Expert Advisory Details

Experts' suggestions for vegetables in August month

Following are the experts' suggestions for different types of vegetables:

Cauliflower: Sow 250 g seed of mid season varieties in one marla bed area. Irrigate the nursery beds with a watering can daily in the beginning and thrice a week there after. Treat the seed with 3g Captan or Thiram per kg of seed before sowing.

Root crops: From the last week of this month, start sowing Asiatic (Desi) varieties of radish (Pusa Chetki), carrot (Punjab Black Beauty, Punjab Carrot Red and PC-34) and turnip (L-1). Before sowing, add 15 tonnes FYM, 55 kg urea and 75 kg single superphosphate per acre. Apply 50kg muriate of potash per acre to carrot only. Prepare ridges 45 cm apart and dibble seed in fully moist conditions at 7.5 cm spacing. Apply light irrigation immediately after sowing. Use 4-5 kg seed of radish and carrot and 2-3 kg seed of turnip to sow an acre. 

Chilli

• Harvest red ripe fruits once a fortnight to minimize shedding in the fields. Fully developed green fruits may be plucked for use as a salad and pickle.
• For control of fruit rot and die back, spray the crop with 250 ml of Folicur or 750 g of Indofil M 45 or Blitox in 250 litres of water per acre at 10 days interval.

Brinjal and Okra

• Spray 80ml Coragen 18.5 SC (chlorantraniliprole) or 80g Proclaim 5 SG (emamectin benzoate) or 100 ml Sumicidin 20 EC or 200 ml Ripcord 10 EC in 100-125 litres of water against fruit and shoot borer of brinjal.
• In brinjal, spider mite attack can be minimized by spraying 300 ml O-mite 57 EC per acre in 150 litres of water.
• The attack of jassid on bhindi can be reduced by spraying 40ml confidor 17.8 SL (imidacloprid) or 40g Actara 25 WG (thiamethoxan). As soon as flowering starts give 3 sprays at fortnightly intervals with 70 g Proclaim 0.5 SG or 100 ml of Sumicidin 20 EC or 80ml of Cymbush 25 EC in 100-125 litres of water per acre to control jassid as well as spotted bollworms.

Onion: During this month start planting kharif onion crop both with bulbsets as well as seedlings. Apply 45 kg urea, 125 kg single superphosphate and 35 kg muriate of potash per acre before planting. Transplant seedlings at 15 × 7.5 cm distance and irrigate the field immediately after transplanting.