How to sow mustard in the fall?

Mustard is of great importance for agricultural production. It is used for several purposes: as a honey plant, as a fertilizer and for the production of powder, which is used in medicine and cooking. Despite the fact that this culture enriches the soil with microelements useful for the growth of various flora, such as potassium, magnesium and others, for its growth it is necessary to prepare the soil, make top dressing and so on. In addition, you need to know how to plant mustard in the fall, since this time is considered the most favorable for planting this culture.

Useful plant

White mustard is a one-year oilseed crop. This plant is referred to the family cruciferous. From its pollen make a wonderful honey, which has medicinal properties. From the seeds of mustard, oil is extracted, which is used in many areas, such as perfumery, medicine, food industry and others.

Also (as mentioned above), this plant can be used to enrich the soil before planting other major crops, such as onions. If you plant mustard in autumn, then in spring the shoots will gradually release accumulated nitrogen in the soil. In addition, it is useful to plant this crop together with legumes, for example lentils and other plants. It suppresses the growth of unnecessary grass and generally has a "health" effect on the soil - prevents the washing away of useful nutrients, does not allow breeding to insect pests, and so on. In addition, this culture is grown as a fodder plant.

Highlights of landing

In order to successfully sow mustard in the fall, you can arm with such useful information:

• Before planting the soil, it is better to plow and fertilize.
• Mustard is not recommended to plant after other cruciferous plants, because they are affected by identical diseases, pests.
• Sowing mustard in autumn can be carried out in the usual way, in which rows with intervals of up to 0.25 m are performed.
• Seeds are recommended to be buried at 0.03 m.
• The sowing time must be calculated in such a way that the seeds do not have time to ascend to the first frost. As a rule, this plant sprouts at a temperature of about 10˚-15˚С in a week.
• The consumption of mustard seeds for seeding in rows is generally about 16 kg, and for a continuous method - about 12 kg (per 1 ha).

Top dressing and cleaning

Mustard is well fed with nitrogen fertilizers, and this plant loves timely watering. When flowering (it begins 40 days after sowing and lasts for about 20 days), it is necessary to equip one apiary or two families of bees in the field of the apiary. If desired (to increase the collection of honey), the time for sowing mustard changes. This can be done in three steps - in May (mid and late) and until June 10.

The vegetation season takes about 2.5 months. Cleaning is done when the plants get a dark yellow color, the pods wither, and the seeds harden. The collection process is better performed in the early morning (before the fall of dew) or in cloudy weather.

Mustard is a useful agricultural plant, its cultivation was known back in the early centuries. Seeds and honey, collected from the flowers of this culture, are used for different purposes.