Teach you how to grow Chinese wolfberry for leaves at home

Leaves of Lycium barbarum are eaten with tender shoots and leaves as vegetables, which are rich in protein, vitamins and a variety of amino acids. Lycium barbarum leaves cool taste sweet, can tonify deficiency and essence, clear heat and quench thirst, dispel wind and clear vision. Although there are many sales in the market, the father of a small farmer still wants to plant a few trees at home so that he can pick leaves and cook soup when he grows up.

Lycium barbarum L.

Distinguish

The leaves of Lycium barbarum grown up are long, which, professionally speaking, is long oval, belonging to Ningxia Lycium barbarum (Lycium barbarumL.). This time, the Chinese wolfberry planted by the father of a small farmer is specially used to eat leaves, that is, leaf Chinese wolfberry (Lycium chinense Miller).

Cuttage planting

Cut about 15 cm long branches with 3 seed buds from the robust plants of Lycium barbarum, it is best to choose the base or middle of the branches, do not use the tender and weak parts at the top. The upper part of the branch is cut flat, the base is cut into a horseshoe, and then cut into the nursery bed or ground, the seedbed had better choose sandy loam, oblique insertion of the length of the branch 2 inch 3, pay attention to axillary buds upward, can not be inverted, spacing 10 × 10 cm, timely watering after insertion. The root can sprout in 2-3 weeks.

The most common eating method

① Chinese wolfberry leaf pig liver soup: fresh Chinese wolfberry leaf 200g, pig liver appropriate amount of boiled soup, add minced ginger and other seasoning. The folk is used to treat diseases such as red eyes with wind and heat, tears in both eyes, loss of vision, night blindness, malnutrition and so on. You can also use eggs to make Chinese wolfberry Egg & vegetable soup.

② Chinese wolfberry leaf tea: cut up the stems and leaves of Chinese wolfberry and put them in a ventilated and dry place to dry naturally. Chinese wolfberry tea after brewing with boiling water, the color is bright green, fragrant to the nostrils, with summer heat, blood pressure and other functions.

Let's take a look at the process of planting Chinese wolfberry by cutting recorded by the father of a small farmer. On the same day, I bought a handful of Chinese wolfberry soup with leaves in the market. After taking off the leaves, the remaining Chinese wolfberry branches tried to plant several plants. As the branches of these leaves with Chinese wolfberry still look relatively tender, they should have chosen the most appropriate old branches, but they can only be planted first, and whether they can survive depends on their vitality.

After planting is finished, watering must be thoroughly.