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Planting And Care For Basil Plants


How to plant and care for basil plants. Basil can be propagated by seeds. Basil seeds from fruits that ripen on the stem. Characteristic of the old grain is colored black and dry. Basil seeds should be sown before planting. Cultivated soil for seeding until crumbly. Mix with a little manure. If soil is too sticky add sand. Then sprinkle the basil seeds and cover with a thin layer of soil.

How to plant basil

Take care of plants that are grown in the nursery. Plants that are too tightly reduced. Unplug the growth of plants that are weak or interrupted. After about 4 weeks old the young plants can be moved to land. Basil seed requirement for planting one hectare of land of about 2-5 kg. Planting basil is usually grown in a nursery-bed. Sized bed with a length of 1-1 m according to the size of the land. Before planting, raised bed manure. Irrigation ditches between beds made ​​as wide as 35 cm. Basil plant spacing is 50 x 50 cm or 60 x 60 cm. Make the planting hole is small, the importance of young plants can go in and not crowded.

How to take care basil plants

Care of young basil plants on land need to be checked is whether grow properly. If there are plants that die or grow worse, should be separated from the fertile plants. Weeding should be done well. Weeds that grow must be revoked or discharged. When weeding is not necessary to wait until the grass grew and many. Weeds are even more dangerous when the plants are young because the competitiveness of the plant roots to absorb nutrients is still very low. The flowers are grown should be discarded. If not then it will decrease the production of fresh shoots. Flower buds removed once a week while doing the trimming. Arrange for a compact branching and shoot growth will not biased, but equally in all directions. Manure fertilizer dose given is 10 tons / ha. Basil needs to get additional fertilizer that contains nitrogen, and urea. This element is essential to stimulate the growth of basil leaves on an ongoing basis. Fertilization is done during the first 3-week-old plants. Fertilization second 5-week old plants. Every time picking, give 3 g of nitrogen fertilizer per plant. Urea fertilizer requirements for basil plant is 150 kg / ha.

Harvest and post harvest

Since the age of 50 days after planting, basil leaves can be picked. Perform picking on young leaves as do the plucking tea buds. Plucking will stimulate the growth of new branches to allow more new shoots grow. These new shoots can be harvested at the next harvest period. Harvest basil shoots can be done until the plants are old. When you want a long-lived plants, do not let it flower and fruit. Separate plant for its nut as seeds. In this way, plants that bud to capture is not compromised productivity. Another alternative, leaving one or two branches are allowed to flower and fruit. Once the seeds are old branches trimmed. Usually basil plucked along 15 cm. When you want to be marketed basil together in a small bond containing 5-10 sticks.

There are some tips in the planting and care of basil plants, to how to control pests and plant diseases basil, will be discussed in next article. Take care properly and regularly so basil plants that your cultivated will produce a good quality leaves.
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