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Unlike lettuce plants, spinach and its relatives are more often eaten boiled. They are also used as medicinal plants for dietary and baby food
Spinach
King of vegetables
The main value of spinach is the high content of vitamins and proteins in its leaves. In addition, spinach contains a lot of iron salts, which are necessary for humans and are easily absorbed by the body. The value of spinach for maintaining human vitality was noticed by the ancient Arabs, who called the plant "the king of vegetables".
Healing abilities
Spinach is simply irreplaceable in baby and diet food. Adding spinach to the diet is an excellent prevention of vitamin deficiency in the body, as well as an obstacle to the development of scurvy. Tireless researchers report that the hemoglobin of our blood and the chlorophyll of spinach leaves are chemically similar.
The high iron content, which, moreover, is easily absorbed by the human body, turns spinach into a useful product for patients with anemia and ubiquitous tuberculosis
But here
with sick kidneys and liverand also for
gout, spinach is contraindicated
Early maturity
Its early maturity adds to the appeal of spinach. Varieties have been developed that give ready-to-eat greens within 3-4 weeks after sowing.
Growing and caring
Spinach is an unpretentious plant. It grows on any soil, is not afraid of late frosts and even withstands prolonged low temperatures.
It does not require separate areas, content with the role of the preceding crop for other vegetables planted at a later date. Or calmly tolerates the neighborhood with other cultures. Grows well in greenhouses and greenhouses.
Sowing seeds can be carried out several times per season: in early spring, in the middle of summer (for autumn use), in autumn (for spring harvest). Autumn sowing should be insulated with humus or tops.
To obtain tender greens, spinach requires regular watering and feeding with ammonium nitrate.
Spinach plants
Although sorrel, Swiss chard, garden quinoa belong to different families and genera by botanists, gardeners call them spinach plants for the similarity of their leaves and usefulness for the human body.
Sorrel
Perhaps the most familiar plant from childhood, which many chewed to the teeth. It is not only an early and readily available vitamin, but also a healer that relieves worms and diarrhea, can stop bleeding, and a remedy for liver diseases. A decoction from the roots of the plant improves metabolism, thereby strengthening human immunity.
Unpretentious sorrel grows for 3-4 years in one place, if you maintain the fertility and moisture of the soil. Sowing seeds can be done at any time of the year.
Chard
Chard is a subspecies of beet. But Swiss chard is grown not for the sake of obtaining root crops, but for the sake of vitamin and healthy leaves and petioles, from which salads, sauces, beetroots are prepared, and the petioles are used like asparagus or cauliflower. Grown by sowing seeds.
Garden quinoa
The word "quinoa" is more often associated with the ubiquitous weed or bread of the war years, setting up a sad note. But there is a garden quinoa useful for humans, which differs from a reddish-burgundy weed in green color and a mealy bloom on the leaves and stem. Such a plaque seems to suggest how you can use the plant.
Garden quinoa shoots are used similarly to spinach; added to bread dough; a nutritious cocktail is prepared from them in collaboration with the "bum" plant. And the seeds are used to treat stomach diseases.
For personal use, it is enough to plant just a few plants between vegetable beds.
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