Can I eat shy fruit? What is the planting method?

Shy fruit, the scientific name of sour pulp, belongs to eggplant fruit vegetables, which is called Jinzhenguo in the north. So can I eat shy fruit? Where does it come from? What is the planting method of shy fruit? Let's take a look at it with the editor.

First, can you eat shy fruit?

In fact, the shy fruit is the golden fruit of the north, is a kind of eggplant fruit vegetables, the scientific name acid pulp, mainly from the northeast, Guangdong area. With the role of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, if there are symptoms of fever in life, it can be eaten to alleviate the disease.

The skin of the shy fruit has a pericarp, which can be eaten directly without washing, but some of the mature fruit peel may crack or make the pulp dirty, so we are advised to wash it clean and eat it.

Second, where is the origin of the shy fruit?

Mimo is native to China, and wild resources are distributed in the north and south, mainly in Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. It has been cultivated in China for a long time. Acid pulp was recorded in Erya in 300 BC. Now it is widely planted in Northeast China, and it is still a rare vegetable.

The producing environment of shy fruit

Mimosa is often cultivated once a year, with strong adaptability, cold and heat tolerance, cool and humid climate, sunshine, regardless of soil, especially those native to Asia can grow normally in the temperature range of 3-42 ℃. Shy fruit is common in the wild and planted in northern China. The coat of wild immature fruit and wrapped fruit is mostly green and red after ripening, while the coat of immature fruit and wrapped fruit is mostly green and yellow after maturity.

Third, what is the planting method of shy fruit?

The cultivation of humble fruit can be divided into spring, summer and autumn.

Spring sowing: the planting plot will be turned over 30 cm deep, leveled, ditched according to 30 cm row spacing, ditch depth 1. 5 cm, the planting density is 30 seeds per extended rice, then step on the grid, step on the seeds into the soil, cover the soil about 1 cm thick.

Summer sowing: use idle plots to cut off the weeds in the field before July 25, mix the seeds with wet sand, spread them evenly on the surface with your hands, and then hug them with an iron rake, with a depth of 2m. 3cm, so that all the seedlings can be produced in the rainy season in August.

Autumn sowing: the method is the same as that of spring sowing, which is in October and finished before freezing, but the seeds sown in autumn do not need to be frozen.

Field management:

The management of shy fruit is relatively extensive. In the seedling stage and before flowering, the pupil is normally shoveled twice to control the weeds. Generally, there is no management from anthesis to harvest. From the second year, it is necessary to get rid of the excess tillers in time. About 50,000 seedlings are preserved every 667 square meters. The yield of mime fruit planted in that year is not high, and the yield will continue to increase from the second year. There is no disease in the growing season, so it can be classified as immune variety.