2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The long-awaited spring always comes with a lot of gifts, vitamin and appetizing, so that a person can replenish useful substances in his body spent during the winter period, giving vitality and joy of being
Buckwheat rhubarb
It is interesting that two plants from the Buckwheat family provide people with such different products as buckwheat, the porridge from which filled the epic Russian heroes with the strength, and today it successfully restores vital energy after physical and mental stress of an eternally hurrying modern man, and Rhubarb cuttings, which successfully replace fruits and berries in early spring.
The spectacular and powerful plant Rhubarb with large picturesque leaves at first glance resembles a spreading Castor oil plant, a plant of the tropics, which is famous for both healing abilities and high toxicity, which poses a threat to human health. Rhubarb is a much more peaceful plant. However, you should not overuse the number of cuttings used for food, since the content of oxalic acid in its plant tissues is high, and therefore in large quantities, instead of being beneficial, rhubarb will only harm health.
Rhubarb's allure for culinary dishes
Early spring is in a hurry to make up for the winter lack of vitamins, decorating the land freed from snow with numerous early herbs full of substances useful for humans. Here, delicate wrinkled leaves of the Primrose are asking for your table, "ringing" with golden floral
"Keys"; slightly bitter Dandelion leaves crunch underfoot, wondering at human ignorance; the graceful leaves of the stinging, but very vitamin-packed Nettle turn green along the village wattle fence, which has been slanted over the winter. The absolutely free gifts of nature are ready to help people.
But, Rhubarb, which prefers human care, spreads its large picturesque leaves in man-made gardens, where the soil is loose and fertilized. Long juicy petioles, ready to turn into kvass or wine, sweet and sour jam or refreshing mashed potatoes, vitamin compote or jelly, are reddeningly reddening. Delicate fruity aroma gives rhubarb to homemade biscuits and ruddy pies. This is due to the high content of organic acids (oxalic, malic), vitamins "C" and "P" and many other useful substances in the cuttings of the plant.
Rhubarb cultivation techniques
Growing rhubarb is not that difficult. If no one is in a hurry to share with you the overgrown bushes of the plant, you can sow the seeds directly into the open ground in early spring, or first grow the seedlings. The optimum distance between seeds is ten to fifteen centimeters. And when planting seedlings in a permanent place between individual seedlings, a gap of up to eighty to one hundred centimeters is left. After all, the plant likes to widely spread its beautiful large leaves on long petioles.
The soil should be loose and rich in organic matter, as a powerful plant needs good nutrition. In order for the rhubarb stalks to grow juicy and thick, regular watering and two or three mineral dressings are required during the summer. They remove the petioles without resorting to the help of a knife, but breaking them off with their hands at the base.
Since Rhubarb can grow in one place for several years, you can leave it alone in mid-July so that the bush has time to gain strength for the next harvest. At this time, strawberries and cherries are already ripening in the garden and in the garden, so there is something to replace the vitamin petioles.
Although Rhubarb inflorescences serve as a decoration of the site, it is better to remove the flower stalks so that the plant does not waste extra energy on their development, if Rhubarb is grown for food, and not as a decorative miracle of nature.
For the winter, the bushes should be insulated with a layer of humus mulch. This will help Rhubarb to survive the winter cold more safely, and humus will become an autumn top dressing.
Among the bred Rhubarb varieties, the most popular variety is "Victoria". His petioles are colored red, and the juicy sour flesh is pink.
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