NJ2018 Cultivating Proso and Foxtail Millet
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| 種黍、粟【附占勿谷粟、靑梁粟、薥黍】: 三月霜氣頓無, 【早黍、早粟三月上旬, 晩黍、晩粟三月中旬至四月上旬, 可種。】 擇良田, 【細沙、黑土相半者爲良。黍、粟性宜高燥, 不宜下濕。】 |
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English Translation
Cultivating Proso/Foxtail Millet (IncludingJeommulgoksok, Cheongnyangsok, and Chokseo
If the frost disappears in the third month Early-planting proso/foxtail millet should be sown in the first week of the third month. Late-planting proso/foxtail millet should be sown between the second week of the third month and the first week of the fourth month, select a good field. Fields mixed with half fine sand and half black dirt are good. High and dry areas are appropriate for the nature of proso/foxtail millet, and low and wet places are not. First, scatter red beans about the field. Then, plow.
Following the ridges, alternately step on and off with the left and right heels of one's feet. Sow a mix of wild sesame seeds with proso/foxtail millet One part wild sesame seeds, three parts proso/foxtail millet. By switching between left and right feet, the seeds will be covered with soil. When the seedlings grow, hoe and remove the weeds growing in between the seedlings. Where they are thick, cover up the roots with dirt. Hoe three times, and do not stop hoeing just because there are no weeds.
After the seedlings have grown, if the weeds grow thickly between the ridges, yoke an ox, cover its mouth with a mussle, and have it plow slowly, preventing the grain from being damaged. If there are no weeds between the ridges, cover the roots of the plants with dirt.
If the proso millet is half ripe, it should be cut immediately. For, foxtail millet, it is possible to wait until is fully yellow to cut it. When proso millet is ripe, it falls easily, and if it comes into contact with wind, then the harvest will be lost.
If the fields are barren, use aged manure or urinated ash (for mixing) and sow the seeds. For every two or three doe of millet, mix one seom of aged manure or urinated ash.
Proso/foxtail millet, as well, has a late-planting quick-ripening variety, similar to cheongnyang Its common name is saengdongjeom. Its common name is jeommulgok.
Choose soil that is thick, old, and well-used for planting. Places without trees and grass are best, old and well-used fields are second best, and fields where barley has been grown (and the roots remain) are the worst.
In the fifth month, remove the weeds, waiting till they are dry to burn them. When the ashes are not yet cool If the ashes cool, then spiders make a web all over the fields's surface, preventing the seeds from touching the soil, scatter the proso/foxtail millet seeds. Then, dig up the earth with a cheolchipa Its common name is susueum and cover the seeds. This reduces the labor for hoeing and produces twice as much yield as normal. In general, regarding field cultivation methods, plowing in authmn (so the seeds) grow in winter is best, and this is all the more so for proso/foxtail millet fields. If the stalks of intercropped proso/foxtail millet grow too thick due to rain, only the leaves will sprout and the grain will not mature. Yoke an ox, cover its mouth with a mussle, and plow in between two ridges, putting dirt in between the joints of the proso/foxtail millet stalks. This will grow new roots and leaves that will grow long and mature into grain.
Chokseo Its common name is dangseo is appropriate for low and wet areas, and inappropriate for high and dry areas. If sowed early in the second month, (even) without a second hoeing there will be a large harvest.
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