In this article the culture characteristic – a pumpkin is described.
The PUMPKIN – the FINE DIETARY PRODUCT
The pumpkin – a fine dietary product, and this truth is conclusive. Still the botanist of the Item of M Zhukovsky wrote that a pumpkin – culture of the future. Dietary properties of a pumpkin allow to recommend it at diseases of a liver, kidneys, a yazyovenny illness of a stomach, atherosclerosis.
In pulp of fruits of a pumpkin to 30 % of the solid containing to 15 % of sugars, to 23 % of cellulose and cellulose, to 24 % of starch. The pumpkin is rich with pektinoyovy, nitrogenous substances, vitamins: With, V1, V2, PPI carotene, contains enzymes which translate protein in soluble pepton that is especially important for people with sick kidneys. The pumpkin is unpretentious, gives very big crops on chernozems, the dark-chestnut soils rich with a humus.
To use a pumpkin it is possible in any kind, in any dishes: porridges, soups, zayopechenny, stewed, in salads, in the form of svezheprigotovlenny juice and simply crude. The crude pumpkin is especially useful to the person. Eating daily within a month in the mornings on 100 g, it is possible to feel, as the liver as stomach work improved got healthy.
At Institute of the southern vegetable growing and melon growing unusually tasty table grades of a pumpkin which it is possible to eat and in the raw are created. They very sweet, with gentle crackling pulp, without sharp pumpkin aroma. Fruits okyoruglo-splusnuty, gray color – it is grades Kherson, Polevichka, the Blade of grass and the Nickname.
Fine table grade of a muscat pumpkin is the grade the Novelty.
All grades of a pumpkin differ that radionuclides and salts of heavy metals deduce from an organism. Besides, the made experiments on cultivation of pumpkins in a zone of Chernobyl failure showed that they don’t accumulate some caesium 137.
To sow a pumpkin it is necessary as soon as possible when the soil will get warm till 8-10 ° by S.Glubina of seal of seeds depends on their size and from the soil. Novinyoka’s small seeds on sandy and sandy soils close up on 4-5 cm, on the heavy – on 3-4 cm, large seeds on 1-2 cm are deeper.
If it is enough moisture and heat, the pumpkin ascends very quickly and quickly rastet.
It is very important, that in shoots and to a pletneobrazovaniye the soil was friable, pure from weeds. Plants should grow on one and isn’t closer, than in 1 m from each other, is optimum – 1,4×1,4 m. To water a pumpkin often it is impossible, differently plody won’t gather enough of sugars. Because of the powerful root system the pumpkin belongs to drought-resistant cultures.
It is necessary to note that in recent years the prices for fruits of a pumpkin sharply vozrosli, especially during the winter period. That who will manage to organize its storage, the vyyorashchivaniye of a pumpkin can bring in the high monetary income.
V. Sokolov.
(On Ovoshchevodstvo magazine materials).