How to grow eggplants big and healthy (the best way to grow and manage eggplants for high yields)

How to make eggplant grow big and good

Many people like to grow eggplant and want to achieve high yield, but not many people can achieve high yield. Most people eat as they grow and don’t care. However, if the planting area is large and needs to be sold, achieving high yield is the basis for a good harvest, which requires efforts in management.

There are many techniques for managing eggplants. Once you learn them, there will be no problem in growing high-yield and high-quality eggplants. Let’s talk about these techniques below.

1. Choose high-yield and disease-resistant varieties

The first task of eggplant cultivation is variety selection. Choose disease-resistant and high-yield varieties. Try not to keep seeds for yourself or use old varieties. It is better to choose newly cultivated hybrid varieties. Here are some good varieties to recommend: Liaoqie No. 1, Longzaqie No. 3, and Tianjin Kuaiyuanqie.

2. Preparation before planting: laying mulch and spreading fertilizer

Eggplants are usually planted after seedlings are grown. Try not to broadcast or direct sow. In northern areas, seedlings can be grown in early March and planted in early April.

Before planting, prepare the soil:

One is to plow the land deeply, apply enough basal fertilizer, and cultivate the land intensively;

The second is to cover the ground with film, because the normal growth temperature of eggplant cannot be reached during this period, especially when the temperature drops at night. Direct open-air planting may cause the seedlings to catch cold. Covering with film can keep warm and moisturize and improve fertility .

3. Do a good job in fertility management and balance nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium

The growth of eggplant requires balanced fertilizers. It is necessary to grasp the fertilizer needs of eggplant in each growth period. Generally speaking, more nitrogen fertilizers are needed in the seedling stage, and more phosphorus and potassium fertilizers are needed in the flowering and fruiting stage.

Therefore, during the seedling stage, we should pay attention to the use of nitrogen fertilizer and use more urea, 20-25 kilograms per mu.

During the flowering period, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers are mainly used, and trace elements such as boron fertilizers are appropriately supplemented.

During the fruiting period, underground fertilizer should be combined with foliar fertilizer. Urea and potassium dihydrogen phosphate aqueous solution can be used as a mixture of fertilizers.

4. Do a good job of pruning and remove the long and redundant branches

Eggplant will grow many branches during its growth, but it does not need so many branches to produce fruits, so it is necessary to prune the branches in time and remove all the overgrown branches and excess branches.

This can save fertilizer and supply nutrients to eggplants. When pruning, first remove all the branches below the gate eggplant, and then remove the branches above the gate eggplant appropriately according to actual needs.

【 Summarize 】

If you do the above four points well and manage the eggplant in the field well, there will be no problem in producing good eggplant.

Whether it is for commercial use or for personal consumption, it is important to improve management, achieve high yields, get more out of your labor, and feel happy when eating. This is the purpose of growing eggplants.