Sowing Tips: VE-057 Edamame

Seed Sowing Guide

Seedling:

Fill up the seedling tray or seedling pots with Baba Seedling Soil. Use finger gently make a small hole, put in 1-2 seeds and cover with a thin layer of soil.

During seedling stage, put under shaded area and make sure water thoroughly daily. When there is sprout, then move it to area with direct sunlight.

♥♥ Extra Tip: Before put in seed into soil or before transplant, you could water the seedling mix or potting mix first. This is to ensure the potting mix get enough moist and prevent plants get dehydrated later.

Transplant:

When the seedling with 3-4 leaves (around 14-28 days after germination), the seedling is ready to transplant.

• Ready a suitable size pot. Such as Baba RD 260, RD 310 or RD 392. The bigger space you provide to the seedling, the more harvest you could get. The minimum depth of the planting container is 250mm.
• Fill up the planting pot with Baba Vegimix, and make holes on Vegimix to prepare for transplant. Each seedling requires minimum 250mm width.
• Take out the seedling from seedling pots, and put into the hole. Press gently on surrounding soil, to make the seedling stay firm.
• If you manage to germinate more than 1 seedling, you may put two seedlings in one pot, 1 week later, keep the stronger plant and remove the weak plant from the pot.

♥♥ Extra tips: Edamame easily attract pest or fungus, you may add in 20% plant base compost into Baba vegimix. Plant base compost help the plant to grow stronger.

Fertilizing:

Put Mr. Ganick 532 Organic Leafy Fertilizer on 7^th days after transplant. After that, repeat fertilizing on every week, for a month.

One month later, or when the plant start flowering, change the fertilizer to Mr. Ganick 426 Organic Melon Fertilizer. Repeat weekly too.

Dig a small hole beside plants, and put in fertilizer, then, cover the fertilizer with a thin layer of soil. Water after done fertilizing.

Watering:

Moist is important for Edamame. Make sure soil always enough moist and water it when needed.

Water thoroughly on every morning is recommended.

Harvest Tips:

When the Edamame is healthy, you could enjoy more harvest and prolong the harvest period. A healthy plant could continue harvest for few months. On time watering, fertilizing, and full sunlight is very important.

Edamame, attract insect and fungi. Spray Mr. Ganick Dr. Neem once a week during evening time to repel pest.