What is Qingming cuisine? With planting method!

Qingming cuisine, also known as Tian Ai and Buddha's grass, is a common wild vegetable on the hillside, in front and behind the house, and in the field. It generally matures before and after Ching Ming Festival and is deeply loved by people because of its high medicinal value. What is Qingming cuisine? What are the planting methods?

What is Qingming cuisine?

1. Qingming cabbage is an annual or biennial herb of Compositae and Salvia. The plant height is about 10~50cm, the stem is erect, there are many branches, and there are white cotton hairs and oblanceolate or spatulate leaves on the branches, apex tip, narrow base, globular bell-shaped flowers, a total of three layers of golden bracts, the fruit is oblong, usually flowering in April-June and fruiting in August-September.

2. Qingming vegetable is a kind of wild vegetable with high nutritional value, which is rich in carotene, vitamins and volatile oil. it has the effect of antibacterial, antihypertensive and analgesic. It can be eaten in patients with cough, cold, broad bean disease or abnormal leucorrhea.

3. Qingming vegetable is a kind of wild vegetable that grows everywhere during the Qingming Festival. Generally, in April every year, many people will pick some to go home to make Qingming cake or cook soup. It tastes very good and can play a certain therapeutic effect.

Second, what are the planting methods of Qingming vegetables?

1. Land selection and preparation: which land is suitable for planting?

Qingming vegetable is suitable for growing in a fertile and moist soil, so the requirement for soil is not high, and it can be planted in mountainous areas, gardens or grasslands. After selecting the land, turn the soil deeply, remove all kinds of weeds in the field, and make a small ditch at a distance of 1.5 meters in order to plant in the later stage.

2. Sowing and raising seedlings: when is a good time to sow seeds?

(1) sowing time: good sowing time from February to March.

(2) sowing method: Qingming vegetable can be sown by strip sowing or sowing, in which sowing is to spread the seeds evenly on the seedling field, then cover the thin soil and pour a small amount of water; strip sowing is to sow the seeds evenly into the ditches, and then cover the soil and water. In these two methods, sowing is a waste of seeds, and it is difficult to manage in the later stage, but it is relatively simple, so it is recommended to sow seeds by strip sowing.

3. Field management technology: how to manage it?

(1) ploughing and weeding: after Qingming vegetables grow and grow, we should inspect the garden frequently and pull out the weeds in the garden in time. At that time, the soil can be loosened to improve the air permeability of the soil.

(2) Fertilizer requirements: Qingming vegetables do not have high requirements for fertilizer, specific according to the plant growth to determine whether to apply fertilizer.

(3) moisture requirements: Qingming vegetables do not have high requirements for moisture, as long as they keep the soil moist, so they should be watered more in summer and drainage measures should be taken during the plum rain season.

4. Timely harvest: when will the harvest be ready?

Qingming vegetables are harvested in batches, generally growing to about 12cm, can be the first harvest, wait for the growth of new leaves, and then the second harvest, harvest, do not be too late, lest old can not be eaten.

The above is a detailed introduction of what Qingming cuisine is and how to grow it. I hope it will be helpful to you.