Have you heard about strawberry spinach, or can you have tried it? If not, then completely in vain. After all, this storehouse of vitamins is very attractive in appearance and has an excellent taste. He refers to the family of swans, that is, practically a cultural weed.
If you do not know how to grow strawberry spinach in the country, then a big problem is not. After all, strawberry spinach or the marrow is multi-leaved, very unpretentious and grows literally on any soil. This culture is very cold-resistant and can withstand freezing up to minus 10 ° С. Many prefer to sow the seeds under the winter, in order to please their loved ones with fresh greens in the early spring. Those who did not have time to do this before the cold, can sow the seedling at home and then plant it in the open ground.
How to grow spinach on a windowsill?
You need to start with preparing the soil for the boxes. In the street the plant will find nutrients in the soil, but in a limited space of the box it is more difficult to make, therefore the land must contain humus and be nutritious. Having pierced it in the oven or after having frosted for several days in the freezer to get rid of pests, the substrate is ready for use.
Seeds can be purchased at the store, and you can use the harvested from the last harvest. They are sown shallowly into the groove (about 1 cm), after which they are moistened from the spray gun and covered with glass until emergence.
Cultivation of strawberry spinach from seeds in seedlings can begin as early as March, in order to transplant in an open soil in a month and a half. Crops are not afraid of temperature fluctuations.
Growing spinach at home is not difficult for this, you need a sunny window sill, timely watering and the desire to get greens to your table.
How to grow spinach from seeds in the open ground?
There are two options for planting - autumn and early spring. Both have their pluses - choose you. Just the argument of those who choose a sub-winter landing is that there is so much work in the garden in the spring, and the green leaves are already growing and can be eaten along with the early greens.
You can sow the spinach until the middle of October, and in warm regions and even later. Coldness to him is not terrible, as well as garlic garlic and onions, which are planted on a feather in the autumn on the eve of frosts.
In the spring, the seeds of spinach can be sown as soon as the snow comes down, and the earth slightly recedes. Thus, after a month, useful and tasty spinach leaves can be eaten.
Benefits of strawberry spinach
What is so useful about this small bush, which grows to a height of not more than 60 cm? and berries and leaves are rich in all sorts of mineral substances, and especially a lot of iron in it, which is easily absorbed by the body. And there are more useful lipids for blood here than in the record for their content - wheat . Thus, strawberry spinach helps prevent a variety of diseases, in particular anemia .
And, of course, a set of vitamins, sucrose, glucose and fructose, there too in abundance. A
In what form is strawberry spinach used?
People who first encounter this plant do not know whether it is possible to eat it raw or to make preparations for the winter. This type of spinach is so good that it is suitable for food in any form. From green leaves make all sorts of vitamin salads and cook sauce. They can be closed for the winter by pickling and pickling.
Colorful berries, which, although they do not have a pronounced taste (reminiscent of mulberry), are closed in the form of compotes and frozen to decorate cakes and meat dishes.