
Experts' advice for vegetable farming in the month of September

Suggestion for vegetable farming are as follow:
Peas : In case pea crop is to be sown for the first time in AP-3, treat 40 kg seed of early maturing varieties like Mater Ageta-6, Mater Ageta-7 or Arkel with Rhizobium culture specific for pea. Apply 45 kg urea and 155 kg superphosphate per acre before sowing. Apply 10 kg Furadan 3 G per acre in furrows at sowing for reducing the infestation of stem fly in early sown pea crop.
Garlic : In the second fortnight of this month, apply 20 tonnes of well rotten farmyard manure per acre and mix it into the soil. Apply 40 kg urea and 155 kg superphosphate per acre at sowing. Dibble or drill 225 to 250 kg healthy cloves of garlic in wattar condition on ridges. Keep lines 15 cm and plants 7.5 cm apart. Irrigate immediately thereafter.
Palak : Use 4-6 kg/acre seed of Punjab Green. Seed should be sown 3-4 cm deep in rows at 20 cm apart in wattar conditions.
Cole crops : Transplant fully developed seedlings (4-6 weeks old) of main season varieties of cauliflower. Apply 45 kg urea, 155 kg superphosphate and 40 kg muriate of potash before transplanting. Sowing of late season varieties of cauliflower i.e. Pusa Snow Ball-1 and Pusa Snow Ball : K-1 can be started. Sow 250 g seed in one marla to grow seedlings for planting an acre.
Root Crops : Start sowing of “desi” varieties of radish (Punjab Safed Mooli-2, Punjab Pasand), turnip (L-1) and carrot (Punjab Black Beauty, Punjab Carrot Red and PC 34), using 4-5 kg seed rate of radish and carrot and 2-3 kg seed rate of turnip per acre. Keep ridges 45 cm and plants 7.5 cm apart. Cultivation of root crops on ridges help in better growth and development of roots and easy harvest. To maintain plant- plant distance do the thinning of seedlings 15 days after emergence.
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