Jerusalem artichoke is relatively recent, but has already gained fans. He is well kept, gives excellent yields and famous helpful staff. Substance as a part necessary for people with hypertension and diabetes mellitus.
Jerusalem artichokes
The people called Jerusalem artichoke for a specific taste. Jerusalem artichoke - a perennial that can become a weed if negligence on the part of the hosts. The plant spreads by seeds and tubers, appearance resembles a sunflower. During flowering is decorated with garden and lures bees. In autumn dig the tubers resembling to taste sweet potatoes.
How to plant and grow
Jerusalem artichoke is not different whims, but it can not run. Note cultivation nuances:
- Better plant tubers in spring, so collect a full crop. When planting the seeds obtained by planting material for the next year.
- Choose the best sunny areas with good ventilation.
- It is important to adhere to the long intervals between planting, as the plant is gaining in height to two meters! Wells were recommended dig 15 cm deep and at a distance of about 30-50 cm apart.
- Feed once a month: the first half of the summer - nitrogen additives, and then - potassium and phosphorus fertilizers. A month before harvest to stop data.
- With watering should observe moderation and focus on the weather.
- Hilling made when Jerusalem artichoke grows 30-40 cm.
- To stem not broken, experienced gardeners carved props.
- Colors is recommended to cut, they take strength from the tuber. They make excellent bouquets for your home.
- 2 weeks to cut the stems above the ground cuttings should stay no longer than 30 cm in height.
How to collect and preserve the harvest
Artichoke different cold resistance, it can withstand up to -40 degrees! Some gardeners even leave the tubers in the ground for the winter to feast on the harvest in the spring, it is only important not to miss the moment, not yet gone shoots. Jerusalem artichoke is stored as well as potatoes, into hiding. Before storage it is washed and dried.
Remember, out of the land need to remove all the tubers! Unattended artichoke garden and flood the small feral weed tubers.
Benefit for health
Useful treat actively used in folk medicine, it is advised to make the diet of diabetics and hypertensive patients.
- Silicon in its composition is very useful in case of problems with joints and fatigue.
- It contains inulin, a polysaccharide, digestible without insulin.
- The presence of vitamins C, B1 and B2.
- Jerusalem artichoke helps to organize the work of the pancreas.
Grow easy to store - even easier, vegetable tasty and useful, because it should make a list of new plantings in the upcoming season.