are irrigated regularly after germination.
Harmful weeds are eliminated, and suitable chemical fertilizer is added at 100 kg per feddan in November; irrigation is prohibited.
At the end of January, yellowing and drying of the vegetative system are noticed, so the plants are pinched, and the discs under the surface of the earth are removed in early February to be planted in their permanent place.
Preparing the permanent place and planting it:
The land is plowed twice with a shovel. First, municipal fertilizer is applied at a rate of 10-15 cubic meters per feddan before the final plow, then the land is planned with dimensions of 100–200 cm between every two lines, and the lines are deepened to form small trenches with a width of about 30 cm from the bottom and a depth of about 25 cm.
When you want to produce green asparagus, the trenches are close together, and when you want to have white asparagus, the distances between plants are shorter, and the dirt is piled on the discs on both sides.
The discs are planted at dimensions of 30–45 cm at the bottoms of the trenches, with the buds facing upwards, while the fleshy roots are located on the sides.
Then, the discs are covered with a layer of soil about 5 cm before each irrigation until they are leveled to the surface of the earth, preventing the discs' from rotting after planting.
Planting dates:
The seeds are planted in the nursery in March, and then the tablets are transferred in February to the permanent land.
Seed Quantity:
An acre needs about 8–12 thousand seedlings (disc) that produce 1-2 kg of seeds. The seeds must be soaked in water before planting for 3-5 days with daily renewal because the seeds are slow to germinate due to the hardness of their cover and the slow penetration of moisture into the seed embryo.
Post-transplant service operations
Weeding:
Harmful plants that grow between rows are disposed of by hoeing during the winter, provided that we take care to ensure the safety of the discs and then hoe again whenever the weeds grow.
Dry vegetative earring:
When the aerial stems turn yellow and dry in late winter, the plants are pinched from the surface of the soil, often at the end of January, and then these stems are burned, thus getting rid of the pests in them. Blanching to obtain white spurs.
The soil is piled over the disks, where the soil is taken from both sides of the plant and piled over the disc to make a pit with a height of about 30 cm.
This is done in early February, after irrigating the ground and leaving it to dry properly. Fertilization In January, municipal fertilizer is added at a rate of 10–15 cubic meters per acre, then mixed well with the soil. During growth, full fertilizer (15:15:15) is added at a rate of 200–300 kg per acre, provided that this fertilizer is placed in two batches after the completion of the collection of spurs.
The first, and in the months of July or August, the second, is placed in order to encourage vegetative growth, which helps in increasing the food stored in the tablets to give good spurs in the following season. Irrigation:
Irrigation should be stopped at the beginning of November until early February, then spaced irrigation in the spring, and finally a close irrigation when the weather warms and the soil is piled on top of the disks. The irrigation in this case is between the petsuns during the harvest.
Ripe and Harvest:
Usually, a crop is not taken in the first year of cultivation of asparagus in order to encourage vegetative growth and strengthen the discs, provided that the crop is collected in the following year for about a month, then in the third year it is two months, and then three months in the following year.
The spurs are collected when they reach a length of 20–25 cm. It is collected twice a week during March and daily in April and May, when the spurs grow faster, and the collection is in the early morning until the spurs are marketed on the same day.
Yield quantity
The harvest begins in the second year and then increases year after year until the tenth year, and the best production is in the fourth and fifth years. The plants were completely removed in the 15th year of cultivation. The feddan production is estimated at 500-750 kg in the second year 1000-1500 kg in the third year The fourth-year production varies until reaching the fifteenth year, after which the plants must be disposed of.
the new techniques to planting asparagus
