Mustard is of great importance for agricultural production. It is used for several purposes: as a honey plant, as a fertilizer and for the production of powder, which is used in medicine and cooking. Despite the fact that this culture enriches the soil with trace elements useful for the growth of various flora, such as potassium, magnesium and others, for its growth it is necessary to prepare the soil, do top dressing, and so on. In addition, you need to know how to plant mustard in the fall, since this time is considered the most favorable for planting this crop.
Healthy plant
White mustard is a one-year oilseed crop. This plant belongs to the cruciferous family. Fine pollen is made from pollen. It has healing properties. Oil is extracted from mustard seeds , which is used in many fields, such as perfumes, medicine, food processing and others.
Also (as mentioned above) this plant can be used to enrich the soil before planting other major crops, such as onions. If you mustard the mustard in the fall, in the spring, the seedlings will gradually release the accumulated nitrogen into the soil. In addition, it is useful to plant this crop along with legumes, such as lentils and other plants. It inhibits the growth of unnecessary grass and generally has a βhealingβ effect on the soil - it prevents the leaching of beneficial nutrients, prevents insect pests and so on. In addition, this culture is grown as a feed plant.
Landing Highlights
In order to successfully sow mustard in the fall, you can arm yourself with such useful information:
- Before planting, it is better to plow the soil and fertilize.
- Mustard is not recommended to be planted after other cruciferous plants, since they are affected by identical diseases, pests.
- Sowing of mustard in the fall can be carried out in the usual way, in which rows are run at intervals of up to 0.25 m.
- Seeds are recommended to be buried by 0.03 m.
- Sowing time must be calculated so that the seeds do not have time to ascend before the first frost. As a rule, this plant sprouts at a temperature of about 10Λ β 15Λ in a week.
- The consumption of mustard seeds when sowing in rows is mainly about 16 kg, and with the continuous method - about 12 kg (per 1 ha).
Top dressing and cleaning
It is good to feed mustard with nitrogen-containing fertilizers, this plant also likes timely watering. When flowering (it begins 40 days after sowing and lasts about 20 days), apiary plants should be equipped in the field per hectare - one or two bee families. If desired (to increase the collection of honey), the terms for planting mustard are changed. This can be done in three steps - in May (middle and end) and until June 10.
About 2.5 months are spent on seed vegetation. Harvesting is carried out when the plants turn dark yellow, the pods dry, and the seeds harden. The collection process is best done in the early morning (before dew) or in cloudy weather.
Mustard is a useful agricultural plant; its cultivation was known in the early centuries. Seeds and honey collected from the flowers of this culture are used for different purposes.