Adapting to solar terms

For most parts of China, the solar term of "the longer the wheat awn in Jiangyin, the higher the plums in Huangshi" is the busy period of agricultural production. At this time, we should harvest summer grain, sow summer grain and autumn grain, and manage spring grain. If it is really "the tent crops are busy, everything is busy", then let the 24 solar terms tell you what month the tent crops are.

Q: What month is awn seed?

A: The planting time is June 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

The solar term of canopy is the busiest season for the maturity and cultivation of summer crops such as wheat. In normal years, plum blossom begins in mid-June. The period from awn seed to summer solstice is the busy climax of sowing, transplanting, seedling management of autumn harvest crops and all-round entry into summer harvest, summer sowing and summer sowing.

Northeast China: winter and spring wheat irrigation topdressing. After transplanting. Millet, corn, sorghum, cotton seedlings. Soybean and sweet potato finished the first shovel. Sorghum, millet and corn were shoveled twice. Cotton threshing, rice weeding, topdressing preparation, pest control, hail suppression.

North China: Generally, wheat fields begin to harvest. Summer harvest and summer sowing are carried out simultaneously. Strengthen cotton field management, control aphids, water and topdressing. Northwest China: Winter wheat control pests and diseases. Water, intertillage, weed and topdressing spring corn. Millet cultivation and weeding, thinning seedlings, millet sowing, seedling inspection and seedling supplement.

In southwest China, spring crops should be planted and transplanted in time. Harvest summer crops on sunny days. There is harvest, cultivation and sowing. Central China: grab and harvest wheat, select seeds and keep them. Rush to plant summer corn, summer sorghum, summer soybean, sesame and so on. Topdressing mid-season rice, combined with ploughing and drainage, baked the field at the end of tree growth. Strengthen the management of single-season late rice and carefully remove impurities.

In the northern region, single-season late rice was planted between wheat stubble rice and Jianghuai. Seedling raising of double-cropping late rice. Control pests and diseases in rice fields. Soil tillage and weeding in woodland.

South China: Top dressing for early rice and top dressing for middle rice. Sow late rice, harvest early corn, harvest early soybeans and sow late soybeans. Planting sugarcane in spring and winter, cultivating ratoon sugarcane in the middle and topdressing, and cultivating soil in a small area to prevent aphids.