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Recipes of water spinach growing from seeds

( Update: 18/09/2014 )

(Vietnamese People) - spinach with 2 types, kinds and types of plant grown under terrestrial water. Dried vegetable growing techniques have a few points to note in order to improve productivity and quality of vegetables.

On the planting season, in the northern region usually sown from February to March calendar. There may be areas south sown all year round. Shallow water spinach with 2 main varieties of white and red spinach. The amount of seed sown from 45 - 50 kg / ha (4.5 - 5 kg / 1.000m2).
Fertilization is crucial to the quality and productivity.

Attention away from the cluster selected land and industrial parks, villages, hospitals, cemeteries, waste water to ensure clean and safe water spinach. Spinach can be grown on land species (except ground alum salt on an average). Should choose light loam or medium loam, rich in organic matter, near water sources. The soil should be plowed, harrow thoroughly, picked clean before planting grass. Furrowing to bed: The bed 1.2m wide, 0.3m trench beds, 15cm high.

Regarding fertilizer, planting vegetable yield and quality, technical safety, the fertilizer is crucial for the care package. Do not use fresh manure, the type of animal and plant products fresh, fresh excrement (feces toilet) water and fresh manure for fertilizing or irrigating directly spinach.

Fertilizer dosage, if the manure was composted then used a pit from 10-15 tonnes / ha (1 to 1.5 tons / 1.000m2), can also use bio-organic fertilizer, or manure processing replaced with variable amounts of manure fertilizer from 500 - 1,000 kg / ha (50 - 100 kg / 1,000 m2).

For chemical fertilizers, fertilizer lined with compost manure or domestic phosphate fertilizers (calcined phosphate or super phosphate). If soil pH <7 (acidic) then fused using doses from 300 - 400 kg / ha (30 - 40 kg / 1.000m2). If there are no conditions on manure or organic-rich soil was then just a pit before sowing by SV NPK fertilizers (10-15-5 + TE) with the amount of 200-250 kg / ha (20 - 25kg / 1.000m2).

Need fertilizer furrow, row or on the surface of the planting strip (if applicable sowing method) to raise the effectiveness of classification. After a pit dug and raked finished, remember to separate mixed with soil.

Dr. Nguyen Dang Nghia
(Research Center for Earth - Fertilizer and Environment in the South)