The selection acquaints the reader with the overseas guest – chufy. Conditions of cultivation and care of it.
Garden rarities
Garden rarities
Than this overseas guest is interesting?
First, the huge efficiency – gives to 2 kg of tubers and 2,5 kg of green material from 1 sq.m.
Chuf – long-term thermophilic culture. It maintains spring frosts, but in areas with frosty or low-snow winters freezes. In this regard at us it grow up as annual culture.
Klubenki at it small (3×1,2 cm), oval, on their one plant – from 300 to 1000. For food nutlets ripen in 110 days, on seeds – for a month later.
Nutlets are formed underground on escapes – stolonax. They yellowish-brown with dark brown cross-section strips scars, are covered with a thick cover, with white sweetish pulp inside. On a top (that is on the end opposite to a place of an attachment of a nutlet to underground escape) some kidneys sit. From them four sprouts, giving bunches from 5-11 sedentary, narrow, long, boatshaped, rigid, bright green leaves develop one-two, seldom. They are eaten willingly by horses and cows, from them spin baskets, mats, basts. Stalks at chufy naked, in the basis reinforced, stem shooters in height 50-100 see.
Fresh klubenki sweetish and pleasant on the taste, fried – remind almonds therefore it is possible to strew with them pies, cookies. Klubenki are nutritious, as contain a lot of fat (about 25 % in solid), carbohydrates (45 %), mineral salts (nearly 10 %), especially calcium and phosphorus, vitamin E. Oil chufy not drying (such as olive), the golden color, very pleasant on taste, is used in cookery and perfumery.
Clean nutlets generally manually. It also grow up generally on personal plots.
The practicians cultivating this culture, argue that she loves places light, the soil friable, fertile. Land chufu usually at the beginning of May, previously having sustained klubenki that bulked up, two days in water or in a wet rag. Land them on depth of 8 cm on 3 klubenka in one hole. Holes have according to the scheme 20×40 see.
Shoots appear in 10 days, and a week later them feed up dung water. The second time fertilize it at the beginning of formation klubenkov (it in a month after growth of leaves), and the last – in the middle of July.
Leaving: moderate watering, loosening of row-spacings with a simultaneous earthing up of plants, weedings.
To dig out klubenki begin in the autumn when dry up and leaves turn yellow.
From one hundred part it is possible to receive a nutlet to 80 kg. Them remove from roots, sift on sieves, wash in water and potassium permanganate solution, dry and store in holshchevy sacks at 10-150i humidity of 75 %.
Before the use nutlets wash out and eat crude or roasted.
Practically revealed what more effectively to grow up chufu in the rassadny way: the sprouts well develop, plants plentifully fructify. At a rassadny way nutlets before landing disinfect in potassium permanganate, put on days in a damp fabric that bulked up, put then in yashchichka with the fertile earth on depth of 2 cm according to the scheme of 5x5x5 cm, cover with glass and put in heat.
Shoots appear in 15 days, water them moderately, temper plants and loosen the soil.
Crop at a rassadny way of cultivation chufy twice more than at disembarkation of seeds in open soil.
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