What to eat in autumn and winter

Common winter vegetables include: lotus root, zucchini, celery, winter bamboo shoots, kale, pumpkin, spinach, watercress, cabbage, carrots, white radish, and broccoli.

1. White radish

As the saying goes, eat radish in winter and pear in autumn. This has certain scientific truth. The market time of white radish is from September to April of the next year. White radish is rich in vitamins and trace element zinc, which can help enhance the body's immunity and improve resistance. Moreover, white radish has always been known as "little ginseng" because it is rich in glycating enzymes that can promote gastrointestinal motility and increase immunity.

2. Cabbage

In the winter in northern China, Chinese cabbage is a frequent guest on the dining table, so there is a saying that "winter cabbage is as beautiful as bamboo shoots." Cabbage is slightly cold in nature and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving irritability, quenching thirst and diuresis, clearing the stomach and intestines, and clearing away heat from the lungs. The weather is dry in winter, so eating more cabbage can play a very good role in nourishing yin, moistening dryness, and skin care.

3. Winter bamboo shoots

The harsh winter is coming, and it is the time when winter bamboo shoots are freshly on the market. Winter bamboo shoots contain sufficient water, a large amount of carotene, vitamins B, C, E, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other essential nutrients for the human body. Eating winter bamboo shoots regularly can absorb the fat in the food eaten at each meal, reduce the absorption and accumulation of fat by the gastrointestinal mucosa, thereby achieving the purpose of losing weight, and can effectively reduce the occurrence of diseases related to high fat.

4. Watercress

Early winter to late spring is the season when watercress is most tender. Watercress is sweet and cool, non-toxic, has the effects of cooling the throat and moistening the lungs, dispelling phlegm and relieving coughs, appetizer and stagnation, cooling blood, and diuresis. It is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of pharyngitis, tonsillitis, etc. caused by dryness evil, and is effective in treating whooping cough, tuberculosis, etc. It is very beneficial to eat for respiratory diseases. Eating watercress can help people enjoy the end of the year and the New Year, and it is known as "the natural soup that clears away dryness and saves the lungs."

5. Pumpkin

Pumpkin is on the market from October to February of the following year. Pumpkin is a "versatile" winter vegetable. It can be steamed, roasted, stir-fried, and made into soup. Both are available. Its bright orange color comes from its high content of beta carotene, a powerful antioxidant that helps prevent heart disease and cancer. The ingredients contained in pumpkin can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal motility, and help food digestion.

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How to grow winter vegetables

1. Choose vegetable varieties with good cold resistance and disease resistance

Now every year We are cultivating excellent vegetable varieties, so when planting, we cannot just rely on acquaintances to ask about what to grow. We must learn to go to some websites to compare varieties and market prices, and then choose suitable vegetable varieties for planting according to local conditions.

2. Do a good job in anti-freeze and heat preservation measures management

After sowing or planting seedlings, heat preservation measures should be put in place before the arrival of extremely cold weather. Specifically, you can do this:

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(1) Gradually reduce the frequency and amount of watering;

(2) Mix plant ash, manure and soil and spread it to the area where vegetables are planted;

(3) Those grown in greenhouses can be insulated by installing electric heating wires in the greenhouse;

(4) Use non-drip film to cover the roots of vegetable plants.

If you have suffered from frost damage, you can take measures according to the frost damage. Generally, if the frost damage is severe, you may need to plant other vegetables. If the frost damage is not serious, you should immediately topdress with quick-acting fertilizer and spray some to inhibit evaporation. of medicine.

Warm reminder: When growing winter vegetables in greenhouses, it is common to control the temperature at 25-28°C. Most vegetables are suitable for growing in this temperature range, but you still need to pay attention. Yes, when the weather is sunny in winter, large-scale ventilation is required to prevent vegetables from being suffocated

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